He has been full of surprises as pope. It started with his choice of name – the first pope to call himself after St Francis – and his unprecedented informality when he appeared before the crowd in St Peter’s, to say, “Good Evening”, not a formal blessing. He did all the unexpected things, like spurning the grand papal apartments for a few rooms in the spartan lodging house in the Vatican (frankly, I was appalled), and turning his nose up at all the papal trappings in favour of the simplest possible dress, and used a battered Ford Fiesta to get around. And he kept that up. He was a pope of unexpected gestures; he actively welcomed gay people and trans groups; he brought a group of refugees from a camp into the Vatican; he made programmes about ageing and sturdily pointed out the value of age.