Most significant positive evidence
Strong advocacy for poor and displaced people, peace, climate responsibility and social solidarity.
Person
Pope Francis
Leadership assessed across poverty, migration, peace, climate, interfaith relations, equality and abuse accountability.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+46.50
Reasoned summary
A materially positive global moral influence, reduced by unresolved institutional accountability and equality failures.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
Incomplete clerical-abuse accountability and continuing unequal treatment of women and LGBT people.
Read the full Pope Francis ethical assessment, evidence and sources
Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +42.50
- Rights and dignity
- +31.67
- Nonviolence and harm
- +57.50
- Stewardship of power
- Not applicable
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +43.33
- Consequential legacy
- +57.50
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Pope Francis (2013–2025)
2013–2025 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile