Well, I certainly don’t want ANYBODY to do that, but it seems to me that as the infallible “vicar of Christ” he certainly could be a little more biblically adamant instead of leaving it so vague and open to conjecture by all levels of intelligence!!!
I do wonder whether he has a naive view of the media. The media people cetainly have their own agenda; and they certainly are not self-correcting. So if you help them out inadvertently with something ambiguous, something the least bit tentative or awkward, they will get their teeth into it and pull it into shreds in 5 directions, then sew it together in a different shape and make a headline out of it.
Yes, I do think he's naive about his own communication problems. And that can do real damage.