The Italian Catholic academician Massimo Borghesi has produced a book-length defense of Pope Francis entitled Jorge Mario Bergoglio: An Intellectual Biography. As reported by National Catholic Register here, Borghesi argues that Francis is an original and profound thinker who has drawn on numerous Church thinkers of the 20th century to seek a third position between conservatism and progressivism. According to Borghesi, Francis has been influenced by thinkers who view the Church as the complexio oppositorum, the point of contrasting unions that, on the natural level, do not find a solution. He is a mystic who sees his mission as resolving these...