It would seem that between the American president-elect and the Pope there is a chasm, the former representing a triumph for those values most antithetical to the preaching of Pope Francis. That is largely true, but what fascinates is their similarities.
Earlier this year Pope Francis remarked that, on account of his plan to build a wall on the Mexican border, Donald Trump was “not a Christian”. The New York Times’s Ross Douthat, one of America’s most astute religious commentators, wrote of this “clash of the populists”:
