It is a reminder, as always, that when it comes to scoring papabile, usually those who know don’t say, and those who say don’t know.

We do not yet know what choices Pope Leo will make. We can, however, pay close attention to the choices our new Holy Father has already made.

Aside from Leo XIII, himself not canonized, there have been 12 others who share a name with the new pope, and five of those predecessors attained the heights of sanctity and have been proclaimed saints.

Not counting his meeting May 10 with the College of Cardinals, Pope Leo’s first special audience was reserved for members of the media who covered his election and the death of Pope Francis.

One of the voices heard during the funeral of Pope Francis was Kielce Gussie, a Vatican journalist who had the honor of proclaiming the first reading at the Mass.