Pope Leo XIV privately apologizes to Blackrock College abuse survivor David Ryan

David Ryan and his brother Mark suffered abuse by Spiritan clerics at Blackrock College in the 1970s; Mark died suddenly in 2023, and hundreds of other survivors have come forward.

In a February audience at the Vatican, Pope Leo XIV met privately with David Ryan, an Irish survivor of clerical abuse at Blackrock College in Dublin — a meeting that places the Catholic Church's long reckoning with institutional harm into intimate, human relief. Ryan, who carried a photograph of his late brother Mark and questions accumulated over decades, became the first person to sit alone with this pontiff as a survivor, not a delegation. The encounter speaks to something older than policy or inquiry: the need of the wounded to be heard by those who hold the weight of the institution that

Pope Leo XIV privately apologizes to Blackrock College abuse survivor David Ryan

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