Pope Francis’s new frontiers: now he’s off to Turkey

His increasingly anxious minders cannot forget that it was a Turk who tried to assassinate John Paul II

Pope Francis
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Rome - Pope Francis has taken his gloves off. Condemning Islamic State butchers one day and boxing the ears of European Union leaders the next, Francis’s populist global defence of the downtrodden is winning the battle for hearts and minds as no Pope has in years.

This week has seen the popular Argentinian-born pontiff’s most daring foray into foreign policy yet.

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Andrea Vogt is an Italy correspondent for TheWeek.co.uk, based in Bologna. Her books include Common Courage, about white supremacist extremism in the US, and a collection of European true crime stories published by Rizzoli.