Snopes is working overtime to show that the new pope never said all those things he is suddenly being credited with. So far, they all seem to be in the direction of making him appear anti-Trump in a very blunt and strong way. Making up quotes is a type of bearing false witness, and starts to drift into violating the Second Commandment. It's a kind of forgery.
I suggest we wait on this and see what he has to say for himself. He may largely agree with the sentiment and have just not said it in quite the way he is quoted. But it's a dangerous game to play.
Because anyone can play.
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The first pope with an extensive social-media history and lots of English-language writings, interviews, and transcripts of speaking.
"Bob _never_ said (x)" is a very difficult thing to prove.
That typically isn't what Snopes says though. They follow the very reasonable guideline that if the quoted material can not be found largely verbatim on a piece of paper with his signature on it, in some sort of official document, or reported in a reasonably reputable media source after a reasonable search, it's not proven to be his words.
In some cases they are even able to find the original source of fake material, as well.
I have seen Snopes shading words and playing the "if he meant this then..." game with statements by politicians but they seem to, at least for now, be playing it pretty straight with Leo XIV. They've dinged fake quotes from both sides.
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