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Pope Leo XIV visits Lourdes as abuse survivors meeting is scheduled
The Pope prayed at the Grotto of Massabielle after leaving Paris, with an open-air Mass and private meeting with seven survivors due on Sunday.
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Pope Leo XIV prayed at the Grotto of Massabielle in Lourdes after leaving Paris, ending his second day in France, France 24 International reported. Lourdes is a major Catholic pilgrimage site.
Leo is the third pope reported to have visited Lourdes, after John Paul II and Benedict XVI.
His programme for Sunday includes an open-air Mass and a private meeting with seven survivors of clerical sexual abuse. The supplied report does not confirm whether either event took place.
France 24 also reported that a French inquiry found Church members had abused around 330,000 people as minors over seven decades.
