Mr Seewald, who interviewed Pope Benedict over the course of six days this summer, asked him if it weren't "madness" for the Vatican to forbid a high-risk population to use condoms.
She recalled the same painful memory when I interviewed Pope in 2013.
This is not possible...it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time," the Pope said when interviewed last month.
Mr. Pope met the governor back when Mr. Spitzer clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Robert W. Sweet and interviewed Mr. Pope for a clerking job in the office.
Clay Shirky, the pope of openness, was interviewed by Rusbridger on Sunday morning, and even a dinosaur like me who thinks this piece should be 5,000 words long and written in dactylic hexameters found him persuasive.
In this latest interview, with Jennifer Senior at New York magazine, the conservative, devoutly Catholic justice known for his horrifically anti-gay screeds responded to a question about Pope Francis' interview in which the pontiff said Catholic Church leaders are too "obsessed" with gay marriage and abortion.
After accompanying President Roosevelt to Yalt a he went to Moscow for some talks with Marshal Stalin and then to Rome to interview Pope Pius XII.
Justice Scalia said he had "no other alternative" but to pick a new Pope himself after reading what he called a "disturbing" interview with Pope Francis today: "The Pope said he doesn't want to speak out against abortion and gay marriage.
"He held beautiful sermons and wrote beautifully, but the details he left to his staff," said Mr. Burger, who interviewed the future pope several times before he went to Rome.
The pope's interview caused an immediate sensation, and I spent the day interviewing sources and gathering reaction.
The pope's interview did not change church doctrine or policies, but it instantly changed its tone.
