JAKE LAHUT,KAYLA EPSTEIN,DARREN SAMUELSOHN  May 4, 2022 3:57 PM

Pope Francis recently held a Zoom call with Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill.

Francis said he told the pro-war church leader to avoid becoming "Putin's altar boy."Kirill's outspoken support of Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine has angered other church leaders.

https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/pope-francis-says-he-warned-the-head-of-the-russian-church-not-to-become-putins-altar/kpfb5ve

POPE FRANCIS HAS NEVER USED "PUTIN'S ALTAR BOY" PHRASE IN HIS CONVERSATION WITH PATRIARCH KIRILL: 

On March 16, 2022, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia had an online talk with Pope Francis of Rome, which was focused on the situation in Ukraine.

Metropolitan Hilarion noted that after the video meeting, the press service of the Holy See quite correctly presented the information about the talk between the Primates of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.

http://www.patriarchia.ru/en/db/text/5925035.html

“As a witness and participant in that conversation, I do remember that that the atmosphere was very friendly, that there was no kind of disagreement between the Pope and the Patriarch and no kind of discontent on this or that side. It was a brotherly talk. It is possible though that the sides kept their views”, the hierarch concluded.

THUS, THE IMPOLITE PHRASE WAS USED LATER IN THE INTERVIEW THAT MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE.