He began with statements that pissed off the Islamic world, he alienated women with hard core anti-abortion messages, and has been involved in ongoing investigations into the Church and its business dealings. There's a book out that I forget the name of that details some of the problems but the long and the short of it is that he brought the church to the right and has been steadily losing influence in the first world for the Church and as such he has been criticized by more progressive forces in the faith.