Now, to clarify, does the Holy Spirit consider him a safe pick for pope?
Scola could be fascinating. Whereas the last few popes have been fairly statist, despite their strong rejection of communism, Scola is from “Communion and Liberation,” which is fairly economically subsidiarist, which is highly consistent with American-style conservatism: all authority to subsist in the simplest theoretically competent entity. In other words, for a higher level of organization to assume responsibility from a lower one, it must make the case that it is inherently impossible for the lower one to successfully achieve a just outcome. In my opinion, this principle is preferable to libertarianism, in that it lacks the absolutism while remaining strongly principled, rather than requiring pragmatic compromises. Or you could say that its required pragmatism is still strongly principled.