When Cardinal Prevost emerged on May 8, 2025 as Leo XIV, many Catholics expected either a quiet administrator or a modest corrective to the turbulence of the Francis years. Some members of “Trad Inc.” even thought he might become the savior of Tradition.
But when in his first speech on the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica he spoke of wanting to be “a synodal church,” we should have known better.
Leo’s first year confirmed something far darker: continuity with the heretic Francis and his campaign to wipe the Catholic Church off the face of the earth. Not only that, day after day we received irrefutable evidence that the “Bergoglian” revolution was not only not ending but intensifying in far more destructive ways than over the previous 12 years.
Even though Vatican sources and promoters of the Synodal sect reported on his statements and acts as a faithful applications of recent magisterium, it is clear to those with eyes to see that the same words and actions are damning proof of further doctrinal erosion, liturgical dilution, and practical indifferentism. To catalogue the atrocities of the man known as Leo XIV in the space is impossible.
The writing was on the wall almost immediately after his election. On May 19, 2025, in one of his first major addresses to representatives of false religions, Leo thanked them for their presence and prayers and insisted that Catholics must not create “opposition between one church and another.” He called for dialogue and bridge-building, and he invoked Nostra Aetate while speaking warmly to Jewish and Muslim leaders. He would continue to repeat the familiar Vatican II formulation that Muslims “worship God, who is one… merciful and almighty” on numerous occasions during the first year of his tenure. For faithful Catholics, this was an unmistakable declaration that ecumenism and interreligious dialogue would remain central.
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