The Catholic Church Is Back
Sixteen years after a Vatican cardinal dismissed the abuse crisis as “petty gossip,” Pope Leo XIV sat with survivors at Lourdes. Benedict and Francis made the American pope possible.
CHRISTOPHER HALE
OCT 4
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The Catholic Church Is Back
Sixteen years after a Vatican cardinal dismissed the abuse crisis as “petty gossip,” Pope Leo XIV sat with survivors at Lourdes. Benedict and Francis made the American pope possible.
