The election campaign of Donald Trump has once again received support from another practicing Catholic and prominent politician, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the son of JFK's brother “Bobby” Kennedy, a daily mass attender and a devotee of St Francis of Assisi.

It wasn’t long ago that the former president announced that Catholic convert JD Vance, a man heavily influenced by the teachings of St Augustine of Hippo and the French Catholic philosopher René Girard, would be his running mate for the Republican ticket to wrestle back the White House from the Democrats in November’s election.