00:02:20.720Perhaps the only other thing that perfectly encapsulates it was what he said on May 8th,
00:02:25.260because today's the one year anniversary that we're recording this, of him being elected
00:02:29.920pope when he stood on the loggia and invoked Francis, Pope Francis, as if he was a saint
00:02:36.520in heaven, saying that he was looking down on us from heaven, and then invoked synodality,
00:02:40.940something like a dozen times in that address and said that he was going to continue the work of
00:02:46.540Pope Francis. I was shocked too. Meltdown is not quite the right word, but it is the closest I've
00:02:51.220ever had in a live stream or on my channel of having a public meltdown of some kind because
00:02:55.960we all read those reports from the College of Cardinals report. His record was pretty well
00:03:03.800known if you paid attention to the news. He was the man who for the last few years of Francis's
00:03:10.140pontificate, directly helped him elevate bishops to the episcopate, helped him promote men to the
00:03:16.060College of Cardinals. He was, if you've seen the quality of men that Francis made bishop,
00:03:22.080Cardinal Prevost was one of the men most directly responsible for that. And we have seen no change
00:03:27.800in that since then. In fact, in some ways, it's worse. He just elected or made a bishop in West
00:03:33.420Virginia, a state with virtually no Hispanic population. If you look at the actual demographics,
00:03:38.880an illegal immigrant or former rather illegal immigrant to be the bishop there in a state that
00:03:44.760went to trump by like 40 points why am i bringing up the president this early in this because for
00:03:49.280the last year there has been a practical back and forth mostly from leo to trump until trump
00:03:54.620finally broke and i am not defending trump's response because it was i don't think really
00:03:58.960all that defendable either but there was this constant poking from the from the vatican on
00:04:03.960immigration policy unveiled references to tyrants rounding up illegal aliens and kicking them out
00:04:08.860of their countries. I mean, I appreciate the words on unity and all the rest. I do appreciate that,
00:04:13.380but the actions don't match. And so when you go back to that mediatrics of all graces, I'm1.00
00:04:17.140reminded of how damaging to unity that document was. It was right after that document that0.99
00:04:22.580suddenly the tone and tenor out of the Society of St. Pius X changed dramatically. Many
00:04:29.520traditionalists who are harder line than I think you or I are when it comes to the SSPX question,
00:04:34.500They had taken to task the SSPX under Bishop Follet for 20 years, about maybe longer than that, about the tone of the SSPX towards the Vatican being too conciliatory, willing to move away from some of their language that they use to describe the things going on in the church.
00:04:54.180Famously, it was under Archbishop Lefebvre towards the end of his life when he said they accepted 80% of Vatican II.
00:05:01.380It was just that other 20% wherein the problems lie.
00:05:03.740That number changed to like 95% under filet.
00:05:08.100If you actually go read the old news reports and the things he said publicly, they were much more conciliatory.
00:05:13.300The SSPX were part of the reason we got some more on pontificum.
00:05:16.420It was through an overture from them to Benedict XVI that that document came to the front.
00:05:21.100And a lot of SSPX hardliners were not happy with that.
00:05:25.200Suddenly, after the Mediatrics of All Graces document came out, where you are now forbidden from using it in any formal church thing,
00:05:33.020your private devotions are fine. It fits perfectly within Amoris Laetitia and Fiducia
00:05:38.180Supplicans, how the Vatican does these things. They reiterate what the church has always taught
00:05:43.480on something before then telling you that that's actually not what we're going to do for pastoral
00:05:47.640reasons. And that's exactly what they did. You can find the co-redemptrix title and mediatrix
00:05:52.980of all graces title referenced by popes and theologians in one form or another going back
00:05:57.720to like the 10th century. But now it's always harmful to use it unless it's for your private
00:06:02.500devotion, as long as you understand fully what the church teaches. It's a strange thing.
