CARE FOR OUR BODIES AND CARE FOR OUR HOME, THE EARTH—GOOD STEWARDSHIP

 Pope Leo, wearing the Saturno, a gift given to him and cordially received, did so at an “Laudatio Si” event at Castel Gandolfo. 

Laudatio Si is a wonderful encyclical by Pope Francis. When it was released and I was pastor of St. Joseph Church in Macon, I can a series of talks on it at our weekly Wednesday night Church supper and catechesis. 

Stewardship of the earth means care of the earth and not doing anything that permanently damages it leading to an ecological catastrophe for all life, human and other, in a premature way. 

Pope Leo knows the earth is made for man but mankind must care for the earth, use its resources in moderation, respecting, not worshiping, the ground on which we dig and walk! 

With that said, Lifesite has an interesting article on the disorders of sodomy. While the article is somewhat clinical and thus meant for mature audiences, I think that it would have been a better article and less strident against suffering homosexuals and thus less ideological, if it had focused on stewardship of our bodies and not doing anything unnatural that damages our bodies.

Apart from sodomy, this would include mutilation of our bodies through excessive plastic surgeries, piercings, tattoos and amputations like genital mutilation chemically or surgically of young people who are gender confused and thus need psychiatric, spiritual and moral counseling, not damage to their bodies and minds. 

We too can think of properly eating food and drink within moderation and avoiding that which kills us prematurely, like the highly processed foods we have in the USA that most people eat the most of avoiding that which is healthy. 

So, with that said, read this “R” rated article meant for mature audiences; press the title:

Science agrees with the Catholic Church: Homosexuality is disordered (It should have been sodomy and unnatural sex acts are disordered and immoral as heterosexuals also practice sodomy and unnatural sex acts.)

WHEN A SATURDAY AUDIENCE WITH POPE LEO BECOME A MINI-RETREAT…

 During the Jubilee year, the Holy Father gives an additional audience on Saturdays as His Holiness gives  on Wednesdays. Every time I hear the pope speaks, it is packed with so much food for thought and our Catholic life. Today’s talk is no different. It is like a “mini-retreat”.

I recommend you listen to it. It’s about Saint Helena finding the true Cross in the earth of the outskirts of Jerusalem, her conversion to the Faith despite her husband Constantine I and their son, Constantine who allowed the Church to come out of the ground/catacombs and into the lives of cultures and societies. 

The metaphor of digging into the earth, especially like that of children, is brilliant and breaking the crust of the earth to find the treasure of God, be it the true Cross or the Church in the catacombs. 

Pope Leo concludes by saying we dig to find that treasure, the Kingdom of God. Don’t trample upon it but discover it and allow God to change you! Powerful stuff!

POPE LEO TEACHES AND CORRECTS WHAT SYNODALITY IS USING A TALK ABOUT MARIOLOGY TO DO SO—REFINING POPE!

 

In simple talks to various groups in the Church, Pope Leo has already clarified so much and his clarifications don’t leave you scratching your head thinking the pope has just talked out of both sides of his mouth. There is only one way to interpret what Pope Leo says and it is what he means. That’s magisterium!

I have embedded my most humble, remarkable comments in red in the text of the pope’s elocution:

Audience with participants in the Congress of the Pontifical International Marian Academy, 06.09.2025

This morning, in the Paul VI Hall, the Holy Father Leo XIV received in audience the participants in the Congress of the Pontifical International Marian Academy.

The following is the Pope’s address to those present: 

Address of the Holy Father

In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Peace be with you!

Your Eminences, Your Excellencies,

Distinguished Religious, Civil and Military Authorities,
Dear Ambassadors and Scholars of Mariology,
Dear brothers and sisters!

I am pleased to receive you at the conclusion of the Congress of the International Marian Academy.  I greet the President, the Secretary, the members of the Executive Council, the collaborators and all the benefactors.

The Virgin Mary, Mother of the Church, teaches us to be the holy People of God; hence the importance of this Pontifical Academy, a forum for thought, spirituality and dialogue, tasked with coordinating the studies and scholars of Mariology, in the service of a genuine and fruitful pietas mariana.

