Story highlights The meeting last week sparked controversy after Pope Francis' visit to the U.S.

The Vatican says her meeting with the Pope "should not be considered a form of support"

(CNN) The Pope's meeting with Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who spent six days in jail for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was not intended as a show of support for her cause, the Vatican said Friday.

"The Pope did not enter into the details of the situation of Mrs. Davis, and his meeting with her should not be considered a form of support of her position in all of its particular and complex aspects," Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi said in a statement issued Friday morning.

The meeting, on September 24 at the Vatican Embassy in Washington, added a political twist to the Pope's first-ever trip to the United States, with conservatives cheering and liberals puzzled.

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Davis' lawyer, Mat Staver, had said the audience lasted 10 minutes and was just between the Pope , his client and her husband. Lombardi disputed that account, saying "several dozen" people were present at the Vatican Embassy during the meeting.

"Such brief greetings occur on all papal visits and are due to the Pope's characteristic kindness and availability. The only real audience granted by the pope at the nunciature (embassy) was with one of his former students and his family," Lombardi said.

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