[ebb tide]

First, the statement against "proselytism" was not a direct quote, it was in the first notorious Scalfari "interview" that Scalfari admitted did not have a single direct quote in it.

Yet, the Pope reviewed the interview and allowed it to be posted on the official Vatican website; where it remained for weeks, until somebody with an ounce of Catholicism had the sense to remove it.

[BlatherNaut]

The Scalfari Magisterium of Pope Francis — Vatican Publishing House to Release Pope Interview Book

“...Not a few Catholics have denied so far, that the interviews were part of the papal Magisterium. Pope Francis seems to have always seen it differently. Since the Osservatore Romano has reprinted the interviews and even published them on the website of the Holy See as parts of the papal magisterium, but they were again withdrawn and re-released, there can hardly be any doubt, that Pope Francis according to the collected output of the Vatican publishing house of the statements, the form, the rapid and controversial doctrinal documents, indeed indicates their authenticity as statements of his Magisterium....”

http://eponymousflower.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-scalfari-magisterium-of-pope.html

[piusv]

And Francis never confirmed that the quote was inaccurate.