At this 26th Congress, you pondered whether the Church’s Marian dimension is a remnant of the past or a prophecy for the future, capable of freeing minds and hearts from the customs and nostalgia of a “Christian society” that no longer exists.   You have discussed the goals and values that Marian devotion offers to believers, considering whether they support the hope and consolation that the Church is called to proclaim.  You have recognized in the jubilee and in synodality two biblical and theological themes that effectively express the vocation and mission of the Mother of the Lord. (It’s coming, a clearer understanding of what the heck synodality is apart from lobbying, lobbying, lobbying  for this, that and the other in a political way, and yacking, yacking, yacking about it to boot and all the money spent by the Vatican to make all of this nonsense happen!)

As a “jubilant” woman, Mary is always ready to respond by first listening to the Word, according to the disposition described by Saint Augustine: “All consult you about what they want, but they do not always hear the answer they want.  Your most faithful servant is the one who does not seek to hear from you what he wants, but rather to want what he hears from you” (Confessions, X, 26).  As a “synodal” woman, she is fully and maternally engaged in the action of the Holy Spirit, who summons those who previously believed they had reasons to remain divided due to mutual distrust and even enmity as brothers and sisters (cf. Mt 5:43-48). (In one quote from Saint Augustine, Pope Leo clarifies synodality, not only listening to one another, but far more importantly, listening to God and hearing not what we want to hear, but rather what we hear from God! Folks, our Catholic Faith in out in the open, everyone with some prayer and work can discover her teachings concerning the faith and morals of the Church. We can hear what we want or we can hear what God says. Synodality is hearing what God says, which we don’t make up, but receive and it is out there in the open available to all, nonbelievers can hear it in natural law. Believers have that too but also the Deposit of Faith of the Church! Synodality is not about changing God but us!)

A Church with a Marian heart always better preserves and understands the hierarchy of truths of faith, integrating mind and heart, body and soul, universal and local, person and community, humanity and cosmos.  It is a Church that does not shy away from asking herself, others and God uncomfortable questions — “how shall this be?” (Lk 1:34) — and to walk the demanding paths of faith and love — “Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord; let it be done to me according to your word” (Lk 1:38). (Folks, this is powerful stuff for the proper understanding of synodality. Compare this to what the leaders of synodality at the Vatican have written, which is pure garbage and lacking any coherent understanding of Christ and His Holy Spirit! What they say omits Christ altogether, it is pure garbage!)

A Marian pietas and practice oriented towards the service of hope and consolation frees us from fatalism, superficiality and fundamentalism; it takes all human realities seriously, starting with the least and the discarded; it contributes to giving voice and dignity to those who are sacrificed on the altars of ancient and new idols. (All of us are being sacrificed on the altars of political ideologies opposed to God and Church, LGBTQ+++ ideologies that corrupt the young in mind and body and morals, to those who sacrifice the lives of innocent babies on the altars of pro-choice demons. In the USA political ineptness allowed millions of undocumented migrants to enter the country, most of whom are good people, hardworking and now contributing to our society, only to have a new political ideology sacrifice them not by making legal room for them due to the merits they have indicated, but kicking them out in the most maliciously ways possible!  Pope Leo knows this and points it out for those who have eyes to see and hears to hear!)

Since the vocation of the Mother of the Lord is understood as the vocation of the Church, Marian theology has the task of cultivating in all the People of God, first of all, a willingness to “start afresh” with God, his Word and the needs of our neighbor, with humility and courage (cf. Lk 1:38-39). It must also cultivate the desire to walk towards the unity that flows from the Trinity, in order to bear witness to the world, to the beauty of faith, the fruitfulness of love and the prophecy of hope that does not disappoint.  Contemplating the mystery of God and history of Mary’s inner gaze protects us from the distortions of propaganda, ideology and unhealthy information, which can never speak a disarmed and disarming word, and opens us to divine gratuitousness, which alone makes it possible for people, populations and cultures to walk together in peace (cf. Lk 24:36, 46-48). (In my most humble opinion, walking towards unity, I prefer “pilgrimage to walking”  towards unity isn’t that difficult. Receive the Deposit of Faith and Morals of the Church as these have been handed down, but try to give a rational apologetic for these teachings to modern people, don’t change it to what modern people are getting on the altars of secular idols!)

This is why the Church needs Mariology.  It should be considered and promoted in academic centers, shrines and parish communities, associations and movements, institutes of consecrated life, as well as in places where contemporary cultures are forged, valuing the limitless inspiration offered by art, music and literature.

In recent years, the Marian Academy has also launched various initiatives to advance the image and message of the Mother of Jesus as a way of encounter and dialogue between cultures.  Indeed, as the perfect cooperator with the Holy Spirit, she never ceases to open doors, build bridges, break down walls and help humanity to live in peace and in the harmony of diversity.

