CulturePope Leo XIV visits Lourdes pilgrimage site

Pope Leo XIV ended his second day in France in Lourdes, praying at the Grotto of Massabielle. On Sunday, he is due to celebrate another open-air Mass and privately meet seven survivors of clerical sexual abuse. A French inquiry found that Church members had abused around 330,000 minors over seven decades.

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