Pope Leo is spurning populism for a more institutional style of leadership

Like the populist he was, Pope Francis felt an instinctive scepticism about bureaucracies, including the one he was called to lead. Famously, he once catalogued 15 spiritual diseases of the Roman curia, including “spiritual Alzheimer’s” and the “terrorism of gossip”, and those actually were among the kinder things he had to say about the place.