C'mon now, he pays lip service to the media but won't do shit about all the sex offenders he manages. If his words actually had meaning, he wouldn't be pulling bishops and cardinals (who happened to spend their careers protecting sex offenders in their dioceses) out of their countries and giving them high profile positions in the Vatican.He said gays shouldn't be persecuted, that raping kids is a disgraceful stain on the church and that evolution and the Big Bang are fact.
All that and he's not even at it that long.
I'm an Athiest, but he is the most Christ-like Christian regularly in the public eye that I've probably ever seen.
The church still has a lot to answer for but at least with people like Francis at the helm they're (albeit) slowly moving the right direction for the future.