Since he’s speaking ex cathedra, he must be infallible, so it must have been the correct thing to say, right?
Anyway, as an Italian I’d say that any Italian hearing this spoken with his heavy non-native accent wouldn’t even notice the slip. It’s like noticing when a foreigner is speaking English with a thick accent and says something that sounds vaguely like “it’s a hot day, let’s go to the bitch.”
