00:01Pope Leo XIV once again threw himself into the crowds during an open-air Mass in Lourdes on Sunday,
00:09where he addressed the issue of sexual abuse within the church and assisted dying.
00:15Around 150,000 people attended a homily of the Supreme Pontiff,
00:20many in wheelchairs on the prairie next to Lourdes' main basilica.
00:25Pope Leo said the church must have the courage to heal the deep wounds,
00:31the acts of infidelity, and the painful deviations committed in its midst.
00:37He added, acknowledging our own fault is essential to our spiritual progress.
00:43He also blasted the legalization of medically assisted death as immoral false compassion.
00:49Lourdes, a major pilgrimage destination after the Catholic Church officially recognized visions of the Virgin Mary,
00:57reported there by a young girl in 1858, is associated with miraculous cures of the sick.
01:04It has also become a place of healing for survivors of clergy sexual abuse.
01:09Pope Leo's visit to France, a once staunchly Catholic nation,
01:13will end on Monday in the city of Metz, close to the German border.
