That is true, but there was no clarification later.
I do think that His Holiness does not get credit for his bubbly Latino personality, when people criticize his occasional rashness or ability to provide leftwing-pleasing soundbites inside a solid larger context. But when some light-hearted remark gets distorted so systematically, and there is no correction from Rome, the distortion effectively becomes the genuine statement.
I am at the point where I don’t feel like paying attention to anything the media says about him.