Father de Souza discusses two new books about the new pope. We already have an array of first-hundred-days analyses of Pope Leo XIV, as though the first American-born pope could be judged like an American president. Yet Robert Prevost of Chicago’s south side is more like an ideal Supreme Court nominee: the able jurist of considerable achievement about whose views not very much is definitively known. Both books are slender, and both fail at an impossible task, that is, telling us what Leo thinks about controverted issues.
