He will encourage open inquiry on difficult questions. In the freedom of family life, he will encourage debate between the sons and daughters of the house. He will put an end forever to secret denunciations and secret inquisitions into the orthodoxy of honest scholars. He will protect them in charity against detractors. Then West goes on.
Charity never fails.
At the end of West's book, a cardinal speaks to the newly elected pope, his close friend and mentor, before the pope has selected his name or prepares to greet the people from the balcony above St. Peter's Square. They are often afraid and lonely. They need a caring shepherd. When I finished the book I had a great sense of hope, even though it was fiction.