Quote: (03-29-2018 09:52 PM)Paracelsus Wrote:
That said, the Vatican says Frankie didn't say it.
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On Thursday the Holy See stated that a reported interview between Pope Francis and an Italian journalist, which claims the Pope denied the existence of hell, should not be considered an accurate depiction of Francis’ words, but the author’s own “reconstruction.”
A recent meeting between Pope Francis and Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, 93, was a “private meeting for the occasion of Easter, however without giving him any interview,” the March 29 communique stated.
“What is reported by the author in today’s article is the result of his reconstruction, in which the literal words pronounced by the Pope are not quoted. No quotation of the aforementioned article must therefore be considered as a faithful transcription of the words of the Holy Father.”
Scalfari, a self-proclaimed atheist, is the founder and former editor of Italian leftist newspaper La Repubblica. In an article published on the site March 29, Scalfari claims that Pope Francis told him, “hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of the souls of sinners exists.”
Scalfari’s fifth meeting with Pope Francis, it is not the first time he has misrepresented the Pope’s words following a private audience.
In November 2013, following intense controversy over quotes the journalist had attributed to Francis, Scalfari admitted that at least some of the words he had published a month prior “were not shared by the Pope himself.”
In a meeting with the journalists of the Foreign Press Association of Rome in 2013, Scalfari maintained that all his interviews have been conducted without a recording device, nor taking notes while the person is speaking.
Fucking media.
This is modern liberal Rome in action. You throw out a radical statement, then partially walk it back and give the antipope plausible deniability without ever actually denying it. Notice, there's no denial at all. He's saying he was misquoted but he's not denying the heresy being communicated.
But now the idea is out there and the liberal faction will run with it.
There was a time that, when misquotes like this would occur (and it happens fairly often), the Pope would call the statement an outright lie and reaffirm the Church's position on the matter in question. The reporter might be excommunicated.
What can we expect from an antipope who gives the Medal of Honor to a Dutch pro-abortion activist - Lilianne Ploumen.