Media gets it mostly right on Pope Francis and weapons manufacturers

Published June 22, 2015 10:00pm ET



Pope Francis is no stranger to having his public remarks distorted by the media, but when the Holy Father implied this weekend that real Christians shouldn’t make or sell weapons, the press got it mostly right.

“There is an element of hypocrisy [for a Christian] to speak of peace and then manufacture weapons,” Francis said Sunday, according to three separate Italian-to-English translations obtained by the Washington Examiner’s media desk.

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