VATICAN CITY — The Vatican communications office on Wednesday corrected the Italian transcript of Pope Francis’ comments about disgraced ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. The omission gave the impression that Francis flatly denied knowing anything about McCarrick, whereas the full comment, provided initially only in the Spanish version, makes clear he didn’t remember. In the Spanish version of the interview, Francis said he “knew nothing, obviously, nothing nothing” about McCarrick. No idea!”The initial Italian version omitted Francis’ reference to not remembering if Vigano told him about McCarrick, and only quoted Francis as saying he knew nothing about McCarrick. As a result, Francis’ claim to not remember if Vigano told him about McCarrick now amounts to his defence against such criticism.

Source: National Post May 29, 2019 08:24 UTC