“…the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God.” — Pope St. Paul VI
I stopped posting about politics on LIMESTONE many years ago, but I’m a big “C” Catholic and am incensed by Pope Leo XIV. He is a political animal (like his predecessor) and is therefore subject to criticism.
He supports mass migration, while millions of dollars have been funneled to the Catholic Church to support resettlement. He openly supports the LGBTQ+ (trans) agenda through schismatics like Father James Martin. He is obsessed with climate change, and he has been absolutely silent about Christians being persecuted in Africa and churches being burned in “democracies” like Canada. He has also said nothing about Iranians being slaughtered by a tyrannical regime.
He even hosts political figures like David Axelrod, who openly support abortion (which I would call infanticide) and euthanasia. This is not a holy pope, and his actions very clearly reflect someone of the world. History, after all, is full of antipopes.
What he could be doing instead is prioritizing the defense of Western civilization. How about a pilgrimage to Walsingham to renew the faith of a godless England? How about a retreat to a Cistercian monastery in Belgium to promote religious orders? How about actively promoting the faith to young people—those disgusted with relativism and thirsty for something beyond the empty promises of social media?
How about excommunicating politicians who are pro-abortion? How about holding liberal bishops accountable for subverting the faith? What if he used the same energy he spends promoting globalism (or what I would characterize as socialism) to draft an encyclical like Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (May 15, 1891)?
He supposedly chose his name after Pope Leo XIII, who composed the prayer to St. Michael after a vision—yet he embraces figures like David Axelrod.
And just for the record…
I don’t think Trump is a holy man, just as I don’t think Churchill was a holy man—but God uses people as part of His plan.
I also don’t believe any U.S. blood or treasure should be expended in Iran or Ukraine.
Related
(1) DOJ Reveals Biden’s Weaponization of Law Against Pro-Life Americans (NEWSMAX) < File under the kind of “democracy” Pope Leo XIV prefers because this is the handiwork of Obama acolytes.
(2) After 900 years, monks of iconic French La Trappe Abbey consider leaving historic monastery (National Catholic Reporter)
(3) Why are churches burning across Canada? Weak response to religious arson has been alarming (NY POST)
(4)The Spirit of Pope Leo XIII (Imaginative Conservative)
“Nor did Leo shy away from the threats to Catholics and the Church of private societies like the Freemasons and of the growth of secular democratic societies, especially in countries that were no longer, or had never been, essentially Catholic.”
(5) Death to the Demons Within (Imaginative Conservative)
“Even the most conservative of commentators are warning us, and with good reason, that we are at present facing an unprecedented upsurge of evil both inside and outside the Church. There may well have been such wicked and even devilish manifestations of evil before in the world, but now we have to face them from within the Church and even from those to whom we should look for inspiration and guidance. It is because many other orthodox writers are revealing what I can only describe as satanic evils that are arising in the Church, that I can instead concentrate on detailing how Christ wishes to destroy them and their perpetrators through those who would receive him. What Freud has called “unruly and irrational impulses” the Desert Fathers called the “monsters in the deep” or the “demons within”, that can possess those who do nothing to contain them. The love that has been leaking from Catholic Spirituality for several centuries is now finding rock bottom in large groups of powerful clerics, religious, and some laity, who are demanding sacramental status for unworthy and unscriptural forms of so-called love that they practise. They are almost a religion within a religion, frighteningly militant, and as the desires and urges that rule them are irrational it is impossible to confront them with rational argument.”
(6) Pope Leo Accused Of Inventing Biblical Quote Of Jesus (YouTube)