Note that the same day the interview was released, Pope Francis uttered these awe-inspiring words: ” Every unborn child, though condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord . . .”
Isn’t it perhaps relevant that the Pope in that America magazine interview was using words appropriate to reach out to fellow Jesuits, who are often quite liberal? My hope is that this fact explains some of his seemingly astonishing ignorance of the real Catholic world (e.g. suggesting that our homilies are in danger of being “obsessed” with contraception) and his apparently closed-minded and uncollaborative attitude toward significant portions of the faithful (e.g. saying that he had been “reprimanded” by some pro-lifers, rather than saying more neutrally”criticized” by them, and saying he had never been a “rightwinger,” which is the language of the left)