[Marchmain]

...responded in a communication, according to the nun...

So how do we know what he really said or is it her interpretation. I’ve a hard time the pope would use the term girls.

[ebb tide]

I’ve a hard time the pope would use the term girls.

I'm not surprised you do. I, however, find it very easy to do so:

Pope Francis calls woman with sex-change operation a ‘man’ and calls partners ‘married’