@jon_valdes Maybe you will also be surpised to learn that both this pope and the previous have been pretty adamant about the need to do something about climate change. And that when they ask people to be good to one another they have been quite adamant to state that this counts for all people, regardless of ethnicity or religion.

It is not a full plate, he drags his feet on LGBTQ stuff, but he is most certainly not just a conservative US preacher with a bigger hat.