he's a jesuit and they have a very particular worldview. americans have a political issue with seeing everything in a lens of liberal/conservative. this pope in particular gets misrepresented in media a lot. i've seen a few articles where journalists either mistranslate something he says to mean the opposite, or they fabricated quotes. matters of faith and doctrine don't easy fit into the puzzle pieces of american left/right politics.  to more directly answer your question, i respect the pope in that he is the vicar of christ and the inheritor of st. peter's office. his opinions on social issues are just his opinions. it isn't doctrine.  i guess what i'm saying is don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. god chooses imperfect vessels to carry out his will. we can only know in the fullness of time what role pope francis was meant to play.
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