While in Slovakia recently, Francis told the Jesuits that “a large Catholic television channel” had no hesitation in “continually speaking ill of the pope”, and that its attacks were the “work of the devil”. An editor of America magazine, J.D. Long-García, took issue with Francis, claiming his was an attempt to silence criticism. My response, also at America, argues it was no such thing, but alerting the People of God to the action of the diabolos — as popes should.