It doesn't sound like you have ever read what the Holy Father has actually said. 
 He most certainly does preach a challenging personal message of conversion.  It is a  conversion of the heart; a conversion to Christ and to the gospel.  It is not a conversion back to pre VII  or right wing self satisfaction.   

You've got it very wrong!

Jesus did not want his apostles  to be slanderers, or bear false witness or commit character
assassination.