Pope Leo XIV says there should be no tolerance for abuse of any kind in Catholic Church

Pope Leo XIV has said there should be no tol­er­ance in the Catholic Church for any type of abuse – sex­u­al, spir­i­tu­al or abuse of au­thor­i­ty — and called for “trans­par­ent process­es” to cre­ate a cul­ture of pre­ven­tion across the church.

Leo made his first pub­lic com­ments about the cler­gy sex abuse scan­dal in a writ­ten mes­sage to a Pe­ru­vian jour­nal­ist who doc­u­ment­ed a par­tic­u­lar­ly egre­gious case of abuse and fi­nan­cial cor­rup­tion in a Pe­ru­vian-based Catholic move­ment, the So­dal­i­tium Chris­tianae Vi­tae.

The mes­sage was read out loud on Fri­day night in Li­ma dur­ing a per­for­mance of a play based on the So­dal­i­tium scan­dal and the work of the jour­nal­ist, Pao­la Ugaz.