CUTTING POPE LEO XIV SOME SLACK AS HE BEGINS TO REALIZE THAT INDEED HIS HOLINESS IS THE SUPREME, AND LET ME EMPHASIZE, THE SUPREME PONTIFF…

Pope Leo has been pope for only four months or so. Within the first weeks of His Holiness’ papacy, he asked that people be patient with him as he’s “new on the job.”

He didn’t clarify to what he was referring. But he did say early on that Pope Francis was in heaven. It’s one thing for a bishop or a priest or a lay person to say so and so is in heaven in the pejorative way, it is quite another thing for the pope, any pope, to say it apart from a formal beatification or canonization liturgy. That’s a learning curve for Pope Leo formed under the soft theology, bleeding heart, post Vatican II Church where Requiem Masses are now celebrations of life and an informal canonization or beatification.

Pope Leo, be very circumspect with your language.

So too, in the interview about LGBTQ+++ ideologies, Pope Leo, laudably so, said that the sexual moral teachings of the Church will not change nor the nature of licit marriage between one man and one woman for the begetting of children and forming of Christian families. (I’ve paraphrased that). 

But then he said, and without thinking, “I don’t think.” 

Holy Father, you are the Supreme Pontiff! Pope Francis no longer is. When he was pope, and we were trying to decipher what he was saying on this, that and the other, often commentators who were orthodox would say, “He’s not going to change doctrine, I DON’T THINK!” Which meant, well, there’s a possibility it might, under Pope Francis!” One just wasn’t sure!

Pope Leo, be clear and definitive! 

Also, let’s recover the masculinity of the Magisterium of Holy Mother Church. Sometimes you have to be as blunt as Charlie Kirk was in getting across what is definitive in the Church’s teaching and what God expects of His people. A man must be a father or a spiritual father or a Holy Father. A man must be manly and definitive. Let biological women bring the nuances.