(Vatican) "Another interview of Pope Francis - and a correction by the Vatican" was the headline at Riposte Catholique in France. "New Interview by Eugenio Scalfari with the Pope. New manipulation. New denial by Lombardi” wrote Religion en Liberdad in Spain. Catholic journalists can only shake their heads these days only in disbelief about papal "press relations". The recent "interview" with Eugenio Scalfari, the known written interviews itself, is an elusive sense of déjà vu, you do not want a priori to assume that these media "slips" of Pope Francis are planned and are intended to be.
The Catholic website La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana (NBQ) wrote in Italy: "Scalfari has relapsed. For the second time he has published a fake interview with Pope Francis. This raises the question of why the journalist chamber which is so eager in other cases, has not yet intervened to condemn this kind of journalism. "But this is at best a side of the coin. What NBQ from inappropriate respect not ventured to ask: How is it that Pope Francis granted an interview for a second time after the experience of the previous year Scalfari? Obviously, Francis was quite satisfied with the “fake” Scalfari statements attributed to him. Anyway, he is so happy to accept the same "fake" one more time.
What is the True Teaching of Pope Francis?
What actually corresponds to the actual teaching of the Argentine Pope? The officially published statements by the Vatican statements or the published interviews and phone calls in which the former Archbishop of Buenos Aires seems to feel far more in his element?
The first unconventional, rather irresponsible Interview of Francis with the Pope Eugenio was with atheist Scalfari, which was published on October 1, 2013, and printed in Osservatore Romano from full content. Without comment, it was first published on the website of the Holy See, which had given the impression that it was part of the ordinary magisterium of the Pope. Only after one and a half months and severe irritation was it finally deleted in mid-November.
The Vatican Spokesman is Forced Into Egg Dance
Last Sunday Scalfari published a new "interview" with Pope Francis. Even without knowing the content, not a few prelates in Rome were pulling their hair at the news. And with good reason. The interview came into being in the same unusual and irresponsible manner as the first. This time, though, the Vatican responded promptly with a corrective statement. However, Vatican spokesman Lombardi had a breathtaking limbo between different degrees of confirmation and denial, partial acknowledgments and partial denial, accomplishing to simply amplify what the interview already had created: to cause more confusion.
First Interview Has Resurfaced on Vatican Page
Suddenly with the publication of the second interview, the first interview has appeared again and finds itself eight months after its deletion from the website of the Vatican yet again, being put down under the "speeches" of the Pope. Who would not believe it, you can see for yourself ( here ). In the next few days of the release will the new interviews be put there with the doctrinal statements of the head of the Church? Are the papal interviews ultimately part of the official Magisterium? What is official reality, and what is real reality? The papal confusion shows its quirky side. Above all, there are creeping circles in the Vatican that support the papal reconstruction of the Church, its practice and thus insidiously, also its doctrine of belief.
Text: Giuseppe Nardi
image: Vatican.va (screenshot)
image: Vatican.va (screenshot)
Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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