Account at odds with that of survivors who travelled to Italy to observe Cardinal George Pell’s testimony on clerical abusePope Francis did not receive a request from Australian sexual abuse survivors to meet him while they were in Rome for Cardinal George Pell’s testimony on clerical abuse,the Vatican’s chief spokesman has said. No formal request for a assembly between the pontiff and the Australian group reached the Vatican’s secretariat of state or the pope’s secretaries, Federico Lombardi told journalists on Friday.
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Source: theguardian.com