Pope Francis backs George Floyd protests and hits out at coronavirus sceptics

Pope Francis (Vincenzo Pinto/AP)

Pope Francis is supporting demands for racial justice in the wake of the US police killing of George Floyd and has blasted Covid-19 sceptics and the media that spread their conspiracies in a new book penned during the Vatican’s coronavirus lockdown.

In Let Us Dream, Francis also criticises populist politicians who whip up rallies in ways reminiscent of the 1930s, and the hypocrisy of “rigid” conservative Catholics who support them.