Agreed, but the popes have said this for a while. The shocking part to me was the “God/not a divine being”, which appears to be a mistranslation of “demiurgo”.
True enough. But to say that God is not a demiurge is rather self-evident, isn’t it? And it begs the question by assuming that only a demiurge would create de novo. (As if anyone knew.) I wonder what the point was? It’s hard to believe these were prepared remarks. It’s understandable when such things are said spontaneously.