You are correct and the clarification is helpful but the fact remains...the progressives and homosex endorsers have their flawed but self-serving take on the subject and are running with it — claiming it as absolution and even endorsement — undeservedly giving Francis MFP (Most Favored Pope) status among these unrepentant sinners. Satan can use this situation to do great damage to the Church as was done with the pederasty scandals. Already stories abound about active homosexuals being allowed back into the priesthood. It is essential that the pope in the future carefully temper remarks when speaking to general audiences or refuse q&A sessions altogether. We don’t need the problems.
I think more or less the Pope answered this question while flying back from Brazil and having done this very big trip, he was tired and he should have rested and then and only then take on once rested this loaded question.
Unfortunately, the media hates the Church and will do anything (absolutely anything) to place Her in a bad light and, if possible, destroy Her.
They will twist and misstate whatever the Pope says. If necessary, they will make stuff up. Pope Francis cannot speak carefully enough to avoid this, no matter what he says and no matter how rested he is.