In a preface to a new book of interviews, Pope Francis outlined his approach to speaking with journalists, explaining that he thinks interviews should be like a conversation and this is why he doesn’t prepare answers in advance.
“For me interviews are a dialogue, not a lesson,” the Pope wrote.
“I do not prepare for this,” he said, stating that he usually declines to read the questions when they are sent in advance, instead opting to answer organically, as he would in an actual conversation.
“Yes, I am still afraid of being interpreted badly,” he clarified, while adding that as a pastor, it’s a risk he’s willing to take.
“Everything that I do has pastoral value, in one way or in another,” he said. “If I did not trust this, I would not allow interviews: for me it is clear. It's a manner of communicating my ministry.”

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/pope-francis-on-why-he-gives-interviews-36223

Francis likes to "wing" it. Open mouth; insert foot.

... preferably someone else's. *blech*

Do you consider him to be a Pope?

Oh he surely does, and with a vengeance; however, he's at least less inconsistent and incoherent that the "cardboard pope" crowd.

I smell saucy goose...

I think that Matthew explained it very well when he said that the Pope is the visible head of the Catholic Church.  

That is true for those who hold that the Conciliar entity is the Catholic Church. It is left to a future time to determine if he was a pope indeed,  when the Church has been unbound from the evil which holds back Her hand of Justice.

I think that Matthew explained it very well when he said that the Pope is the visible head of the Catholic Church.  

1. That ain't Matthew
2. What does that explain?
 1. How?

Might want to chew that one over a bit more ma'am; simplicity is a virtue, but being simplistic is not.

My thinking was since God allowed this evil, His allowing it is good because He will indeed make something so great resulting from the evil.  So very great because the evil is so very evil, this is my point in saying what I said, hopefully, I made myself clear this time.  
In other words, He is allowing this evil so when He does make lemonade out of the lemon it will be so sweet that no one will resist it and they will see at last the power of God and His love for His Mother.  That will be when the Church will rise again and have total respect from the world.  Otherwise, He would never have permitted this crisis in the first place.  

That was Matthew in his original rules of the forum. He stated clearly that the Church was founded by Christ. There is a visible head of the Catholic Church who is the Pope in Rome.

Never mind; more fool me for asking.