David Ridsdale says group due to meet with the cardinal will be ‘diplomatic and dignified’ as Vatican stays silent on request for audience with Pope Cardinal George Pell will meet with victims of child sex abuse at a private assembly in Rome,just hours after stepping down from the witness box of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse. After more than 16 hours of at times combative questioning before the commission over what he knew of abuse within the Catholic church, Pell will sit down with some of the victims of that abuse at 11.30am, and local time,in Rome.
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Source: theguardian.com