Pope Francis Is the Anti-Trump

For readers consumed with the Trumpian chaos of the past ten days, images of a white-robed Pope Francis standing beside a man dressed like a nutcracker--the Grand Master of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, epauletted and festooned in red and gold--likely seemed absurd and irrelevant. The Pope, one might have read, had forced the resignation of the head of an ancient vestige of Catholic Europe's cult of aristocracy. Headlines conveyed the impression of a bizarre Vatican dustup sparked by ye...