>> Pope Francis' full statements on homosexual partnerships censored >> The Vatican has imposed a media blackout after fresh revelations that the pope's approval of gay civil unions in a 2019 interview was censored, only to re-emerge unauthorized in the new *Francesco* film. >> "With reference to the [current media] crisis triggered off by Russian director Evgeny Afineevsky's film *Francesco*, for now we are not going out with ANY news, neither [on] radio nor [on the] web," ordered Massimiliano Menichetti, head of Vatican Radio and Vatican News, in an email. >> "Also, nothing about the film or today's award ceremony in the Vatican," the email instructed, as filmmaker Afineevsky received the Kinéo Movie for Humanity Award in the Vatican gardens Thursday.