At Pope Leo’s Wednesday General Audience on October 1st, Bishop Stephen Parkes, Bishop of Savannah (my bishop), who is on his Jubilee Year pilgrimage to Rome, greets Pope Leo XIV.
When Bishop Parkes introduced himself as the Bishop of Savannah, it was then that Pope Leo exclaimed, “Oh! Southern Orders!” And of course, why wouldn’t His Holiness?
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So now you know who some of those Vatican viewing statistics are coming from!
https://www.reuters.com/world/pope-leos-critique-trump-ends-honeymoon-with-conservative-catholics-2025-10-02/
David Gibson, a U.S. academic who follows the papacy, said conservative Catholics had grasped at Leo's attempts to foster unity as if he were endorsing their entire agenda.
"Leo was never going to do that," Gibson, director of Fordham University's Center on Religion and Culture, told Reuters. "The two popes are different men, but both men of tradition and of the centre."
Many years ago Bishop Lessard, of happy memory, recounted an ad limina visit with the very ill Pope John Paul II. When he was introduced as the Bishop of Savannah, John Paul looked up and said, "Ah, Pulaski!"
The Holy Father recalled the history of his Polish compatriot, Count Casimir Pulaski, who was killed in the Revolutionary War on October 11, 1779, in a battle during the siege of Savannah.
You mean John Paul didn’t say: Abortion is Healthcare?
I think what you just said about the pope is called “claumny” in Catholic moral theology and qualifies as a mortal sin. Of course for it to be mortal and not venial, you need to know that it is wrong and knowing that it is wrong, you commit the sin and finally with full consent of the will. In the pre-Vatican II Church and her glorious traditions of that period, you could well be excommunicated for such claumny against the reigning pope. Just saying.
Leo professes his faith in god and the Catholic faith each time he says mass. There’s a meaning behind the saying ‘is the pope Catholic?”
"Is the Pope Catholic?" is an idiomatic rhetorical question used to express that something is obviously true or certain, like saying "Are fish waterproof?" or "Does the sun rise in the east?". It functions as a humorous, informal way of saying "of course" or "obviously yes" in response to a question whose answer should be self-evident.
Asking such a question exposes you as a likely sede!
Here's a letter Pope Leo should be reading from a priest in the Diocese of Charlotte. Now this letter is speaking truth to power!
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-letter-from-priest-of-jesus-christ-to.html#more
An anonymous letter isn’t speaking truth to power!
Tm, you didn’t speak the truth. You gave a twisted interpretation to some events and gave your opinion.
I’m sure you’ll find Leo is staunchly pro life but denouncing Durbin in public is not the same thing.
How so? Are its statements rendered false by virtue of the author's anonymity?
Nick
How so? Are its statements rendered false by virtue of the author's anonymity?
"Speaking truth to power" means having the courage to confront authority figures or institutions with facts and moral clarity, especially when those in power are acting unjustly or promoting falsehoods. The phrase originated with the Quakers in the mid-20th century and carries the weight of standing up for what is right, even when there is personal risk or potential negative consequences for one's career or livelihood.
Courage and Risk: This action requires bravery because the person doing it may face retaliation, damage to their reputation, or other negative consequences.
Hiding behind anonymity involves no courage or risk. It’s little more than a green ink letter.
So it doesn't meet your definition, custom-built to exclude the letter in question. Convenient. But it's evident truth and power are involved, so there we are.
Nick
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