I thank you for this ecclesial service, which continues to remind us that the Church always has a Marian “face” and a Marian praxis.  I also congratulate those who have submitted their musical and artistic works for the annual international award “Mary, Way of Peace between Cultures.”

Dear friends, may your Academy always be a home and a school open to all those who wish to place their Marian studies at the service of the Church.  For this I pray and offer you my blessing.  Thank you.

BOMBSHELL! POPE LEO XIV BRINGS BACK THE SATURNO AND WEARS IT! THIS IS TRULY A LIBERATED POPE!

 Somehow, I can’t seeing Pope Francis doing this…

EVEN MARRIED PROTESTANT CLERGY CAN BE SEXUALLY IMMORAL: MAYBE CLERGY OF ALL STRIPES SHOULD HAVE A. RECOGNIZED GROUP, SIMILAR TO LGBTQ+++TO REGULARIZE THE ACCEPTANCE OF SEXUAL IMMORALITY?

A cringeworthy photo FAUX PAS too!

The pastor of the prominent and historic First Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, NC, was fired for serial adultery and immoral online internet activities. 

I went to their website and saw this request for prayers at the top of their webpage:

With support and guidance from the Presbytery of Charlotte, First Presbyterian Church, its leaders, and congregation are navigating this time prayerfully, with care and transparency. The church will continue all regularly scheduled worship services and ministries. For church members in need of pastoral support, please contact Rev. Anna Dickson. We ask that you keep our community in your prayers as we cope with recent news.

And then I scrolled down and saw this photo blunder! YIKES!!!!

A LESS PAPAL-CENTRIC CHURCH? POPE LEO’S APPROACH? NOT A BAD THING!

 I don’t know who Father Clinton Sensat is, but he certainly makes good sense! I saw this on a shared facebook page:

You know what I like the most about Pope Leo XIV?

He won't indulge our addiction to papal headlines. 

Some months ago I pointed to what I felt (and feel) is a real problem in the Church. That problem is a hyper-fixation on the papacy. A number of commenters didn't like that, but I still stand by it. People ignore their pastors, their bishops, their neighbors, and focus on the pope as the only true or authentic indicator of what it means to be Catholic. 

I said then, and I repeat now, that this is not the Church Jesus Christ established. The pope is the successor of Peter, yes, and the visible head of the Church on earth, yes, but that doesn't flatten everyone else in the Church into insignificance. 

And yet, for decades now, getting worse every year, and due to a conglomeration of causes, people only pay attention to the pope. Other leaders in the Church only momentarily grab our attention when a) they're on our ideological side and do something we consider "courageous" or b) they do something scandalous. 

Scripture can indicate why this is a problem - 

Peter was the head of the Apostles and the first pope. What if the New Testament therefore ignored Paul or John or Matthew or Thomas or Mary Magdalene or Stephen? How unbearably cheapened would our picture of the early disciples be if the New Testament had the same obsession as the news? Can you imagine a Bible that fixated on Peter the way the internet fixates on the pope?

It's not healthy. 

Enter Leo XIV. 

He has cut off our supply. People still scramble to elevate the most normal, humdrum parts of his life into epic news, but it doesn't get much traction. He hasn't released his first encyclical yet. He hasn't had a major apostolic journey. He hasn't made huge changes to the Curia. We're getting twitchy for headlines, and so we're reduced to the following:

- he's going to live with some Augustinians. It's pretty standard for a pope to have a group of priests live with him, but to read the forced headlines you'd think Leo had invented religious life. 

- he met with Cardinal Burke. Exultation! He met with James Martin. Dismay! Note that we don't really know what was said at these meetings - he just met with people, as part of his daily agenda, and the internet tried to spin that into signs in the heavens and portents of things to come. 

He's a quiet man, our pope, except when it comes to two things: Jesus Christ and the cause of peace. He hasn't said, so I don't want to speculate too far, but I suspect his quiet is trying to teach us something about the papacy. 

After all, he saw all those papal headlines of the past too. If he seems so intent on not making them, perhaps that in itself is the lesson.

Whatever the case may be, my point is this: honor Peter. 

But don’t neglect Paul and John and Stephen and Mary Magdalene. 

The Church is bigger than the pope, and crucial things happen in places other than the Vatican. Pray God that Leo XIV has a long reign, a reign long enough for us to go through withdrawals and into recovery. 

