As Pope Francis celebrated Mass on Sunday he looked out on a congregation of up to a million people. Many of them had slept overnight on the red soil of a field on the outskirts of Antananarivo, the capital of Madagascar. They had braved the chill of the Southern Hemisphere’s winter for a chance to attend the papal Mass. As the wind whipped up rust-coloured clouds of dust, the Pope acknowledged the sacrifices of those who had camped out the night before. “As we look around us, how many men and women, young people and children are suffering and in utter need?” he asked. “This is not part of God’s plan.”