He is the Pope, his choice of words reveals his beliefs, he isn’t an atheist or part of secular society.
He’s also a human being and he speaks and writes a lot like the rest of us. I myself have joked about missing my friend, Mr. Sun, particularly in the middle of winter....but that certainly doesn’t imply that I am deifying the Sun. I don’t deify the moon either when I talk about the “man in the moon.” Neither did the Pope’s choice of words imply anything similar.
The press often distorts (on some occasions has even lied about) what the Pope has said. Imagine that!
Here’s one site where you can get the truth about what the Pope has said...full transcripts too: http://jimmyakin.com/2015/01/the-weekly-francis-12-january-2015.html
If the liberals reported everything the Pope says in his daily homilies...well they won’t...because it doesn’t “fit their narrative.”