{"id":38766,"date":"2026-02-15T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/nieuws\/it-was-the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-abuse-victim-details-papal-meeting\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T13:00:00","slug":"it-was-the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-abuse-victim-details-papal-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/explorecatholic.nl\/en\/nieuws\/it-was-the-best-thing-ive-ever-done-abuse-victim-details-papal-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was the best thing I\u2019ve ever done\u2019: Abuse victim details papal meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 2 marked a turning point in the life of David Ryan, a 61-year-old Irishman who suffered sexual abuse as a teenager. More than 40 years later, he was able to share his story face-to-face with Pope Leo XIV in the first private meeting the pontiff has held alone with a victim of abuse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/L44cr7W-f64\" title=\"Embedded content\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While the Holy Father had already met with<a href=\"https:\/\/ewtnvatican.com\/articles\/pope-leo-xiv-abuse-survivors-meeting\"> other victims of abuse<\/a>, those meetings were in groups. The meeting with Ryan was different: For almost an hour, he was able to share everything he thought and still thinks about what happened to him and about the reaction of the Catholic Church in Ireland, which he felt did not listen to him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a lovely man, and a lovely experience\u2026 Wow. I\u2019m so glad I\u2018ve done it today, I\u2019m really so glad I\u2019ve done it. I didn\u2019t hold back, I told him about the abuse and asked him, \u2018Why are these priests still doing this?\u2019\u201d Ryan told reporters in Rome who were waiting for him outside the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis sympathy, his empathy toward the survivors, myself and my family, toward my close friends\u2026 He felt this, he was sorry, and it was genuine. I knew it was genuine,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan suffered sexual abuse when he was roughly between the ages of 11 and 17 while attending Blackrock and Willow Park School in Dublin. His brother, Mark, who died at age 62, was also a victim of abuse but never revealed what had happened to him. \u201cIt ruined my life. It ruined Mark\u2019s life, and my brother is now gone,\u201d Ryan, who brought a photo of Mark to Rome, told EWTN News.<\/p>\n<p>When Ryan\u2019s story came to light in a documentary titled \u201cBlackrock Boys\u201d on RT\u00c9 radio, it shocked the nation. Following the broadcast, the Irish government commissioned a report that revealed widespread allegations of sexual abuse at hundreds of schools over several decades \u2014 a total of 2,400 cases. This was made possible by the courage of Ryan and others like him who shared their stories.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan, who felt he was not being heard by the Church, wrote to Pope Leo XIV and received a reply to meet with him, an appointment he attended with Deirdre Kenny, CEO of One in Four, an Irish charity that advises and supports adults who have suffered sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018I\u2019m so sorry for you\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>EWTN Vatican correspondent Colm Flynn spoke with Ryan after his meeting with the pope. He recounted that he told Leo XIV \u201cthat I wanted an apology, and the first thing he said to me was, \u2018David, all I can say is that I\u2019m so sorry for your pain and hurt, what your family went through, what Mark and the other survivors went through. I can feel your pain, but I don\u2019t know your pain.\u2019 And he looked me straight in the eyes and just said, \u2018I\u2019m so sorry for you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I could feel a kind of energy coming down when he told me, because I knew he meant it, and it\u2019s like a whole new experience for me. It\u2019s still going down; I still can\u2019t believe I\u2019ve been there. I thought this day would never come,\u201d he emphasized.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018I just wanted him to hear my voice, my story\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>After explaining that he wanted to express his anger to the pope and get a response from him, Ryan clarified that with the Holy Father, \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to shout and scream; there was no point in doing that. I just wanted him to hear my voice, I wanted him to hear my story, and he heard. He apologized in a way I wasn\u2019t expecting, and his empathy toward me\u2026 it was just quiet and surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I didn\u2019t hold back, I told him I had been raped three times. It\u2019s not pleasant, but many men are afraid to talk about it, and a lot of men don\u2019t cry,\u201d he said. However, he shared that in his case, he managed \u201cto talk about it, I have cried.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ryan also said the pope \u201cwas shocked to hear how many people had been abused and that the Church had hidden it for so long. I asked him why they did that, and he replied, \u2018David, I don\u2019t have an answer yet for you, but I will have an answer when I can.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018It wasn\u2019t your fault\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Ryan also told Flynn that he shared his story so that others \u201cwould want to come forward and speak out about clerical abuse, because a lot of men don\u2019t talk and keep it quiet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd as I told the pope: It wasn\u2019t my fault. And that took me a long time to admit: It wasn\u2019t my fault. He shook his head and said to me, \u2018Yes, it wasn\u2019t your fault, David.\u2019 And that really did hit me. We shook hands afterwards, and I know he understands. It was the best thing I\u2019ve ever done,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><em>This story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aciprensa.com\/noticias\/122025\/ha-sido-lo-mejor-que-he-hecho-en-mi-vida-victima-de-abusos-habla-de-su-encuentro-con-el-papa-leon-xiv\">was first published<\/a>\u00a0by ACI Prensa, the Spanish-language sister service of EWTN News. It has been translated and adapted by EWTN News English.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 2 marked a turning point in the life of David Ryan, a 61-year-old Irishman who suffered sexual abuse as a teenager. More than 40 years later, he was able to share his story face-to-face with Pope Leo XIV in the first private meeting the pontiff has held alone with a victim of abuse. 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