As the most credible foil to Trump, Pope Francis leaves a geopolitical hole

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : All popes, by virtue of also being a head of state with a status at the United Nations, are political but Francis planted himself in the middle of three of the biggest crises to grip the world since the end of World War II.
45% : He was conservative or orthodox on social policy, and titled left on economics, workers' rights, war and peace and the environment -- as Catholic social teaching has done for more than century.
43% : Francis was the most credible foil to Donald Trump on the world stage.
40% : He spread pro-migrant views On his own doorstep, Francis found himself in conflict with the rising tide of ethno-nationalism in Europe.
37% : These are the north-south global divide, principally over wealth, poverty, and resources; climate change and its associated traumas of natural disaster and famine; and the rise of nationalism.

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