Rodrigo Duterte is arguably the most anti-clerical head of state in the world today. Since he was sworn in as president in June 2016, he has relentlessly assailed the clergy. He has claimed that second collections pay for priests’ illegitimate children, called bishops “sons of bitches” and even referred to the Pope as a “son of a whore”. (He later apologised.)

It’s not difficult to locate the source of his loathing. Duterte claims that he was molested by an American Jesuit priest as a student at the prestigious Ateneo de Davao University. When Pope Francis summoned bishops to Rome to address clerical abuse last month, the 73-year-old leader of the PDP–Laban party was quick to say: “I told you so.” He proposed various remedies for the crisis, including allowing priests to marry women – and each other. “That’s the solution to the problem,” he insisted.