In an interview with RTE news Friday, Varadkar said he hoped to talk to the pope about issues including clerical sex abuse and the exclusion of the LGBT community from the church. Varadkar had a brief meeting with the pope following his more public remarks Saturday. His spokesman told the Irish Times that he "said to the pope that there are huge numbers of people here who have faith in their heart but who feel excluded and alienated from the church because of what happened."