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This pope is less awful than your average cardinal... the catholic church is so fucking conservative that the pope is still extremely conservative when measured against normal people.
I'm not Catholic; I'm an athiest. But I think this pope is a smart, decent person at the top of one of the world's largest, wealthiest, old, and conservative organizations, with simply legendary levels of internal politics. He's one of the most liberal popes we've ever seen, ever - although, we're talking about the Catholic church, so "most liberal" only goes so far. But I do think he's behaved like a kind, inclusive person.
I suspect any lack of real cleansing of corruption and pedophilia has been due to politics and realpolitik in the church, and not because he approves of it.
Even if he could mount an internal inquisition today, he doesn't seem like a Pope who would.