He was truly a scholarly man that will be missed.  Some will criticize his life style, but in fact those making these criticisms are part of  a reactionary dogmatism that is vocal but powerless amongst the followers of The Way of Christ.  He simply was a leader that should be celebrated and would have been a much better Bishop of Rome than we have had since John XXIII.  Had Baum or Kung been elected pope, the RCC would be in a much better ethical and theological place today.  However so often humanity is not ready for great leaders and they reject and criticize them.  To bad that the fearful powerful men of the Vatican offices did not let their work go toward moving the Church forward in so many of Baum's ideas.