In his recent interview, Fr. Pagliarani remarked on the current “new pontificate” (Leo XIV’s) and noted that “the major orientations already taking shape… only confirm an explicit determination to preserve the line of Pope Francis as an irreversible trajectory for the entire Church.” In other words, Leo XIV is doubling down on Francis’s revolution, which itself was the fruit of Paul VI’s revolution. Francis had pushed modernism to new heights (or depths), and Leo XIV, far from correcting course, is continuing the plunge.
Under Francis (2013–2023), the Vatican exhibited an openly progressive, anti-Traditional agenda: undermining moral teachings (e.g. winking at cohabitation and adultery), persecuting the Latin Mass communities (through Traditionis Custodes in 2021), and promoting religious indifferentism (Francis’s infamous 2019 Abu Dhabi declaration claimed that God wills the diversity of religions). Many Catholics naively hoped that a new Pope might reverse some of these outrages; but Leo XIV has instead made clear that Francis’s course is “irreversible.”
What does this mean practically? It means that Leo XIV’s “Catholicism” is even more modernist and unrecognizable than Paul VI’s was.
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