Right-wing Catholic Americans are in a position of power - from Vice President JD Vance to Leonardo Leo, Pope Leo Xiv appears on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica after the white smoke is cleared, which may cause a brief relief.

Observers point out that this is an obvious choice with his former Pope Francis, a painful figure of many determined conservatives who wore all the whites in 2013 at the same time, symbolizing his desire for simplicity and humility.

In another nod to tradition, the American Pope chose to sing in his first Sunday blessing - not recited - the prayer of Regina Caeli and dedicated his first audience to the head of Opus dei, the head of Opus Dei, which is an ultra-conservative religious order whose secret member list is believed to include famous Catholics in Washington.

However, it seems well known that given his background, temperament and values, he will largely adhere to the vision of the church proposed by Pope Francis without condemning or deviating from it. While he may prefer traditionalist things to his late Argentine predecessor, Leo cannot be called traditionalist, but Faggioli added.

For now, the deeper question is how the new pope will position himself through right-wing Catholics who have important power in the United States and Washington through their wealth and political influence. These include people like Leonard Leo, a conservative Catholic activist who leads the Republican mission to install a right-wing majority in the U.S. Supreme Court, which today consists primarily of hyperconservative Catholics.

The division within the American Catholic Church - between the conservatives who rejected the legitimacy of Pope Francis and the legitimacy of Catholics who embraced Francis - has nothing to do with the division in the United States itself. On the one hand, Cathleen Kaveny, a professor of law and theology at Boston College, is a conservative who wants to “lock” the church’s teachings and reject changes they see as illegal, as well as liberals who want church doctrines to align with social change.

Many experts believe that unlike Francis, Leo does not necessarily have to offend or comply with American rights.

"I don't think he's trying to unnecessarily dissatisfied people. Francis is more willing to take a unique stance. But Leo won't give up on their promises, especially to the poor, just to appease his critics," Cavenney said.

Observers say Leo's history is bishop of the poor diocese of Peru from 2014 to 2023 and leading the order of Augustine from Rome - showing that the new pope has steel in his spine and is not caught in stress on his own.

"As the Pope, I don't think he will go out of his way to find a battle, but his gentle manner shouldn't deceive anyone. He has a backbone and will speak out when necessary." Christopher White, the National Catholic journalist, said his author of the National Catholic journalist, the author behind the forthcoming book Pope Leo Xiv: The Interior and the Dawn of New Paper.

"Unlike Francis, who is not from the United States, Leo already knows where the line of failure is, he will be smart and will not get entangled with his own personal or special interests factions and they will seek to use him."

Steve Bannon, a Catholic far-right nationalist who served as an adviser to Donald Trump, is one of a handful of commentators, even though the church has never chosen the American pontiff.

"Walker Globalist Carper Prevost is an excellent choice for Curia, Walker Globalist, and Bergoglio will implement his radical plan," said Bannon, referring to Pope Francis, "though becoming 'American', so big donors can comfortably access and open their checkbooks. The church has a lot of liquidity issues in the United States - they need value related to the value of trade trade.

Bannon also said that American donor heavyweights have "queued up" to get a "head" from the pope in exchange for a check. But he did not elaborate.

Kaveny does think Leo will be the promoter of change, not in what Francis looks like. The former Pope represented a charismatic authority who could move people with his words and actions, while Leo (always deeply integrated by Roman Curia) had an institutional authority that could make vision act.

"It's important to understand that he was trained as a Canon lawyer," she said. "It's like Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a vision of the New Deal, which supports their seniors, but lawyers took lawyers to create the Social Security Act."

Although Francis is easily dismissed by the American Catholics because the Marxist Pope fundamentally understands Americans, these critics refute Leo or saying that his view of America is a cartoon difficulty.

"He understands the DNA of conservatives. He comes from a centrist Catholic tradition and is very progressive on issues of immigration and refugees," Faggioli said. He may also disappoint some liberals with the problems of church, abortion and gender women.

Unlike Francis, the hyperconservatives in the church will also be forced to confront the undeniable fact: Leo is relatively young and full of energy.

"He can surpass some of them," Faggioli said.

What observers can’t understand yet is how Leo’s American nationality will eventually discolor his term.

Faggioli said the conclusion was to choose a pope for the times, just like choosing Bergoglio - Pope Francis - during Barack Obama's presidency, "leaving from some paradigms of white European domination."

Unwritten rules say that there is never a US pope based on the world order, in which the United States is the world's superpower and cannot claim the leader of the most global religion.

However, the choice of the General Meeting seems to ask a question - where is the second Trump administration going in the United States now.

"All of these destructions make the American pope's idea more acceptable," Faggioli said.