Abuse survivor David Ryan in the Vatican for his meeting with Pope Leo XIV. Photograph: Colm Flynn/EWTN News Blackrock college abuse survivor David Ryan had a private audience with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican last Monday. Speaking to RTÉ after the meeting Mr Ryan described the Pope’s empathy for his experience as “genuine”, and said “he was so sorry to hear of my pain…and for the other survivors who haven’t come forward…
