IN MY CLAIRVOYANCE, I PREDICT THAT POPE LEO’S VISION AND DIRECTION FOR SYNODALITY WILL BE COOL, CALM, COLLECTED, NO DRAMA AND NO BEHIND-THE-SCENES MANIPULATION OF PEOPLE AND DOCUMENTS

It is clear that Pope Leo will continue synodality which began under St. Pope Paul VI and continued with every pope since then. I think the greatest controversy with Pope Francis’ version of synodality is that laity involved were given rights to vote on an equal footing with the bishops present. In addition to that, it took on a parliamentary thrust, politicizing synodality and polarizing participants into political camps, usually liberal and conservative, each promoting and lobbying for their own political interests, sometimes interests clearly heterodox, heretical or already settled by previous magisteriums of various popes. Synodality under Francis seem to be heading in the direction of creating a different Church by changing the doctrines and dogmas and morals of the Church, changing her True Faith!

Somehow, I think Pope Leo will address this aspect of Pope Francis’ synodality and make clear that ultimately the bishops in union with the Pope are the ones who rule, govern or lead, choose your word, as bishops with the fullness of orders. Everyone else, lower clergy, religious and laity participate in the three fold ministry of bishops to “teach, govern and sanctify” but don’t usurp the bishops’ role in this.

I think also that Pope Leo’s ecumenism and interreligous  dialogue and decisions will not in any way effect the doctrines and dogmas of the Church of the West and East. 

I hope that His Holiness will take concrete steps to bring Protestants back into the full communion of the Church. Here Pope Benedict’s genius with “Anglican” Ordinariate is a template. 

Given the fact that Martin Luther was an Augustinian priest, might it be possible that Leo an Augustinian priest might create a “Lutheran Ordinariate?”  Might there be a SSPX Ordinariate????  An Old Catholic Ordinariate???? A German Ordinariate?????

What I love about Leo is that he is clear, unambiguous and doesn’t gaslight Catholics in full communion with him.

I had missed this in Leo’s homily at his initiation as Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Christ and Supreme Pontiff:

"Where words take on ambiguous and ambivalent connotations, and the virtual world, with its altered perception of reality, takes over unchecked, it is difficult to build authentic relationships, since the objective and real premises of communication are lacking. … Furthermore, from the Christian perspective, truth is not the affirmation of abstract and disembodied principles, but an encounter with the person of Christ himself, alive in the midst of the community of believers."