“He confuses the heck out of me. It’s like he’s from another planet...and it’s not heaven.”
No. I’ll explain it to you. I think others in this thread are unable to do this because they are mistaking what Pope Francis is talking about. There is a “Traditionalist” movement in the Church. There are also “Traditionalist” looking or sounding seminarians who swear they were kicked out of this or that seminary precisely because they were very, very orthodox while the rector, professors, and other seminarians are said to be overwhelmingly modernists, liberals, homosexuals, etc. Now, undoubtedly that is true in some cases. That situation (just see Rose’s book called Goodbye Good Men: http://www.amazon.com/Goodbye-Good-Men-Liberals-Corruption/dp/0895261448) is so well known that some seminarians who outwardly might be very traditional use it as an excuse to cover up some real problems they have. Even bishops - orthodox ones who are known as stalwarts of the Catholic faith - have caught on to this tactic because many of them have been burned by it.
The natural inclination of these traditional minded bishops is to believe the seminarian in question because they have seen it for real so many times. They now know they have to be careful and vett these seminarians just as much as anyone else. If they don’t vett these people adequately enough they might get a version of this disaster: http://www.riverfronttimes.com/2004-08-25/news/bishop-takes-queen/full/
Sadly, many of the so-called Traditionalists here are FR so hate this pope that they can’t even see when he is making perfect sense. I say “so-called” because I am a Traditionalist but that in no makes me unable to think with the brain God gave me. Justice is to render to each his due. Francis is the pope. I don’t have to agree with him on anything but Church teaching, but I will always render him his due and at the very least that means not overreacting to something man says without at least properly understanding it first.
To fairly render him his due, one needs to simply accept the reality that actions speak louder than words. His previous attacks on traditional Catholics are well-documented.