Preface and acknowledgments Chapter 1: A radical choice Profile of a pope Pope Leo: What happened? The Challenge of Reform What reform looks like No "Golden Age" Chapter 2: A restless heart (Extra)ordinary beginnings Cerca y personal: Augustinian, missionary, prior Prior general, bishop, cardinal The hand of providence Chapter 3: "Peace be with all of you." Radically moderate The power--and limits--of gestures and signs Strange bedfellows: The College of Cardinals in brief The conclave of May 2025 in context Vicar of Christ: The man and the office Chapter 4: An Augustinian pope Power and order in the Augustinian mind One commonwealth of all Christians: In illo uno unum Journeying together Pope Leo XIV: Two keys to understanding Human nature and power in society: an Augustinian view Citizen and stranger Augustinian optimism Chapter 5: A Lion of springtime Technological eclipse Worse (and also better) Attention deficit How the Church communicates Leo XIV and the "culture of encounter" From the personal to the institutional - continuities and discontinuities Interlude: The State of the Vatican (and the state of the Church) Reform "on the go" Teaching and governance: Fernández in the DDF In form for action(?): The Church on the international stage The Church's shifting centre of gravity Things come to a head: Fiducia supplicans Unsustainable: Vatican finances in crisis Looking forward: The papal in-tray Chapter 6: Communications, curial culture, Synodality The challenge of reform: Vatican Communications Communication as listening: "Synodality" and the Synod of Bishops Romanitas Institutional memory In short Chapter 7: Financial reform Misconceptions Peter's Pence: Myth, facts, conjecture Signs of the times A threefold challenge for Pope Leo XIV A long time coming The bottom line Chapter 8: Reform of justice Leo XIV: Unfinished business Justice in a fallen world Practical challenges: Justice as closeness to victims The requirements of natural justice Natural justice and judicial independence Reserve powers The conciliarist controversy and its aftermath Chapter 9: The nature and limits of papal governing power Governing power as such Justice in the ecclesiastical system Twin challenges: transparency and judicial independence Secretly untenable What could Pope Leo XIV do? Preliminary indications: theory and practice An investigative arm A Matter for the Synod of Bishops? Making the pallium mean something (again) Conclusion: Drivers of crisis Notes.