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By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Cardinal George Pell, under fire for his handling of sexual abuse of children by priests in Australia, on Thursday acknowledged "the evil that was done" and vowed to work with survivors to enact better protection measures. Pell, who gave four days of evidence via video link to an Australian government commission, made the comments after a nearly two-hour meeting in a Rome hotel with about a dozen Australian survivors who had flown to Rome for the hearings. David Ridsdale, a survivor who alleges that in 1993 Pell tried to bribe him to keep quiet about abuse by Ridsdale's now jailed priest uncle, said survivors were satisfied that the encounter took place on "a level playing field".More...