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Vatican confirms Scalfari interview was “an after-the-fact reconstruction”

Questions raised about the accuracy of the text published in La Repubblica

October 05, 2013 03:22 EST

By Catherine Harmon


 





After days of speculation about the trustworthiness of the interview between Pope Francis and Eugenio Scalfari published in La Repubblica earlier this week, the Vatican has confirmed that Scalfari “did not tape his interview with Pope Francis, nor did he take notes, so the text was an after-the-fact reconstruction.”

The day after the interview’s publication, Vatican reporter Andrea Tornielli questioned some of its details, in particular an anecdote reportedly told by Pope Francis about a mystical experience after his election as pontiff but before his acceptance of the office. Scalfari quotes the Holy Father as saying, “Before I accepted I asked if I could spend a few minutes in the room next to the one with the balcony overlooking the square.” Tornielli reports that not only is there no such room off the balcony overlooking St. Peter’s Square, but that several cardinal electors told him that Francis did not retire before his acceptance. Tornielli concluded that the interview was “not an exact word-for-word reconstruction of dialogue with Scalfari.”

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York told the National Catholic Reporter’s John Allen that Cardinal Bergoglio “never left the Sistine Chapel before accepting.”

Allen reports that Vatican spokesman Father Thomas Rosica issued a statement via email today in which he states that the Scalfari interview risked “either missing some key details or conflating various moments or events recounted during the oral interview,” as Scalfari “did not tape his interview with Pope Francis, nor did he take notes, so the text was an after-the-fact reconstruction.”
Earlier this week, Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican Press Office, emphasized to reporters that Pope Francis’ interview with Scalfari “is not a magisterial docuмent.” While he cautioned against over-interpreting the Holy Father’s “conversational” and “colloquial” statements, he did not indicate that there was anything substantively inaccurate in the text published by La Repubblica.  
 

Really? That's what they're going with — the reporter relied on memory and wasn't professional? Wow.

Well hey, just Frank being Frank, shooting the bull with the local atheist incompetent reporter. Pay those jokers no mind.

And I quote! Because why not?! I'm "interpreting" what the Vatican said in this post-modern reporting era where accurate quotes are so 2-0-1-2!

 :dancing-banana:

I won't ask how many will buy it. They'll lap it up.

Of course Pope Francis spews heresy every time he opens his mouth!!
If he didn't, there wouldn't be an army of (questionable) theologians and apologists grasping at straws to try to make his heresies align with doctrine...
For noob catholics, it's bad. They're going to be so confused about what is heretical and what isn't, they'll be going around repeating what he says and paving their road to hell being none the wiser.

No interviewer fails to take notes or record an interview.  I don't believe it.

Marsha

The article linked in the OP doesn't even address the "There is no Catholic God" statement and, from my point of view, that one is "The Big One"!  
 

If anyone believes this, I've got a bridge to sell ya.

Perhaps the Vatican is worried about having a runaway train on their hands.  

From MGM, to be release next Spring....

"A Day at the Vatican"