Vatican: Pope Francis’ Same-Sex Civil Union Remarks Were Taken Out of Context

The Vatican is seeking to clarify comments regarding same-sex civil unions made by Pope Francis.

The comments, made in the film “Francesco” which premiered on Oct. 21 at the Rome Film Festival, were taken out of context, the Vatican’s Secretariat of State wrote in a letter to its ambassadors dated Oct. 30, according to CNN.

⛪Pope Francis’ comments were from a Mexico Televisa interview in 2019. The Vatican clarified that the comments in the film were answers to two different questions and we spliced to seem like one, leaving out context.

The letter reads, “More than a year ago, during an interview, ⛪Pope Francis answered two different questions at two different times that, in the aforementioned documentary, were edited and published as a single answer without the proper contextualization, which has led to confusion.”

As CNN reports, “The Vatican’s clarification says that the Pope was speaking about his opposition to a same-sex marriage law in Argentina ten years ago when the Pope was Archbishop of Buenos Aires.”