At Lourdes on September 27 — the same day he met privately with French survivors of abuse in the Church — Pope Leo XIV said conversion must begin with the Church herself. She must have the courage, he preached, to place herself under the Lord's purifying gaze and recognize her own faults, so that deep wounds and painful errors can be healed.
In Lourdes, Olivier Mardi gave Pope Leo XIV a letter in the name of the Liberated Voices of Touraine. After years of making heard the words of the former Little Singers of Touraine victims of sexual violence, the collective now wants to act on prevention and accompaniment.