For starters, he certainly knows how to dress the part. I will take that as a win right off the bat. He’s not Parolin, Tagle, McElroy or Cupich, so there’s that. His opening remarks referenced God and being missionaries of Christ. Is he for open borders? Of course he is.
Was there a coordinated campaign by liberal media outlets to get him in the Seat? It sure looks like it. Does that mean he isn’t Pope because the rules were broken? No, that is not what that means.
Look. If this man is a True Pope, the Holy Ghost is in charge now. Let’s give Him some time. It won’t take long.
Well said, Mark. Let’s give him a few days here at least.
Just made the comment to someone that this could be either really good or really bad but regardless, we will know pretty quickly.
While media campaigns could influence cardinal electors, they certainly are not binding commitments or deals with cardinal electors
People are acting like either Francis and Leo XIV were both valid, or both invalid. They’re terrified of getting a repeat.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Francis was never pope, never had the Holy Spirit, never had the Petrine Promise. Leo XIV is the valid pope, has the Holy Spirit, has the Petrine Promise.
All the liberal credentials in the world are no match for the charisms that come with the papacy. To think otherwise is to be Protestant.
Wouldn’t Satan know that? Perhaps God said “no more”. Let’s see.
I’m just saying, many people think Trump is one of the good guys, when he’s just following the template carved out for him regarding economics by Lucifer worshippers at least two decades ago.
So, if that liberalism — which is almost always contrary to the Faith, thereby heretical — should place one outside the Church, the non-Catholic in question would still be a valid pontiff, since the charisms of the papacy will always effectively right the ship? This would seem to make most of the qualifications and considerations for the office entirely superfluous, since what you’re describing is basically a post-election rebirth. To this thinking, what a man was prior to his elevation to the chair matters very little.
It also raises the question of why those charisms didn’t prevent Benedict XVI from the monstrous error of his attempted partial resignation, which led directly to 12 years of false rule and countless souls lost to its lies. The reasonable answer to this is that God allows the machinations and scheming of evil men to work toward the good, and ultimately toward His Glory. Of course that’s true. But to think that we know for certain that the schemes of those evil men — specifically the conclave packed to the gills by a raging anti-Catholic fake — were nullified, the men appearing as bishops were all converted, and their orders supernaturally validated in one majestic beat before the fateful vote… well, that seems a bit presumptuous.
In my limited study of Ecclesia Supplet, I’ve seen no interpretation that says it provides for something as essential as the Faith itself in would-be Bishops who have rejected true Catholicism of their own free will. I don’t understand how a conclave overwhelmed by apostate men, hand-picked by a usurper and mortal enemy of the Church, gets any say in who the Successor of St. Peter shall be. I just don’t know how you get there from here.
But I do know for a fact that miracles are real. And I do pray for one here. Because that’s what I believe it will take to restore the Faith to its place in Rome.
I think when we hear him repudiate even one Bergoglian heresy we will be able to breathe a little easier – it’s a move in the right direction. If he sustains the status quo then we’re looking at yet another non-Catholic douche bag and pincher of the throne. God give us wisdom and patience. I will commemorate him at Mass with an open heart awaiting better understanding.
Consider this: Bergoglio and his ilk may have orchestrated this at some point toward the end of his life. He was aware that the political pendulum would one day swing back towards the globalists. So a seed was planted, hoping to leverage the US’s influence in order to carry the Revolution forward. But one thing is true: God has already conquered satan. So even if clever men are able to deftly play the pieces on the global chessboard, the Divine 4-D Chess Master operates on a different plane and is always several steps ahead; He always win in the end.
He spoke beautifully and respectfully of Jesus 6 or 7 times. He invoked Our Lady and recited the Hail Mary. A very promising start. His pectoral cross is traditional.
He gets a honeymoon for sure.
I saw this morning he actually outstretched his arms and hands and imparted a blessing with sign of cross. I felt like it was 1950 again.
People’s comments online are very telling about just how bad bergoglio was.
Not giving someone new a chance is exactly how trauma works.
A woman gets out of an abusive relationship… The very next guy who asks her out to get a cup of coffee could be a great match for her. It doesn’t matter, she won’t even give him a chance.
I am firmly in the “Give Pope Leo XIV a chance” camp. At least until his first Encyclical.
Excellent point.
Was thinking along the same lines.
Silver lining: Malachy “Prophecies” have been settled.
Settled as false – but, you know, that’s an answer.
I see no way to call this guy “Peter the Roman”.
That’s a really good point Jeff O. The Malachy prophesies have finally been DEBONKED! People can finally shut up about them. The wheels in the sky keep on turning….
Depends – if you don’t count anti-popes and depending on whom you consider antipopes, Peter the Roman could still be 3 or 4 popes down the road. Will have to put up with St. Malachi prophecies for a while yet.
First Mass Latin. Beautiful.
Yes, we said this about Francis.
What we know, so far, about L14. He was hand-picked by Francis. He belives in open immigration. He believes in blessing gay unions . He believes the divorced should receive communion. He is bffs with James Martin. He spent most of his life in Peru where Pachamama resides (note: Pachamama is a demon, not the Virgin Mary and I am astounded no one sees the gravity of Francis consecrating her in the Vatican). And, according to what I just read, he spent the days before the conclave watching the movie “Conclave” to “know what to expect”.
And he has the youth and energy to do 2x the damage of Francis in half the time.
Since he was elected by Francis’s McCardinals, there’s an argument to be made that he is also an antipope.
Really glad Pope Benedict XVI couldnt handle the job….
We didn’t say this about Francis. The Catholic media gushed, but Francis was suspect from the moment he stepped onto the loggia with nothing but a white cassock and an awkward look on his face like he wasn’t supposed to be there. He looked like a man who got caught hitting on another man’s wife at the bar.
We now have a functioning papacy and a functional presidency. Not bad given the nightmare we were living. Whatever TDS he may have (and they almost all seem to), I did not have that horrible sick feeling in my stomach when Jorge emerged and said “buona sera.”
I’m shocked, pleasantly, that I keep coming across references L14 & TLM.
I HOPE he won’t go, “I’m a TLM guy and even I see that it is now time to abandon & suppress….”
I pray he will go, “I’m a TLM guy and yall don’t know what you’re missing. Summorum Pontificum is back.”
I met an elderly Catholic the other day who attends Novus Ordo weekly & really likes it. She said “It’s way better. Now you can understand what’s going on.”
Instead of Ordinary & Extraordinary forms, maybe they can be called something like Vernacular & Historic forms.
Im in the wait and see and pray camp. Grace of office can change a man…I don’t think Bergolio ever really had the office.
The first homily actually wasn’t bad. Heard more on Jesus as the Son of God in 11 minutes than in all the years of Bergolio. I’ll take that as a good sign. One way or the other, we’ll know soon enough.
I find it ironic that the Pope and other high clerics want open borders except at the Vatican. They have very strict immigration laws. I understand the size differential but still.