What I love about Pope Francis is that not only is he the supreme head of the Roman Catholic Church, but he's also a man that walks the walk of what the church teaches. I love his humility. I love his ability to see each and every person he meets as the eternal souls that they are.
Pomp and pageantry and protocol all have their place. So do well written intelligent papers but to me, the most important thing is that Francis has the ability to see a Head of State as being on the same level as a homeless man. This is what those that strive to work for peace see as important. The meeting in North Ireland between HH, The Pope and HM, Queen Elizabeth II is going to be monumental. Two souls that deeply and faithfully express their beliefs in their everyday lives and their interactions with people.
The Pope lashing out to European countries for doing more, more, more for refugees, all too easily ignoring the overflooding at the Italian and Greek coasts and traveling all their way through Europe where millions actually have found shelter and a living. The Pope did not lash out to the über-wealthy Arab states, swimming in their oil dollars, building the highest skyscrapers, constructing artificial islands of luxury but not helping their fellow islamic brothers and sisters in exodus from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, the Palestine occupied territories, no... it is not them who gets the whipping from the Pope.
At the cathedra the Pope speaks out for the oppressed, the tortured. But when he was in Myanmar, where an ethnic cleansing is unfolding in front of our eyes, he did not mention the word Rohinya.
For so far the activist Bergoglio Pope. Give me any day a Pope with serenity, respect for old traditions and liturgy and the good advice of a wise father.
About dressing up: note that when the dresscode for civilians is "up", also priests follow the dresscode. At the recent funeral of former King Michael, the Apostolic Nuncio was dressed in black-with-purple including a silk purple cappa. That is the dresscode. Likewise when cardinals go on audience with the Pope: you will not see them in their daily suits, no, they dress up in black-with-scarlet, in choir dress or with scarlet cappa. They respect the dresscode, dress up to meet the Pontiff. This Pope however act as if he could not be bothered less and appears in his schmutzy thin daily cassock (just a role he plays because as Cardinal Bergoglio he was not different than other cardinals).
Also the annual lashing out to the Roman Curia is tiring. Which normal employer does that? Assemble the staff at Christmas time and then only hell and doom to come over them because this Pope (contrary to the almost in stealth mode operating Benedictus XVI) achieves little or nothing.