Pope Francis’s social and political message has clear affinities with Joe Biden’s democratic Catholic vision, according to Massimo Faggioli in his book, Joe Biden and Catholicism in the United States,[1] released on the day of Biden’s presidential inauguration. This convergence is not coincidental. Francis’s encyclical on human fraternity, Fratelli Tutti, was published last year “so as to appear ahead of the American election.”[2] Francis was attempting to influence the American election in favour of Biden, the Catholic candidate with agreeable policies. Biden’s election was…..