WHERE PETER IS SEEMS TO NOT LIKE POPE LEO’S POPULARITY OVER POPE FRANCIS AND WHILE TRYING TO EQUATE THE TWO’S CONTINUITY MAKES THE CASE AS TO WHY POPE LEO IS PREFERRED OVER POPE FRANCIS

 The above video is an interesting video from the ultramontane blog “Where Peter is”. I feel their pain.

When Pope Francis was elected, the ultramontane priest I was, tried hard to see the continuity between Francis and Benedict. I really, really, really tried hard to do so and promote it on my blog. 

But almost immediately after Pope Francis election, rank and file laity starting coming to me about their concerns with the new pope and the guilt they felt for feeling the way they did toward Pope Francis.  There was a great deal of anxiety. And that anxiety continued unabated until the last breath of Pope Francis. 

Now the poor person in the video above is all anxious and a bit mad that Pope Leo is like a breath of fresh air blowing gently throughout the Church and world. It just isn’t fair in his eyes that Francis wasn’t embraced in the same way, because, after all, they are exactly the same except they aren’t Leo is truly humble. That’s a big difference even if there is continuity between the two. 

It as obvious Pope Francis preferred the direction the Church was taking before the elections of St. Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. It was clear to me and most in the Church that Pope Francis wanted to undo all the good things his previous two predecessors had done and that he wanted to use a manipulated form of synodality to create a different Church than the one even Vatican II brought about. He waned a kind of Anglican community that allows for all the world wants the Church to be especially in its “woke” sexuality. 

No one senses that with Pope Leo. There is a great sigh of relief. It seems we can go back to the “duh” question again, “Is the pope Catholic” and know the answer is yes. 

But make no mistake, like all of his post-Vatican II successors, Pope Leo is a Vatican II pope. He will not reject or cancel the Council or any other Council of the Church or any other pope. That, I think, is a big difference between Pope Leo and his immediate predecessor, Francis seem to want to cancel the pre-Vatican II Church and her councils and popes. Leo doesn’t seem to want to do this.