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No more interviews,.....Write everything down in one language,.....Have team proofread it and make sure it meets Catholic dogma before releasing. Problem solved.

But, that presumes that the pope would want to be careful and not release statements that contradict Catholic dogma. I see no evidence whatsoever that this is the case, and all these interviews actually indicate the opposite to me. After the last one all the Franciscan apologists came out to nuance many of his more egregious comments and show how they could, if you squinted just right, and interpreted this word with an archaic meaning from the Middle Ages, make something almost, but not quite, exactly unlike Catholicism with them. And then what does the pope do? He doubles down on it and gives another whopper of an interview for them to try to dance around. Does that sound like somebody who is just being misinterpreted, or is misspeaking? Not to me. I think he means just what he is saying, and all of the apologists are just fooling themselves and all of us.

that presumes that the pope would want to be careful and not release statements that contradict Catholic dogma

I thought that it was impossible for a pope to contradict Catholic dogma?

But, that presumes that the pope would want to be careful and not release statements that contradict Catholic dogma. I see no evidence whatsoever that this is the case, and all these interviews actually indicate the opposite to me. After the last one all the Franciscan apologists came out to nuance many of his more egregious comments and show how they could, if you squinted just right, and interpreted this word with an archaic meaning from the Middle Ages, make something almost, but not quite, exactly unlike Catholicism with them. And then what does the pope do? He doubles down on it and gives another whopper of an interview for them to try to dance around. Does that sound like somebody who is just being misinterpreted, or is misspeaking? Not to me. I think he means just what he is saying, and all of the apologists are just fooling themselves and all of us.

Refreshing honest comment. I think Francis is misinterpreted by both sides, but he is clearly unlike the typical TRCs (traditional RCs) i see doing most of the interpreting of their Interpreter.