There’s the problem with this Pope. Someone always needs to come forward after the fact and make excuses for what he’s said, when it’s become clear he knows how his remarks will be interpreted and lets fly with that knowledge. Hence, I refuse to accept the excuses and “interpretations.”
The leader of the Catholic denomination’s message does get out, the later “explanations” are for this type of audience and only we see it, the media and the democrat voting Catholics see the real message from his statements.