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Pope Leo Holds First Meeting With Abuse Survivors' Group

The Vatican confirmed that Pope Leo had an audience the ECA without saying what was discussed (Credit: AFP)

Pope Leo XIV held his first meeting Monday with a group of survivors of sexual abuse by priests, with one participant describing it as a "free-flowing" discussion about what the Church should do.

"Our goal was to establish a relationship with him and to get a commitment to ongoing discussion, and he was open to both," Tim Law, co-founder of the US-based Ending Clergy Abuse (ECA), told AFP afterwards.

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