You can see it for yourself.
Write a comment/post critical of china in any community from the lemmy.ml instance.
For example about the Uyghurs or the mass surveillance or whatever is your topic of choice.
See how much time it takes for them to ban you/remove your comment under their rule of “no xenophobia”.
The only thing I know about this pope is what I’ve gathered from Lemmy comments. According to those:
He’s homophobic and anti-trumpism in the aspect of immigrants.
I think that’s a pretty average catholic. Homophobia and helping the poor.
Neither progressive nor fascist.