Then we can focus on the good of the Church at home, and not be so fixated on the Church in Rome.

POPE LEO XIV IS IN CONTINUITY WITH HIS PRE-VATICAN II PREDECESSOR, POPE LEO XIII AS IT CONCERNS NATURAL LAW AMONG OTHER THEOLOGIES…

We know that Pope Leo XIV has spoken about natural law more than once in His Holiness’ short papacy. As we know, Pope Leo XIV has specifically stated that he took the papal name Leo XIV specifically referring his papacy to Leo XIII. Although this does not exclude Pope Leo the Great.

Most Catholics, when we think about natural law think that it refers primarily to sexual morality and the proper place of sex for unitive and procreative purposes, exclusively within  a licit marriage. 

It is that but much more also.

Here’s an AI summary of natural law as Pope Leo XIII would have understood it and now our very own Pope Leo XIV:

AI Overview

Pope Leo XIII used natural law as the basis for affirming workers' rights and outlining the duties of employers and society in Rerum Novarum. He defined natural law as God's eternal reason, "written and engraved in the mind of every man" and accessible through human reason. He argued that laws conflicting with natural law are unjust and lack binding force, and that the state should intervene in economic affairs only to protect workers and the common good.
 

How Pope Leo XIII Used Natural Law

• Dignity of Work:

  Leo XIII's use of natural law centered on the inherent dignity of human beings and the concept of work. He argued that work is not merely a commodity but a fundamental aspect of human life and a way to provide for one's family. 
• Worker Rights:

  Working from the foundation of natural law, Leo established specific rights for workers. These include: 

  • Just Wages: A wage sufficient to support a family. 
  • Safe Working Conditions: The right to reasonable hours, rest periods, and safe environments. 
  • Family Life: The integrity of family life and the right to provide for one's children's necessities. 
  • Freedom: The freedom to spend wages as one sees fit and to attend to religious obligations, including not working on Sundays or holy days. 
  • Associations: The right to form worker associations for mutual support and to defend their rights. 
• Delineating Employer and State Responsibilities:

  • Employer Duties: Employers have a duty to provide work appropriate to the worker's strength and age, and to respect their dignity. 
  • State Intervention: The state should not overreach but may intervene when necessary to protect workers' rights and ensure fair practices. 
• Just Laws and Civil Disobedience:

  Leo XIII, echoing St. Augustine, asserted that any civil law contradicting natural law is not a true law and lacks binding authority. This implies that citizens are not bound to obey such unjust laws. 

Key Concepts from Natural Law

• Reason as God's Law:

  Leo XIII viewed natural law as God's eternal law, made known to individuals through their own reason. 
• Universal Validity:

  He emphasized that natural law is universally valid and serves as a fundamental compass for ethical action and legislation, binding Christians and non-Christians alike. 
• Foundation for Social Order:

  Natural law provides a shared moral framework for society, guiding legislative action and restoring dignity to human beings by grounding societal structures in the inviolable integrity of the human person. 

POPE LEO’S FIRST CANONIZATION ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, WILL BE CELEBRATED PRIMARILY IN LATIN WITH SOME GREEK

The canonization for Blesseds Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati on Sunday, September 7, will be Pope Leo’s first. The booklet provided by the Vatican shows that the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass will be celebrated primarily in Latin. 

The chants look quite beautiful too.

YOU CAN SEE THE BOOKLET HERE

LITURGICAL NONSENSE AND LAY DEACONS…

I am not sure if it is a rumor or the truth, but who knows and at this point I am beginning not to care. At any rate, it is reported that a certain Conventional Franciscan Bishop, suffering from micromanagement megalomania (my opinion, I am not a psychiatrist) will order that school Masses project on a screen all the music that the students are expected to sing (or is it chant?).

Just a disclaimer, on occasion I celebrate Mass at a high school gym here in the Diocese of Charleston. I am edified that the leaders at the school ask the kids to kneel on the hard gym floor when the laity normally kneel. Some kneel for Holy Communion on the hard gym floor too.

But, they also project the words of hymns on the gym wall, which means that the lights have to be somewhat low for the words to be seen, which means, I, in my old age, have a hard time reading the Roman Missal, but I digress. In a gym with no hymnbooks, it isn’t a major problem for me but I normally hate it, hate it, hate it! Did I say I hate it?

