please do read the article. It isn’t the Pope who said anything. It was a priest who spoke for himself.
Baloney, he spoke for the pope, unless i hear the pope fire him, discipline him, or force him disavow his opinion from that of the pope’s.
Why?
“In an editorial aired yesterday on Vatican Radio, Fr. Federico Lombardi, director of the press office of the Holy See”
He is the Press office director of the Vatican. It’s a little far out to think that in a disciplined organization like that, in the position he holds, that he is out freelancing opinions -in editorials- that are in direct oppositon to those of the pope.
If he doesn’t release something fast saying “this was my opinion, and i was wrong” or “the pope supports the American freedoms that saved the Vatican and millions of catholics from the nazis”. Then i think it’s safe to assume the pope shares his opinion.