He seems to have actually said this, “the Church does not grow by proselytism.”
Isn’t that an admission he is not interested in saving souls? His focus is growing the Church? He sounds to me only like someone wanting to bring dues-paying members into a club.
He can be defended on many of his pronouncements by saying he speaks ambiguously and unclearly. Defending him on this basis is absolving the English king of all responsibility for the death of Thomas a Becket. Surely it’s his duty as head of a world wide organization to speak clearly or not at all. But “who are we to judge,” right?
I will pray for his conversion and salvation.
It would be helpful if he were clearer about the terms he uses. He seems to be equating “proselytism” with something closer to what we would call in American English a “recruiting pitch” or a “sales pitch”.