Pope Leo’s new line on ‘vulnerability’
In a speech last week, Pope Leo XIV appeared to signal a change in how the Church should think about adult victims of abuse.
The issues surround the sexual abuse of adults in the Church have been among the most prominent and contentious areas of canonical reform in the years following the scandal of the late former cardinal Theodore McCarrick.
In 2019, Pope Francis significantly broadened the definition of “vulnerability” used to determine if…