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Quote of the Day: Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi

Ron Ribiat

“Unfortunately, the article discredits itself by slipping into the usual mistake of superficial journalism: in order to highlight the positive aspects of Pope Francis, it throw’s Pope Benedict’s papacy into a bad light, and it does this with a shocking level of coarseness. A shame, really.”

— The Rev. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican’s chief spokesman, on the Rolling Stone cover story about Pope Francis.

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