I’m thinking the website mangled or deliberately mistranslated one of the pope’s sermons. The problem with any top down pyramidal organization is the inability of the top guy to control how his supporting bureaucracy spreads his message. You can be sure a few wolves in the fold would not be above changing a few phrases or words to mischaracterize and mistranslate the top guy’s message in an attempt to push the organization in a direction the wolves saw fit.
I would need more evidence that the pope actually meant what the web site claims he said. Now while I think SOME(not all!) Catholics treat Mary as practically a 4th member of the Godhead(a QUADRINITY?) and I have said that before, but I don’t think that is the true position of the Catholic Church.
Reporters are ignorant of Christianity, at best; hostile, at worst.
When it comes to reporting on papal statements, I disregard everything outside the quotation marks.
While it is not the *official* teaching of the church in so many words, in practice, it is. And unofficially, there's plenty of evidence that that is exactly how they see Mary, many of which include statements made by popes themselves.