On this advent, a Papal Denial of personhood has a pastoral dimension.

 The Jesuit denial of personhood in the womb has long been established, as this article from 2011 shows.  But this is NOT church teaching.  The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2270-2274, clearly states that the personhood of the unborn is not in dispute.

And during Advent, this takes on a particularly pastoral meaning as we await the Feast of the Nativity- for Jesus was God before he was born- Jesus, the 2nd person of the trinity, the Bible tells us was God Even Before Conception!

So imagine the failure of pastoral protection implied by a Pope claiming that the personhood of the unborn is debatable, DURING ADVENT.  This is a scandal beyond the weak "this is wrong" language of the question- for it attacks the divinity of Jesus Christ himself.

But that's what the Jesuits have come to.  A papal denial of the personhood of the second part of the trinity.

I'm sure I'm wrong in some way, and hopefully one of my readers will tell me how- but as it stands, this might explain the strange disconnect in the Vatican as of late in Archbishop Paglia's support of legal abortion.