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“He told me that I had likely misunderstood what happened, and that Coach Poe was trying to be ‘fatherly,’” she testified.

Jeff adopted a stern, fatherly tone with his mom, which the documentary illustrates with the missives he left on her answering machine.

The pontiff resumed some work on Monday and called the Priest of the Parish of Gaza "to express his fatherly closeness", the Vatican added.

By that point, Mello has potently established the fatherly warmth his family will sorely miss.

She said he had asked in "gentle and fatherly way", and that she thought "the leader has the right to be presented in the way he sees fit".