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1. The interview from which the film clips of Pope Francis are in the news today is actually from Late May/June 2019. ()
2. The first clip, when speaking of a "right to a family," very clearly means that parents shouldn't disown their gay children. 1/5
2. The first clip, when speaking of a "right to a family," very clearly means that parents shouldn't disown their gay children. 1/5
3. The 2nd clip, which was spliced into the (apparent) documentary clip, does NOT appear anywhere in the aired interview/transcript. But the film places the two clips together to create the appearance that PF was endorsing same sex "convivencia civil" in a very broad sense 2/5
...Either way, we have no context whatsoever for that clip – it could very well be about Amoris Laetia for all we know!
4. At 1:00:06 there is a jump in the clip in a context that makes the comment even remotely probable. The clip wasn't aired, I venture to guess, because it 3/5
4. At 1:00:06 there is a jump in the clip in a context that makes the comment even remotely probable. The clip wasn't aired, I venture to guess, because it 3/5
...was liable to be taken out of context or very easily misunderstood – likely at the request of PF or the Vatican. But that's also general speculation on my part. (Moreover, PF also spoke against the "incongruity" of same sex marriage right around the cut.) 4/5
5. So where did that clip on civil unions appear from? Seems unlikely that the Televisa station would secretly hold that clip from a long interview to spring up now. So how did the documentarian get it? Clearly he's also using it in widely deceptive framing! 5/5
Addendum: This is complete and total media failure. Journalists, Catholic and otherwise, failed to do their due diligence and have causes great scandal to many. We don't have any definitive context or pronouncements from PF at this time, what we have is an attempted media hitjob.
