His comments were widely seen as a reference to gay couples.
Which is media code for: "in point of fact, he made no such reference whatever, but we wish that he did, so we're just going to imply that he did."
Is it possible, instead, that for every "gay couple" in Europe there are a 100 or more couples consisting of a man and a woman who are living together without benefit of marriage, who have had multiple children by different partners, who are no longer together but who are nominally raising a mutual child, etc.?
That maybe his core comments were about the 99% of cases and not just focused solely on the 1% of cases?
Some people just love bashing the church. I’ll bet most didn’t even read the article, let alone comprehend the spin in it.