The other rumor is that the Conventional Franciscan Bishop in my province is asking that children be designated as Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion. What the hell?

Btw, I have seen photos of kids distributing Holy Communion at teen or school Masses. It is dumb to say the least, but in the name of inclusivity and active participation, one finds this dumb practice in some places and maybe more if this rumor about a diocese in my province is true.

Since Pope Francis of happy memory opened the once exclusive ministries for those studying for Holy Orders of reader and acolyte to lay men and women and I guess those confused about their gender, so-called trans, I think that the norm should be at all Masses that only those officially installed in these two ministries are chosen to read at Mass and distribute Holy Communion.

The age limit for these ministries should be 21, (although canon law may already have an age limit?) the same age one can buy alcohol for consumption and guns in some places. No one younger! They must have gone through a formal preparation for this ministry developed by the diocese and there must be a ministerial component to this ministry in terms of visiting the sick and homebound and how to do this properly, maintain proper boundaries and all the other legal concerns we have in a litigious society. 

Does anyone remember when the Permanent diaconate was restored in the USA and instead of calling it the Permanent diaconate, it was referred to as the lay diaconate. Most laity actually called them lay deacons as they continued with their marriage and secular jobs in the world, thus the laity bringing Holy Orders to the secular sphere. 

Why not call installed acolytes, male or female, properly formed and trained and no younger than 21, lay deacons? Wouldn’t that placate women who like many men lust for churchy power and authority, what is euphemistically called “empowerment”?

GIVEN HOW THINGS LOOK, THE MEETING WITH THE JEWISH PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL WAS MORE IMPORTANT TO POPE LEO THAN POPE LEO’S MEETING WITH JESUITICAL FATHER JAMES MARTIN, SJ…DON’T YOU AGREE?

 This is the photo of Pope Leo meeting with the prime minister of Israel this morning. Since the Prime Minister isn’t a Catholic but rather a Jew, the pope wears the mozzetta without the ornate papal stole. It is a very cordial picture of the two together, no?

Please note how Pope Leo is dressed and how the photo taken with Jesuitical Father James Martin, SJ is so different than the one with the pope and the Jewish Prime Minister of Israel.

There was no Vatican News coverage of the meeting of Pope Leo and Jesuitical Father James Martin, SJ, but Vatican News covered this important meeting with an article which you can read by pressing its title:

Pope to Israeli President: Urgent ceasefire and aid for Gaza

During a private audience, Pope Leo XIV and Isaac Herzog discuss the need for an urgent ceasefire and unimpeded aid access for Gaza, as well as the liberation of all remaining hostages and a two-state solution as the only path to peace.

BOMBSHELL! WILL BISHOP GEORG BATZING OF LIMBURG, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GRMANY AND PRESIDENT OF THE BISHOPS’ CONFERENCE OF GERMANY GLOAT ABOUT HIS AUDIENCE WITH POPE LEO LIKE JESUITICAL FATHER JAMES MARTIN, SJ DID WITH HIS AUDIENCE? TIME WILL TELL

  “If he (Pope Leo) supports our demands, fine. If not, we will judge and condemn him as we did with Francis.” 

THE SPIRIT OF VATICAN II CRUSHES ST. JOHN ABBEY AND THEIR MONKS WITH A CRUSHING, DEATH DEALING BLOW—READ ALL ABOUT IT, ON LINE, NOT PRINT…

 READ “THE NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENTS” TAKE ON THIS CRUSHING BLOW TO SAINT JOHN ABBEY AND LITURGICAL PRESS HERE!

Here is a money-byte from the article I link above: 

 Nothing specific is said about why exactly the journal is ending publication, but its website says that it is done with “a sense of both fulfillment and regret”, language more than a little reminiscent of that used by dying religious congregations when they announce that they are no longer accepting new members, and are making plans to quietly disappear into homes for the elderly. But driven by morbid curiosity, I discovered one of the reasons.

 Here is the abstract of an article published in Worship in 2023 by one Isaac S. Villegas, a Mennonite minister and PhD student in religion at Duke Univ., titled “Son of Man … Vindicated by Her (sic) Deeds”. (I use the stars to keep search engines from finding these polluted words on this site.)

