He didn’t send back an endorsement.
Actually he didn’t send back anything at all.
What his staff sent was not an endorsement of the book.
In fact it offers no commentary or evaluation of the book whatsoever.
Feel embarrassed yet?
“What his staff sent was not an endorsement of the book.”
Enjoy living in fantasy land? I guess so.
“Now Pardi has found an unlikely supporter in Pope Francis, who through his staff has written to the author praising her work. “His holiness is grateful for the thoughtful gesture and for the feelings which it evoked, hoping for an always more fruitful activity in the service of young generations and the spread of genuine human and Christian values,” wrote Peter B Wells, a senior official at the Vatican secretariat of state.”
It was the equivalent of getting an issue of Penthouse and responding, “Isn’t the human body wonderful?”