Pope Francis says he wants to be buried in the Rome basilica of St. Mary Major, not in the grottoes of the Vatican like other popes.

The mother of the 18-year-old shooter who gunned down 19 students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School on Tuesday, spoke with the media following the massacre.

Instead, he favored extending legal protections to gay couples under what is understood in Argentina as a civil union law. It turned out, Francis’ comments were apparently taken from a May 2019 interview with Mexican broadcaster Televisa that were never broadcast. The guidance issued by the secretariat of state doesn’t address the issue of the cut quote or that it came from the Televisa interview. After the anecdote ends, the film cuts to Francis’ comments from the Televisa interview. The pope's comments about gay civil unions came from a different part of the Televisa interview and included several caveats that were not included in the film.

Pope Francis endorsed same-sex civil unions for the first time as pope while being interviewed for the feature-length documentary Francesco, which premiered Wednesday, Oct. 21 2020 at the Rome Film Festival. “What we have to have is a civil union law; that way they are legally covered,” Francis said. But a source in Mexico familiar with the interview said the original raw footage the Vatican provided to Televisa from the interview did not include the quote on civil unions. The civil union comments caused a firestorm, thrilling progressives and alarming conservatives, given that official Vatican teaching prohibits any such endorsement of homosexual unions. However, he had never come out publicly in favor of legal protections for civil unions as pope, and no pontiff before him had, either.