Perhaps by those who think like those who criticized Jesus, right?
While Jesus was having dinner at Levi’s house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. When the teachers of the law who were Pharisees saw him eating with the sinners and tax collectors, they asked his disciples: “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
The Pope has not endorsed perversion by reaching out to someone who is perverted.
How about kissing the hand of an activist homosexual priest and celebrating mass with him?
That's a little bit different from merely "reaching out."
“On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.””
Please show me where the pope has called them sinners.
This priest is not just a sinner: he is a heretic. He is promoting changes to Church teaching.
Did Jesus kiss the hands of heretics?