As Pope Leo calls for “unity in diversity,” he bestows the pallium on McElroy and Weisenburger: men known for purging tradition and preaching heresy.
On the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, Pope Leo XIV distributed palliums to 54 archbishops, a symbol of unity with the See of Rome. But unity with what, exactly?
Among the recipients were two men whose records read like an indictment of the modern hierarchy: Cardinal Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., and Archbishop Edward Weisenburger of Detroit.
These weren’t obscure bishops elevated by accident. Their views, their policies, their scandals are all public. Leo knew exactly what he was doing.
Archbishop Weisenburger, appointed in February 2025, made headlines earlier this year by implementing one of the harshest applications of Traditionis Custodes in the world. His decree banned ad orientem worship, kneeling for Communion in the Novus Ordo, and ended nearly every diocesan Latin Mass, even outside of parishes.
The document, hastily removed from the archdiocesan website after public backlash, revealed an agenda not just of suppression but humiliation. Priests wishing to say the TLM had to write letters begging for permission, swearing fidelity to Vatican II and promising not to allow any lay faithful to attend.
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