00:06:07.480And after that document came out, the SSPX attitude changed dramatically. And a couple
00:06:12.700of months later, when the SSPX announced their consecration of bishops that will earn them a
00:06:18.440questionable excommunication, they cited, Father David Pelleriani cited explicitly the document
00:06:25.280on the Mediatrics of All Graces as the thing that was the final straw for them, much in the same way
00:06:30.320that Archbishop Lefebvre's final straw was the Assisi consecrations. I can say positive things0.98
00:06:35.580about Pope Leo. He has all the outward externals of what you expect a post-conciliar pope to have.
00:06:40.500He has a much better personal comportment than Pope Francis did. I think we are all,
00:06:45.740none of us are too worried about any kind of derogatory language coming out of Leo like that
00:06:51.600came out of Francis. Even if we chuckled about it with Francis privately, because some of the
00:06:57.200things he said. My favorite quote from Pope Francis is, there are far too many liberals in
00:07:02.480the church, liberal priests, and by liberal, I mean homosexual. That's probably my favorite1.00
00:07:06.360Francis quote. See, we laugh because it's true. His actions didn't match the language.0.99
00:07:11.860We won't get that from Leo. He is more restrained in his language. That's a good thing. At the same
00:07:17.280time, though, Francis not being so restrained in it made it easy for us to make the point
00:07:21.480that the actions he took regarding the liturgy, regarding the topics of Fiducia supplicants and
00:07:29.120Amoris Laetitia, all those things were erroneous and dangerous. They were. Leo's comportment,
00:07:34.080it makes him much more, a much harder sell, I guess. Even though Fiducia supplicants,
00:07:40.540but Amoris Laetitia, you've been in this battle longer than I have. Amoris Laetitia was like the0.63
00:07:45.540inflection point, wasn't it? A lot of people stopped giving Francis the benefit of the doubt
00:07:49.000after that document. The Vatican announced that this year, the bishops will be meeting with the
00:07:53.760Pope in the fall to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Amoris Laetitia. And one of their tasks is to
00:08:00.600try to figure out why that document didn't bring Catholics back to mass, who, because they decided
00:08:06.260to get divorced and remarried outside the church, they weren't coming back. And they still aren't
00:08:09.900coming back, even though they got thrown a bone. They're doubling down on Amoris Laetitia. That's
00:08:14.360what they're going to do. In the same way that you're going to see it, they've already doubled
00:08:18.100down on fiducius supplicants, informal blessings.
00:10:34.080when you have that song in particular is a gay anthem.
00:10:37.940If you look at a list of pop songs that are gay anthems, that song is near the top of every list, even though it was never explicitly written to be such.
00:10:45.620And the timing is especially weird because it happened literally the day after the Synod on Synodality's working groups released their documents saying that gay relationships aren't really a sin.0.62
00:10:55.220It's doing the gay relationship without God.0.96
00:12:25.640honestly, I have an unpopular take on Pope Francis.
00:12:28.840If he had all those verbal things that he said
00:12:31.280that made people uncomfortable, including some of the more foul things. If he had said, if his
00:12:36.560actions were as orthodox sounding in their content as those things, I think a lot of conservatives
00:12:41.660would have liked Francis a lot more. They would have been like kind of these weirdly positive
00:12:45.260comparisons to Trump, right? Because what's the biggest problem most of us have with Trump,
00:12:49.580aside from maybe the relationship to Israel is his mouth or his online habits, right? But if
00:12:55.580his action, but a lot of his policy actions, a lot of us don't have that many problems with.0.85
00:12:59.600But if in the same way, Francis's words, hiring a hitman, too many homosexuals, all the what was the other one, the Italian slang term that I'm not I'm not going to try to butcher.
00:13:10.160And you're going to put this on YouTube and we've already, you know, towed a line a little bit.0.64
00:13:13.540I don't want to cross it, but you'd probably all know which one I'm talking about.
00:13:18.060If his actions had matched that, we would have a far less problem.
00:13:21.780And for that reason, I tend to think Leo is in some ways worse than Francis because his outward demeanor, his appearing in the way you expect a post-conciliar pope to appear, his chanting of Latin, his offering a mass publicly, which Francis hadn't done since like, what, 2016 or something.
00:13:44.080All of those things make it harder to point out that, you know, this same man on the throne of Peter who offers these reverent masses and chants in Latin and has a generally peaceful demeanor about him.
