In an early 2019 interview, for the Mexican broadcaster Televisa, the pope endorsed same-sex couples by stating: "convivencia civil" (in Spanish); this remark aired in October 2020 for the film "Francesco" in which the expression was translated to "civil union" in the subtitles of the film. This has been picked up by the media as Pope Francis supporting same-sex civil union. Some Spanish-speaking Catholic priests said the translation was inaccurate. Archbishop Víctor Manuel Fernández of La Plata, long-time theological advisor of Pope Francis, has defended that the two expressions "unión civil" and "ley de convivencia civil" are often used interchangeably in Argentina when speaking about laws, and designate a civil union.