ROME
Huffington Post
By Eoin Blackwell
Survivors of sex abuse committed by Catholic clergy have contacted Pope Francis to ask for a meeting to discuss protecting children, as Cardinal George Pell begins his fourth day of evidence to a Royal Commission.
During the first hour of Thursday’s hearing, Pell attempted to wind back his earlier statement that abuse committed by paedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale was a “sad story and it wasn’t of much interest to me”.
Pell has already agreed to meet with survivors of clerical sexual abuse, but victims have said they lost faith in him following his second day in the witness box, and began a push to meet the Pope.
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