My thinking is "No shit, Sherlock".
Agree - "no shit, Sherlock." He likes to make popular headlines, but never makes any concrete stands/ or takes any action. He uses his words carefully. When he said that Neanderthals have souls, it sounded like he was accepting them as humans, however, in catholic doctrine, all animals have souls; they just don't go to heaven. Same with loving gays, he never did more than say love.
We all knew that. The Catholic Church and religion as a whole will always by nature be fucked up and corrupt.