Well, he certainly has his imperfections.  I don't like the comment he made to Ilio Delio.

However, he raises questions and talks about issues that need to be discussed.  I do think there is something greatly amiss in the Christian vision of sexuality.  The view of "the flesh" as somehow inherently bad and the spirit as pure repudiates God made flesh in Jesus.  I do wonder how Christianity, but especially now Catholicism, came to so equate holiness with lack of sexual expression.    I am creeped out by the whole attempt to equate the relationship of marriage to that of Christ and His Church, Christ is the head and the rest of us are the body.  I think the "magic man" priest and tying that to celibacy are both ridiculous.  Although, what else can all male priests be but eunuchs if Christ, a male, is "married" to the Church????  

How did the ideas about human sexuality become so difficult for religions to deal with?