Ambassador: No instructions to raise Royal Commission with the Pope…

AUSTRALIA
ABC – Mornings with Jon Faine

Monday morning, and host Jon Faine speaks to Australia’s new Ambassador to the Holy See, John McCarthy QC. His Excellency says he has not been asked to raise the Royal Commission into child sexual abuse with the Pope, but he would respond to any questions during his next audience with the Holy Father.

He says the commission’s terms of reference have not been settled, and he wouldn’t be expected to speculate to the Holy See.

“I certainly have not been instructed by the Australian Government, or indeed, anyone on behalf of the Government, to take these matters, which are of specific reference at the moment to Australia to any of the organs of the Holy See or the Holy Father,” he says.

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