WHEN IT COMES TO WHERE POPE FRANCIS WAS, POPE LEO IS A GENIUS—THE LIVING SUCESSOR OF SAINT PETER INTERPRETS POPE FRANCIS THROUGH A CORRECTIVE LENS THAT ISN’T A CANCELING OF POPE FRANCIS, BUT RATHER A PROPER INTERPRETATION OF POPE FRANCIS’ POPULIST JARGAN!

This Pillar article hits the nail on the head and all I can say, is WOW! Thank you Pope Leo for clarifying Pope Francis’ gray language and concepts!

Press the title for the Pillar’s full commentary:

In Argentina, Leo reinterprets Francis

Leo offered new interpretations to a number of controversial concepts from the Francis papacy.

NOVEMBER 11, 2026 • EDGAR BELTRÁN

Here are the money bytes that show Pope Leo is a genius when it comes to the confusion of some of Pope Francis’ words and how heterodox leftists in the Church tried to manipulate that gray area to change doctrine and pastoral care:

But while Francis’ phrase (todas, todas, todas) was often subject to broad interpretations, and seemed sometimes to be used to imply a kind of inclusion-without-conversion, Leo gave the words a definitively Christological interpretation:

“I would like to draw inspiration from those words to speak about what it means to live as disciples of Jesus: ’Todos hacia Cristo, todos con Cristo, todos como Cristo’” — “everyone toward Christ, everyone with Christ, everyone like Christ.”

…However, Leo went on to emphasize the need for conversion and repentance as part of the process of drawing near to Christ.

The same day, Leo directly warned clergy against the practice of justifying immoral practices in the name of being “pastoral” - a warning which some have taken as a rebuke against the interpretations of Francis which claimed such justification from perceived ambiguities in the late pontiff’s rhetoric. (Of course, Pope Leo must have been thinking about Jesuitical Father James Martin and others like him, maybe even Cardinal Fernandez!)

In his speech to the Argentinian clergy, religious and seminarians, Pope Leo offered a question drawn from the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius: “What has become disordered within us? In what ways have we failed God?” (Pope Leo knows that heterodox leftists in the Church are trying to erase that dreaded word  “disordered” when it comes to disordered sexual orientations and disordered affections! Brilliant!)

As Leo’s papacy moves forward, it increasingly appears that he intends to clarify some of Francis’ ambiguities by offering interpretations that frame both Francis and himself within the Church’s perennial tradition.

A hermeneutic of continuity, if you will.