Evidently the whole story has been misattribution of things nobody ever said but somebody wishes they did. It’s really pretty funny.
We have a friar here, Fr. Scordo, who was a Navy chaplain for 20 years. And he is one of the funniest guys I know. He loves a joke. And I can’t help thinking that PapaFran is a little like that. At the end of the day he sits, in my imagination, with his feet up surfing the net to find out what they’re saying he said — but he never said it — today. And then he laughs with his friends.
So true!
But our world today never worries about yelling FIRE!!! in a crowed theater.
"It may not be true; but it's accurate." is the phrase that is uppermost.