"Who’s your favorite saint?” a young girl asked Pope Francis in February 2016 during the preparation of the interview book “From the Poor to the Pope, from the Pope to the World” (Seuil, April 2022).

Though undoubtedly a genuine man of God with an inspiring love of the marginalised, Francis was the Great Disrupter, in many ways the Catholic Church’s version of Donald Trump. Both men would hate the ...