Why does the liberal media love Pope Francis

Here, NBC pretty much gives a good summary.  Multiple cases of Pope Francis reaching out to the Left's main sacred crusade: non-heterosexual normality.  Notice how many LGBT headings are in the list.  He also spoke for the liberal take on global warming, and appears to accept the liberal doctrines of religion.  He is also a good man, which doesn't hurt.  He reaches out to the downtrodden and the outcast, something Christians are called to do.  But so did previous popes.  Why this one and the liberal love affair?  Again, not that the other ones didn't preach tolerance of homosexual persons or care for the environment.  But liberals, rightly or wrongly, hear Pope Francis as not only preaching tolerance of and love for the people, but tolerance of the ideologies and acceptance of the narratives as held by the Left.