00:13:57.500And I will never criticize him for trying to intervene in the war on Iran or in any other war because the Roman pontiff should be a peacemaker.
00:14:05.520The Roman pontiff, let's say a world war were to break out, hopefully not.
00:14:10.460But if it were to happen, I would hope that the Roman pontiff would be working with whoever's trying to stop that war, regardless of whether, you know, my country is on the right side of it or not, that he should be trying to stop such a thing.
00:16:01.100I am reminded of a news story that I think I reported on on the 7th, 8th or 9th of May, right during the conclave, probably before the 9th since it was over right then.
00:16:14.280But there's a Spanish language news site called Info Vaticana.
00:16:18.080They are as notorious as your website is in North America.
00:16:21.200If you were walking around Rome and you saw James Martin and Austin Ivory sitting there and you made eye contact with them, they'd know who you were, I would assume, right?
00:16:41.180And the reporter walked up to him and was chatting with him, and then he identified who he was with, and they clammed up immediately.
00:16:46.820Because InfoVaticana, I often compare it to LifeSite News positively in Europe.
00:16:51.200When I reported that story, a lot of people didn't want to believe it because Austin Ivory is the papal biographer for Francis.
00:16:56.640If you still have an interest in the Francis papacy, there's a lot of books about Francis coming out right now written by people on our side of things.
00:17:02.580I'm actually not sure why, because most people have moved on.
00:17:06.100The biography written by Austin Ivory called The Great Reformer, the first edition and only the first edition is worth picking up if you can find a used copy.
00:17:14.340because he lets spill that Bergoglio as cardinal and before that archbishop was
00:17:19.880complicit in the disappearance of priests by the regime, the Argentinian regime under their
00:17:25.580dictatorship. That's kind of a big deal that he lets slip in there and future editions just
00:17:30.940magically don't have in there. And we're getting kind of weird reports like that from Peru about
00:17:35.480Leo, not about the regime or anything, but his involvement with liberation theology and those
00:17:40.980sorts of things. And so it is a matter of time, I think, before a lot of the people who are still
00:17:47.000wanting to give him the benefit of the doubt will stop. And which is why I'm, you know,
00:17:53.020remaining cautiously optimistic that people will take a more realistic assessment of things.
00:17:56.780But any realistic assessment, any resistance to the things he does has to be coupled with
00:18:02.720your own prayer and fasting life. You really, really, really should be praying for him.
00:18:06.700I have been saying lately that we are kind of in a testing time, I think, for a lot of us, because you can easily just get angry and just consume lots of angry content.
00:18:18.680But if you're not engaging in a spiritual work of mercy about this, where it's at least praying, picking up some old fashioned fasting, you should be doing those things, too.
00:18:28.160And also, you know, working on your own, whatever it is, whatever bad habits you have that send you to the confessional on a regular basis, you should be working on that with whatever way it is that you need to do it.
00:18:38.820Don't lose your soul over all of this.
00:18:40.620You know, if your reaction to the photos of Pope Leo when he was deacon or father Robert Prevost participating in that Pakamama ritual in the 1990s, if that sent you into a tailspin, you should probably be working on your spiritual life too.
00:18:56.620You cannot do this without some kind of prayer life.
00:18:59.920If I had my copy of The Little Office of the Blessed Virgin Mary at hand, I would.
00:19:03.760That's what I usually recommend to people.
00:28:16.000Does Leo need to sit down and watch some of those videos that nobody likes that the pro-life
00:28:21.140movement uses, you know, the shows in graphic detail and then shows and then says, please
00:28:27.180compare this to this and shows a we'll say a particularly rough ice arrest and try to say
00:28:32.920explain how this is the same do we need to go there but don't be shocked by it those watching
00:28:38.840this because pope leo very early on told told everybody who his two biggest like the two the
00:28:45.480two cardinals he admired the most in his life and they were cardinal soupich and cardinal bernardin
00:28:50.860both of chicago and if you know of bernardine's uh great contribution to the church it was the
00:28:58.560seamless garment heresy where you where they put widespread unemployment and the nuclear arms race
00:29:04.300on the same level as abortion same moral level i'm sorry they're not and no i don't advocate for
00:29:11.480the u.s government spending trillions of dollars on more nuclear weapons
00:29:14.800they're not the same it's not the same thing and we really need to stop having a blasé attitude0.74
00:29:21.980about abortion even catholics have this and i'm not talking about the pew research that shows like
00:29:26.880was it 40 of catholics who go to mass on a quote-unquote regular basis whatever that means
00:29:32.060these days they are they tend to call themselves pro-choice i'm not talking that i'm talking those
00:29:37.700of us who have the right opinion the right attitude about abortion but we see the statistics
00:29:43.340We just kind of glaze over because we live in a pagan culture that, for prosperity reasons, sacrifices babies and makes it expedient to do so in every single way possible.
