Millennial writer Christopher White is quoted in a new article for the Guardian:

“It’s been made quite clear in recent weeks that Leo, substantively, is of the same mould as Francis,” said Christopher White, the author of Pope Leo XIV: Inside the Conclave and the Dawn of a New Papacy and a senior fellow at Georgetown University in Washington DC.

“They have very different styles. Francis was unscripted, spontaneous. Leo is cautious and careful in the way he speaks and acts. But I think they both view the church as what Francis described as a field hospital that has to tend to the most marginalised, particularly the poor in society.”…

White told the Guardian: “There are certain American conservative Catholics that hoped to see a course correction with the new pope, and many of those would be the sort of American Catholics who are more aligned with Maga.

“A pope who happens to be an American and who is suspicious and critical of unbridled free market capitalism is probably a disappointment to them. Francis was often dismissed by his conservative critics in the US who would say he just doesn’t understand our country. They can’t dismiss Leo so easily.”

Leo, he added, was “not temperamentally someone that is looking for a fight. But I think he also realises the responsibility on his shoulders to use the megaphone he’s been given on behalf of those who are without a voice. His instinct is to build bridges. But he believes you can’t do that while sacrificing your integrity and certain causes that require you to speak out.”