Pope Francis Targeted In Fake News Attack At The Vatican

Even Pope Francis isn’t immune from fake news. He was mocked last week in a spoof interview printed on a fake front page that looked like it came from the Vatican’s official publication, L’Osservatore Romano. The ersatz news page was sent anonymously to several cardinals, bishops and monsignors as part of a strategy in the mounting opposition against the liberal pontiff by conservative Catholics, the Italian press reported. The front-page “interview” mocks the pope over his liberal sta...