As Good as It Gets

As Good as It Gets

A ‘filthy leftist’ in the eyes of his opponents, Pope Francis, who has died aged 88, brought radical energy to the papacy – but his reformism had limits, and now his successor seems likely to push the Catholic Church firmly rightwards. There may come a time when we look back on the last decade as an anomaly in the modern history of the Catholic Church. Pope Francis – the figurehead of these years, and a radical by the standards of the Catholic …