When the pope says something good..as he did the other day..I applaud him.  And I did. 

He just sort of has a rambling vague puffy fuzzy language way that suits some people, but quite often not me and many others.  Just too meandering and double-talking.

He's kind of a feeler type; he's not a theologian, not a philosopher, not an intellectual, not a scholar, nor a scientist.  

Early on I thought he might be sort of a mystic, but that charitable hypothesis ran aground after a couple of months of listening to inconsistencies. 

He would have made a great pastor of a parish church.   I would have loved to have gone to Confession to him. 

There is a tiresome and lazy trend to declare anyone who presents other than "corporate/party line" hosannas to the pope to be labeled Pharisees, as you did.

And many professional writers have taken this lazy approach apart bit by bit, but it continues because it flows off the fingers easily now.