 Feminist sensibilities have led to the production of worship resources with g*nd*r*d language that includes masculine and feminine imagery for God. This essay extends this trajectory of inclusion by arguing for the use of multiple g*nd*r*d pronouns for Jesus Christ in our liturgical life in order to break free from the h*t*ronormativ* confines of the male-female binary. My argument follows the lead of the g*nd*rqu**r use of pronouns for Jesus in Matthew 11:19. I turn to the guidance of transg*nd*r insights to reorient our language—a reorientation which involves the empowerment of trans-p*opl* in worship leadership. 

Those whom the devil would destroy, he first afflicts with madness. Behold, now the time for destruction is at hand.

MY PRIVATE AUDIENCE WITH POPE FRANCIS AND ALL THE THINGS I HEARD HIM SAY IN MY HEAD ABOUT MY WIDELY READ SOUTHERN ORDERS…

Yes, your eyes are deceiving you. This is not an AI reproduction. Yes, that is me next to Pope Francis. 

I heard him say that I should go forward with my wildly and widely read blog, Southern Orders and His Holiness is thinking of moving forward with changing the name of the Sacrament of Holy Orders to Southern Orders. His Holiness confirmed what I was fantasizing about and thus we can breathe a sigh of relief.

Of course, I asked the Holy Father how he could changed Holy Orders to Southern Orders and he exclaimed that it’s what I and my readers want and that he would use the smoke and mirrors approach with the bishops by saying he had the authority to change Holy Orders to Southern Orders under the doctrine of the development of names, as the Church has always taught and acted.

The Holy Father went on to exclaim to me why it is dumb of anyone to complain about the name change after all he was thinking about changing the name “Mass” to Divine Meal! What’s the difference! It’s the same thing! Six of one and a half of dozen of the other. Only the backwardists and rigid traditionalists will complain, but to hell with them, he laughed.

My overall take away from my private meeting with Pope Francis, which the Vatican graciously confirmed by posting their photo of me with Pope Francis, is that Pope Francis gets me and my Southern Orders and loves and includes my blog readers in his prayers.  And that’s good news for us as I am hearing that Pope Leo will continue Pope Francis’ inclusivity of my friends and of Southern Orders. 

Oh, he also said to me in my head, that it might take longer than I expect for Holy Orders to be renamed Southern Orders as there is a lot on His Holiness’ plate, like writing Traditionis Custodes and Amoris Laetitia and Fiducia Supplicans. 

Pope Francis also affirmed me in ditching fancy clerical garb and dressing like a lay slob and encouraged me to use liturgical vestments without embellishments and the chasuble is the symbol which doesn’t need symbols placed on it. 

Then before I knew it and before our Holy Father Francis could change Holy Orders to Southern Orders, the Lord called him home to heaven. I know this, because Pope Leo XIV stated that it is so. That saves the Church a heap of money doing away with the expensive canonization process. Everyone knows the Vatican is financially strapped at this time.

I am glad to be in good company with Jesuitical Father James Martin, SJ. He too had the same experience with Pope Leo as I had with Pope Francis.

He heard in his head that Pope Leo would be as welcoming of sinners as Pope Francis was and he would continue that welcome and that Fr. Martin should continue his outreach to sinners, because, after all, he’s an ordained a priest and that’s what priest are supposed to do.  Pope Leo lamented the fact that Pope Francis had not had a chance to change the name of Holy Orders to Southern Orders but that he agrees with Pope Francis on that point and will continue to study changing Holy Orders to Southern Orders.

Then, reflecting on the financial upward mobility of the LGBTQ +++ ideologues and the disproportionate influence they have on world politics and immorality, Fr. Martin, as reported by the Jesuitical America Magazine said this, which is similar to what Pope Francis told me about His Holiness’ busy papacy and priorities. I wonder if, like me, Fr. Martin, SJ will have to wait for the next papacy to fulfill all his fantasies? Time will tell as Fr. Martin, himself, seeing the delayed handwriting on the wall acknowledges:

 "So while LGBTQ issues are on his radar, other things may be more pressing for the time being. And even when addressing LGBTQ issues, he may not move as fast as some might like. By the same token, he may move far too fast for others. But my overall sense is that he "gets it" and that he is ready to continue Francis' legacy of openness, and that is surely good news." [NOT!] 😩

POPE LEO BLESSED HELLS’ ANGELS!

 Well, I am sure some of Hells’ Angels are boasting of Pope Leo’s affirmation and blessing of their lifestyles so they don’t feel excluded but included.

WATCH THE FACEBOOK VIDEO HERE AS PROOF! 

The Vatican filmed this as confirmation of Pope Leo’s largesse!