Analysis France’s Catholic Revival Is Fueling Its Far Right French religiosity is surging—in tandem with political extremism. By Robert Zaretsky, a professor of history at the University of Houston’s Honors College and the author of the forthcoming Pursuing Happiness: Stendhal and the Art of Living. Pope Francis, seen through the glass windshield of the Popemobile, raises his left hand to wave. Hundreds of people are visible in a crowd lining the street behind him. Francis wears long white vestaments and only a small white skullcap hat. Pope Leo XIV waves to the crowd from the popemobile in Paris on Sept....