I would say he is very confused in his use of words. He thereby causes confusion and that breeds potential sin among those that are followers. That is scandal and it is wrong, particularly for a Church leader.
He needs to concern himself less with the secular World and more with the saving of souls. The poor will always be with us. The poor in spirit do not need to be with us.
We need less ‘God is All Love’ and more ‘God is All Just’ and Justice demands accountability for sin IE: Hell!
I am a cradle Catholic and practicing. I have FIVE children. I can not remember the last sermon about the justice of God or about the idea of sin. Sin that causes the death of the soul and invites an eternity in Hell.
Make no mistake, we get plenty of God’s forgiveness, but forgiveness is not available to those who willfully sin and refuse to repent.
His use of words .... his native tongue is Spanish, he usually delivers his homilies and other reflections in Italian. On his most recent trip, he opted to speak in English.
Our contemporary society tends to use sound bites, selective quips often pulled out of context from the entire speech. We have become so nuanced in one's use of language that it neglects to consider how words might have been mistranslated from native tongue to the common parlance of another country. My native tongue is English but I have studied both French and Italian. Many years ago, I was asked to deliver a presentation in French. If you are familiar with the process of how we start out by formulating our thoughts in our native tongue then you know how challenging it is to take a carefully crafted speech from one language into another. In my case, I elected to have a native French speaker do the translation. Afterwards, I devoted hours of rehearsal on where to place inflections, elevating the voice on certain points while diminishing it on others ... rehearsing with yet another native French speaker. And all of this work was for one speech.
Perhaps you can cut the pope some slack.