During the second day of his historic visit to Argentina, Pope Leo XIV met privately with five survivors of clerical sexual abuse. These meetings, which took place in Buenos Aires on Monday, were part of a series of discussions planned between the pope and victims throughout his 12-day tour of Latin America. The Vatican stated that during these closed-door sessions, Leo listened attentively to the survivors' testimonies and proposals for healing within the Church. These meetings follow a historic open-air mass attended by an estimated 2.5 million people on Avenida del Libertador in Buenos Aires, marking the country's first papal liturgy in nearly four decades. The Pope's initiative to meet with survivors aims to express his solidarity with those who have suffered, build healing paths, and ensure a safe and spiritually healthy environment within the Church. Throughout his career, Leo has consistently met with survivors during foreign visits as part of an effort to repair global relations and restore the Catholic Church's credibility, which has been tarnished by lawsuits, widespread sexual abuse, and cover-ups over the past three decades. Although tracking clergy abuse cases globally is challenging, a recent independent inquiry estimated that there were approximately 216,000 victims of French Catholic Church clergy alone between 1950 and 2020. The meetings with survivors in Argentina are part of Pope Leo XIV's three-country tour, which began in Uruguay and will conclude in Peru. This is the first papal visit to Argentina since Pope John Paul II's trip in 1987.