00:30:02.900We criticized, rightly, the Trump administration for not doing anything about it to the point where they actually tried to do something about it.
00:30:09.060yesterday i think it was the day before from when we're recording this the supreme court
00:30:13.440said no you can't do that so that drug by mail is legal in the u.s and that is with a
00:30:20.380six three conservative majority of more than half the court are catholic that issue is on the same
00:30:26.960moral level we're told as a a horrible monster of a human being kidnapping a small child in this
00:30:36.800FedEx truck and then being sentenced to death. It's the same moral level. That happened right
00:30:39.800here in my state of Oklahoma. How is that the same? It's not. Logic says it's not. But we've
00:30:45.880been asked to stop thinking logically. I have seen bishops in the church argue that high levels of
00:30:53.200unemployment are the same as procuring an abortion, morally speaking. I've seen them say that about
00:30:59.660ICE agents rounding up people who should not be here, who have violated what the church has to
00:31:05.000say on immigration to be here. But sending them back apparently is the same as procuring an
00:31:09.740abortion. That is how you know we live in an insane time period in the history of the church.
00:31:16.000And I, for my money, think this is worse than the pornography and probably worse than the Aryan1.00
00:31:20.100crisis. Because I would bet that most of those Aryan bishops would have told you that, yeah,1.00
00:31:24.040procuring an abortion is evil. I have that suspicion. If you've ever actually read anything0.99
00:31:28.400some of those guys said, their errors were pretty serious theological ones, but they weren't moral
00:31:34.580ones. And it's the sins of the flesh that send more souls to hell than anything else. And that
00:31:39.120is what, that's right from Our Lady of Fatima, which is why the blessings document, Fiducia
00:31:46.540Supplicans, and that new synod document are so concerning. They clearly want to change the
00:31:51.520church's teaching on that. And Leo said that attitudes need to change before they can do
00:31:57.140things like women's ordination and changing the approach to homosexuality of the church.
00:32:01.820attitudes have to change and that's what i suspect is one of the core reasons for all
00:32:08.460these weird appointments he makes these bishops because yeah most of them speak in the united
00:32:13.680states you'll get these people who will say oh i knew this bishop when he was a priest he was my
00:32:18.380old parish priest he was great and then that bishop gets up there and the first thing he does
00:32:22.020starts spouting about abortion or in a really weird way or he starts spouting about immigration
00:32:26.380i suspect strongly that most of these appointments are about changing attitudes if you get a bishop
00:32:31.460to start teaching things that are, we'll say, a little more liberal, for lack of a better way to
00:32:36.060describe it, a little more permissive morally than what they're used to, attitudes will change.
00:32:42.260The faith is not transmitted bottom up. It's transmitted from those in authority down.
00:32:48.380Look in your own household. If you've done a competent job, not even a great job, just a
00:32:52.840competent job of passing the faith on to your children, they'll probably practice the faith
00:33:25.980You know, in college, I worked at my Newman Center, was a volunteer there.
00:33:30.620I logged into my personal Instagram for the first time in about, do it about once a year to keep the login working because I don't really care about Instagram.
00:33:37.900But I actually took a look for the first time in a long time.
00:33:41.180And most of the friends I had in college who had been in that Newman Center have left the faith.
00:33:48.400These were the young people most on fire for the faith who left the faith either over divorce or left the faith over, you know, the bedroom sins or they left the faith for some other reason.