The liberal media continue to have a field day with Pope Francis’s unconfirmed remarks to a Chilean victim of priestly sexual abuse.

Following a visit with Pope Francis, Juan Carlos Cruz, a former Catholic seminarian and current Episcopalian who was abused in the 1980s, beginning at age 17, by a homosexual priest in Chile, revealed that the Pope told him “that you are gay does not matter. God made you like that and he loves you like that and it doesn't matter to me.”

While the Pope’s alleged words could be interpreted in a way consistent with classic Catholic teaching that God and the Church “hate the sin, but love the sinner” (and Cruz himself subsequently told the Philadelphia Inquirer that he does not interpret the Pope’s words as portending a change in Church teaching), the preferred interpretation by the liberal media is decidedly that the Pope and the Catholic Church now essentially both “love the sin, and love the sinner.”

Perhaps the most illustrative example of the preferred liberal “sea change” take on the Pope’s remarks was at Telemundo, the Spanish-language sister network to NBC. There, a thoroughly one-sided report on Cruz’s neither Vatican confirmed nor denied papal revelation framed the Pope’s alleged remarks as an endorsement of the gay lifestyle, one that will ‘shake’ core Catholic beliefs about the structure and function of human sexuality.

Following the report, the entire four-member cast of Telemundo’s morning show, Un Nuevo Día, proceeded to herald the ‘pro-Gay’ Pope.

MARCO ANTONIO REGIL, HOST, UN NUEVO DÍA : That is how God made you. There is nothing wrong with your homosexuality. I believe Pope Francis is taking the same approach he has had since starting. He is a Pope who is centered on love. RASHEL DÍAZ, HOST, UN NUEVO DÍA: Correct. REGIL: He is centered on compassion. To me, this Pope Francis is very aligned with what is the essence of religion and Christianity. To want to be Christocentric is to be a being centered on love, compassion, and inclusion. Who am I to judge? It is something he had previously mentioned. The Chilean, Juan Carlos Cruz, who for years was sexually abused by a priest, visited the Vatican and for three days he privately met with the Supreme Pontiff. DÍAZ: According to Cruz, Pope Francis told him last April that God had made him a homosexual and that his sexuality does not matter. The Pope’s words have generated hate, as we have heard, great controversy both inside and outside the heart of the Catholic Church. It is obvious the controversy is going to happen, because they have always been very strict with these thoughts.

Fellow host Adamari López went on to opine that the Pope’s alleged words “don’t jibe with the policy of the Catholic Church”, while host Héctor Sandarti took the opportunity to call on the Pope to “convoke a new Vatican Council to once again modernize the Church.”

Getting to the heart of his take on the matter, host Marco Antonio Regil, who prefaced his analysis by saying that as a kid he had “done his first communion” and “studied and read the Bible”, declared that Christ had not judged a woman who had been presented before Him for stoning after being caught in the act of adultery. However, Regil clearly forgot and omitted from his analysis that in that same passage, after her would-be executors left, Christ clearly admonished that same woman to “go and sin no more.”

RASHEL DIAZ: Remember that a lot of these reluctant attitudes to welcome everyone is what had made a lot of people distance themselves from the Church, and Pope Francis’ primary task since day one has been the complete opposite… MARCO ANTONIO REGIL: Come on over here! DÍAZ: …attracting everyone, towards that love of God. REGIL: This is what I get out of it. RASHEL DÍAZ: Me, too. REGIL: When I was a kid I did my first communion, I studied and read the Bible, I was an altar server and everything. I will always remember the Bible passage where Christ doesn’t permit them to stone a woman for being a prostitute. DIAZ: Correct, correct. REGIL: and he loves and hugs her. He does not say you are right or you are wrong. He just focuses on love, and I think Pope Francis is doing the same thing. HÉCTOR SANDARTI: Like he says, who am I to judge? DIAZ: One hundred percent. REGIL: Who are we? Our mission in life is to love, not to judge and look for what is right or wrong. So for that, cheers to Pope Francis!

It evidently did not occur to either reporter Gabriel Huerta or any of the hosts on Telemundo that, as St. Francis College philosophy professor Fr. John Perricone points out, “Hating the disease never means hating the patient. In fact, the most noble act of love is to comfort the afflicted by helping to cure his disease.”

Below is the complete transcript to the above-referenced segment, as aired on Telemundo’s Un Nuevo Día morning show on May 22, 2018: