Good man, that is. and I knew it!
I knew that he would not turn out to be the tough hardliner many feared, he was called the "Panzer-Kardinal" over here. His faces change with the official positions he holds, and pope is a different job than being boss of the congregation. In a long TV-interview with German TV two or three weeks ago he chuckled when being confronted with a remark that he had been expected to be like this, ,or like that, saying that people have divided him into so many sub-personalities that he cannot count his many parts anymore, something like this he said. but he was always one and the same man, he said, just doing different jobs that came with different responsebilities. From what i have red from his writings, he has a laser-sharp mind. I can only recommend to read some of his many stuff, it goes both to the heart and the intellect and shows his fundament in greek philosophy. Now, that is a pope with whom I can deal, for a change. His predecessor I found disgusting.