Misrepresenting Pope Francis

The denizens of the journalistic depths came like piranhas to feed on the morsels of ambiguity issuing forth from a questionable translation of Pope Francis interview with Italian Jesuit newspaper La Civilta Catolica which was reproduced in the American counterpart, America magazine, a week and a half ago. We were told that there were bold changes coming down from the Vatican and that conservative Catholics (that is, actual Catholics) were in for a shock and that the Church was seen by the holy father to be "obsessed" with "talking about abortion, gays and small-minded rules". However, the media outlets, at least those interested in turning Pope Fancis into an echo chamber for modern errors relating to humanity, seemed either to not notice, completely ignore or not understand the meaning of the word "only", for the full quote from the article translation (translated by a committee of five, no less) ran thus :"We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. This is not possible. I have not spoken much about these things, and I was reprimanded for that. But when we speak about these issues, we have to talk about them in a context. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time. "So, we shouldn't "only" talk about these issues all the time. Yes, there is the matter of love of God, obedience and fidelity to Him, grace redemption, turing away from all sin, rejoicing in the salvific mission of the Church as a hospital for sinners and a museum, a living museum of saints, miracles, exorcisms, family, marriage and evangelization. Actually, if all of these things had their proper regard by society, then we would hardly have to make mention of the other issues, the issues the liberal media is desperate to twist the Church into giving assent to, and go with the flow, like a dead stick rather than standing firm like a living branch, to borrow G. K. Chesterton's vivid phrase. And just in case a clear restatement of Pope Francis' words in the interview were not enough, the very next day, September 20th, he gave a stirring denouncement of abortion in front of a large group of Catholic doctors : "In all its phases and at every age, human life is always sacred and always of quality. And not as a matter of faith, but of reason and science!"
"Every unborn child, though unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of the Lord, who even before his birth, and then as soon as he was born, experienced the rejection of the world," he said. "And every old person, even if infirm and at the end of his days, carries with him the face of Christ. They must not be thrown away!"(taken from the Catholic News Agency http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1303991.htm)The liberal media outlets were strangely silent.