Goa, Jan. 11 -- Pope Leo XIV stressed the im-portance of listening to victims of clerical sex abuse during a meeting with car-dinals from around the world this week, according to comments released on Saturday.In a speech conclud-ing the two-day, closed-door consistory, the Pope said the abuse of children and vulnerable adults by priests was still a 'wound' in the Catholic Church.

"Listening is profoundly important," Leo said, according to a Vatican transcript, adding: "We cannot close our eyes or our hearts." He noted that abuse was not a specific topic for discussion during the consistory, his first since taking over as head of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics in May following the death of Pope Francis. But he said he wanted to raise i...