...and with all due and venerable respect for the most august office on Earth: is an interview the best venue to present a personal opinion on a matter of moral theology that is so complex that even the most brilliant and orthodox minds can hardly understand it and that inevitably causes confusion and misunderstanding, no matter how many times and how deeply it is explained?
It is just as well that the Holy See Press Office affirmed that it is "true that until now [such opinions] have not been heard with such clarity from the mouth of a Pope". Yes, that is true, indeed.
