“What to expect from an Augustinian pope”

James K. A. Smith in American Magazine:

“Excited by an Augustinian bishop of Rome, friends began texting. An email thread of St. Augustine scholars chimed in on the news, musing about the shape of an Augustinian papacy.

And that’s the question I’ve been thinking about ever since: What might we expect from an Augustinian pope? I listened to Pope Leo’s first messages with Augustinian ears. In his first words from the balcony, and then in his homily at his first Mass, I heard abiding themes from the Doctor of Grace.”