Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis celebrates her release from the Carter County Detention center in Grayson, Kentucky in a September 8, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Chris Tilley/Files
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis' meeting last week with an American woman at the centre of a row over gay marriage was not something he had sought and should not be seen as an endorsement of her views, the Vatican said on Friday.
One Vatican official said there was "a sense of regret" that the pope had ever seen Kim Davis, a Kentucky county clerk who went to jail in September for refusing to honour a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and issue same-sex marriage licenses.
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