LIMA ¨C Pope Leo XIV met six victims of clerical abuse in Peru on Thursday, including some linked to the once-powerful and now-disbanded Catholic society, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.
The U.S.-born?pope, who also holds Peruvian citizenship,?is on a nostalgic return to the nation he calls his ¡°homeland,¡± and knows the abuse scandal well from the nearly two decades he worked in Peru as a missionary and bishop.
Leo spent over an hour with the victims, meeting ¡°each person individually, listening to their stories of suffering and their pain,¡± and ¡°thanked them for their invaluable testimony,¡± the Vatican said.
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