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Gloria.TV News on the 15th of July 2014 Unfortunately For the Pope: In the introduction to his interview with Pope Francis, published last Sunday, the Roman journalist Eugenio Scalfari writes: "The …More
Gloria.TV News on the 15th of July 2014

Unfortunately For the Pope: In the introduction to his interview with Pope Francis, published last Sunday, the Roman journalist Eugenio Scalfari writes: "The fact that I am a journalist does not interest Francis at all." British Guardian Rome correspondent Lizzy Davies commented yesterday on this: “Unfortunately for the pope, however, Scalfari is in fact a journalist.”

Weird: It is weird that Francis gave a second interview to Scalfari although the same journalist had let him down in an interview last October forcing, the Vatican to publish a disclaimer. Under question Scalfari was unable to mount a convincing defence, conceding he had not bothered to take notes during the interview, let alone record it. It was very possible, he added, that – quote - "some of the pope's words I reported were not shared by Pope Francis".

The Worst: This time, the Vatican disclaimed the alleged statement of Pope Francis that there are cardinals who are pedophiles. But in its Monday edition, Eugenio Scalfari’s La Repubblica shot back saying that allegations of abuse against some Cardinals were not unknown. Like so often the paper operated with hearsay rather than with facts. Gloria.tv asks the question why the Pope keeps choosing the worst of anticlerical Italian journalism to communicate with the world.

Wrong Numbers: The Los Angeles Times was puzzled by Francis’ claim that allegedly 2% of the priests are pedophiles. The paper quotes official Vatican statements according to which it had defrocked 848 priests over the last decade and ordered 2,572 to “live a life of prayer and penance” because of abuse allegations. The paper concludes: “There are about 414,000 priests worldwide; if 2% are pedophiles, that would be more than 8,000.”
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The question remains: Why does the Pope talk to the worst of anticlerical Italian journalism? Perhaps in order to promote the abominable paper La Repubblica? Why does the Pope not use his own media to promote his message?