La Stampa

Francis brought him to Rome on September 21st, 2013, and became secretary for seminaries for the Congregation for the Clergy.

Asked in 2014 by La Stampa, an Italian Catholic news outlet, about, uh, James Martin-type seminarians and support of, of the, uh, we'll call the James Martin culture, Monsignor Patron Wong replied evasively that, "Sexual maturity is one component of broader personal maturity.

We cannot judge the state or existence in which a person comes before us, and it is important not to be rigid in judging the people going through this process, but rather to help them understand and grow." He concluded that seminary is an open and dynamic process.

The headline La Stampa chose was revealing.

"On James Martin types accompany personal maturity." [chuckles] The interview wasn't an isolated comment.

In 2016, he told LaStampa.it again that the lifestyle in question isn't the central interpretive question about admitting seminarians.

Yesterday, so yesterday, three days later, I got a message on Instagram from an Italian publication with one of my videos that I'd taken in Antarctica talking about what I do and asked if they could... republish it, reshare it.

Can I just jump in here? The publication was La Stampa, which is a big national Italian newspaper.

Which I

didn't know, of