Pope pledges action on clergy child abuse in meeting with French survivors

Head of the Roman Catholic Church holds 'emotional' two-hour meeting with seven abuse victims in French town of Lourdes.

Pontiff also uses visit to Catholic shrine at Lourdes to criticise assisted dying as ‘false compassion’ The pope has called on the Catholic church to heal “deep wounds” and “painful errors”, before a meeting survivors of child sexual abuse as he continues his four-day visit to…