Pope Francis attacks ‘insinuations’ that John Paul II prowled for underage girls

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Pope defends predecessor after remarks by brother of 15-year-old girl who went missing in Rome in 1983

Pope Francis has denounced “offensive and unfounded insinuations” that his predecessor John Paul II went out at night looking for underage girls.

The pope’s comments, made during his Angelus on Sunday in St Peter’s Square, were targeted at Pietro Orlandi, whose sister Emanuela vanished at the age of 15 in June 1983 while making her way home from a flute lesson in Rome.

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