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I usually rely on a Hermeneutic of Continuity: both by comparing to what he's said before, and the contexts of his predecessors and the Catechism, to which he himself has pointed out as his guide with the words "I am a son of the Church."

Sometimes you just have to get his whole paragraph. The media --- it can't be denied --- does too much snipping and framing, as Dawn Eden pointed out in this very article we are discussing at the top of this thread.

From the Pope's interview with the atheist editor, Eugeio Scalfari:

"And I repeat it here. Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place."

This Vatican-centric view neglects the world around us. I do not share this view and I'll do everything I can to change it.

"I have the humility and ambition to want to do something."

"The first thing I decided was to appoint a group of eight cardinals to be my advisers. Not courtiers but wise people who share my own feelings. This is the beginning of a Church with an organization that is not just top-down but also horizontal. When Cardinal Martini talked about focusing on the councils and synods he knew how long and difficult it would be to go in that direction. Gently, but firmly and tenaciously."

All emphasis above is mine. Francis, on numerous occasions, has announced he's on a mission to change the Church; of course he'll never succeed. I understand Scalfari did not record the above interview but the same was vetted by the Pope and placed on the Vatican's website until the resultant uproar from concerned Catholicss caused it to be scrubbed from the website.