not convinced about this guy at all. read too much about Jesuit influence in behind-the-scenes world affairs....
He is what I call a Papal hybred, a Jesuit with a Francisian spirituality.
Read too much garbage, you mean.
Right now I am researching the Jesuits of the late 1500s through to about 1800.
I can tell you that the real influence that they had was in the form of the spiritual and moral life. They were huge anti-Machiavellians. And, because they were so good at helping people with sticky moral issues they were tapped to be spiritual directors of Catholic monarchs, something that most of them were not happy to do but they did an excellent job. They also became the educational experts in Europe, in university and pre-university education.
Jesuits were lambasted because they were so good at what they did that the "media" at the time looked for all sorts of sinister activities to pin on them just like they do now.
Today, yes, their are liberal and authentic Jesuits. A liberal Jesuit is someone who has decided to do his own thing pushing social justice and liberation theology and they have a deep-seated antipathy towards men like our new Pope.
An authentic Jesuit is one who has fully studied the theology and philosophy of the neo-Thomists of the late 1500s and are a breed quite different from the liberals. The authentic Jesuit has the same kind of brain function as our Founding Fathers in that they believe in natural law.
So, when you read about the Jesuits keep this in mind. Pope Francis is not a liberal. He is authentic.
He is like a huge wrench thrown into the liberal camp.