Occams Razor - no great plot afoot....
Agreed. No need to invoke conspiracy theory, in spite of the fact that the former Cardinal Bergoglio was certainly a left-of-center Latino liberation theologian.
Specifically, I think the best explanation for his recent erratic behavior is that the Holy Father now is just an old man in the early-to-mid stages of senility.
(I say this after watching/hearing his statements last week and this morning on Italian TV, without "voice over" translations by professionally articulate English speakers. And by the way, his statements on "climate change" and armaments were not his only foolhardy pronouncements in recent days. His words last week on the current immigrant invasion of Italy were equally bizarre, IMO.)