Cardinal George Pell, Pope Francis’ chief financial adviser and Australia's most senior Catholic, is the highest-ranking Vatican official to ever be charged in the church’s long-running sexual abuse scandal.

Jesus “has not called you to become ‘princes’ in the church,” the pope said, but “to serve like him and with him.”

The pope's words can be read as an answer to those who hope his pontificate may end soon.

Pope Francis encouraged Cardinal Lacroix and the bishops from Quebec to be a missionary church, “a church that goes out, reaches out to people.”

The war has “caused a grave humanitarian crisis that has left half of the country’s population, around 7.3 million people, hungry every day."

This was the pope and chancellor's sixth meeting.