Whenever your "pope" speaks, even if that is an interpretation which you are authorized to accept, you must then understand what it is that he said. Without realizing it, you are interpreting his interpretation. Thus, we all take a text and use reasonable hermeneutics to interpret it. The writer of the article is using an "encyclopedic" view of the Scriptures to understand what it is saying. With such an approach, anything may be understood. And, this is precisely where Rome went off the reservation.