I have overestimated him massively when he entered office, thinking that what I have heared and read by him before would be examplary for the way he runs the papacy. He is capable of laser-sharp intellectual thinking, no doubt (I have read several pieces by him that clearly illustrated that - but I oversaw that he always puts it under the preassumption of that the stuff in the bible needs to be taken literal (so he explicitly said in his book about Jesus that got published when he became Pope - I even was blinded enough to buy it
). I should have known better - you do not become chief of the inquisition for just nothing.
Well, got blinded once by this guy. Will never get blinded by him again.
I also think that he must be kept unbelievably isolated from the reality outside the walls of the vatican by his staff. That way, he lives in an isolated artificial universe, and his thinking and his statements are coming from that.