VATICAN CITY
Daily Mail (UK)
By KATIE LOUISE DAVIES FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 08:08 EST, 6 February 2016
A British campaigner who said he would be outraged if the Pope did not attend meetings to protect children from sex abuse abuse in the church has left the Vatican.
Peter Saunders, who was abused by a priest as a child, was selected by Pope Francis to serve on the Vatican’s sex abuse commission in 2014.
This week the abuse campaigner, who said he had invited the Pope to a three-day meeting of the commission, told The Times it would be ‘outrageous if he didn’t attend’.
The Vatican said it was decided at a commission meeting that Saunders would take a leave of absence.
Saunders did not immediately reply to a telephone message requesting a comment on the circumstances of his departure.
It said Saunders would now ‘consider how he might best support the commission’s work’.
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