Pope Leo XIV greets a girl in a wheelchair at the end of a meeting on the challenges and hopes for the future of the Peruvian people at the Plaza de Armas in Lima. (EPA Images pic)LIMA: Pope Leo XIV met six victims of clerical abuse in Peru Thursday, including some linked to the once-powerful and now-disbanded Catholic society, Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.
The US-born pope 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.
