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Pope Leo XIV Calls for Zero Tolerance of Abuse and Hails Journalists’ Role

He underlined the necessity of free journalism for institutional accountability.

Pope Leo XIV presides over the mass for the Jubilee of Sport in The Vatican on June 15, 2025.
A portrait of journalist Paola Ugaz taken in Lima, Peru, in January 2021.
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Overview

  • In a message read at a performance of the play “Proyecto Ugaz” in Lima on June 20, Pope Leo XIV urged a Church-wide culture of prevention that tolerates no form of abuse.
  • He praised Peruvian journalists like Paola Ugaz for exposing scandals in the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae and called free, ethical reporting essential to truth and reparation.
  • The pope cited Pope Francis’s 2018 letter committing the Church to protect minors and vulnerable adults as a guiding framework for his reform agenda.
  • Survivors credit Leo with organizing a key meeting that prompted the Vatican’s investigation and the January dissolution of the Sodalitium by Pope Francis.
  • His past tenure as Bishop Robert Prevost in Chicago and Peru is under renewed examination as he advocates for transparency in handling abuse allegations.