But here's the h** of it. He's so ambiguous that people can and will take it that way, and he won't do a thing to correct that.
I just saw a YouTube of a liberal talking head named David Pakman on "Ring of Fire," which is a PBS-related radio news and opinion thing. (Don't know much about him, he seems like a male Rachel Maddow.) He was discussing whether it's really "news" and whether it really "changed anything" when Pope Francis told Juan Carlos Cruz, the Chilean abuse victim, that "gay" is not a problem "because God made you like this and God loves you like this, and I don't care, the pope loves you, you have to learn to be happy with who you are."
OK, found it, here it is: Pope says "God made you like this (Pakman video)"
The upshot was, Pakman says this is a nothingburger because what the pope undoubtedly means is "God created everyone and God loves everyone blah-blah-blah" but it doesn't change the bottom line, which is that if you DO gay sex you'll go to hell forever.
Now, you and I know that ambiguity is always the devil's best friend. No LGBT agenda-pusher ever says, "Hey, I get horny and I have this crazy drive to sodomize another man up the --- or be sodomized up the--- " you know. No, it's always like, "Marriage EQUALITY" and "Love equals LOOOOVE." "It's who I AM and who I LOVE."
And Pope Francis always advances his point, not by clear explanation but by sly subversion. It's all obscure footnotes, stage-whispers, off-the-cuff remarks, hugs and hints and supposedly private conversations that get leaked--- a kind of verbal legerdemain.
It's almost worse than on-the-nose false doctrine, because you can nail false doctrine. What's much harder to nail is, "Maybe you could construe it this way, or maybe what he really meant to say is.."
Slippery devil, he is.
Vatican II was totally designed and intended by Archbishop Bugnini (Secretary of the Council, twice dismissed for cause, and later exiled when his Freemason credentials were discovered) and his Masonic Protestant cohorts, to be ambiguous, so that they could later implement the documents in a heterodox way, while at the same time they would tell the faithful: “oh, but we mean this to be interpreted in an orthodox way.”
Pope Francis is but the poisonous fruit of the poisonous tree that is and was Vatican II. Pope Benedict the XVI is a coward, who, while perhaps the worst pope in Church history for reason of his surrender to the “Pink Mafia” that runs the Vatican, is likely still the legitimate pope - since his supposed “resignation” was done under fear, and in grave error (his attempt to bifurcate the papacy), which thus violates Canon 188.
Vatican II has all but destroyed the Church. How much more must happen before faithful Catholics quit being blind, dumb and lazy, and return to the traditional Mass of Saint Pope Pius V - who codified it at the Council of Trent, and stated in his papal bull (constitution) ‘Quo Primum’ that the Tridentine Rite is the Mass to be said in perpetuity, and that any who attempted to change it would be held in anathema, suffering the wrath of Sts. peter and Paul.
Notwithstanding the “Novus Ordo Mass” of Bugnini, the Mass for all time is still the only legitimate Mass. The NO, while possibly valid (depending on the intent of the priest - if he truly is a priest, since Vatican II also changed the right of Ordination) is nevertheless illicit, b/c it violates Quo Primum.
“Pope” Francis may think his pronouncements, his dictates, and he himself the “magisterium” of the Church - but in habit of speech and temperament, he is an anti-pope and a heretic.