Worrying Facts About New Pope

The conclave has chosen an anti-Trump, pro-Synod American – Robert Prevost, now known as Leo XIV – to succeed Francis.

Prevost is a vocal critic of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration and has consistently used his X account to promote material hostile to Trump’s immigration policies. 

Prevost reposted an article by NCROnline titled “JD Vance is wrong: Jesus doesn’t ask us to rank our love for others.” The article criticised the U.S. vice president for correctly arguing that we owe more immediate responsibility to our own family members and country than to those overseas – a position supported not only by the Bible but also taught by St. Thomas Aquinas and reiterated in the “social encyclicals” of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century popes. 

On an operational level, as head of the Congregation for Bishops, Prevost was instrumental in the removal of outspoken traditionalist Bishop Strickland from Tyler, Texas, and the leading French conservative bishop, Dominique Rey, from his diocese of Fréjus-Toulon.  

He has placed openly heterodox bishops in sees worldwide. The most notorious is Cardinal McElroy, who was installed as Archbishop of Washington despite being implicated in the cover up of sexual abuse by ex-Cardinal McCarrick  During COVID, Prevost imposed receiving Communion on the hand, and Confession by telephone, which is both invalid and sacrilegious. 

He also reposted a call for the abortion-tainted COVID-19 vaccines to be “available for all” and a USCCB post that called getting vaccinated “an act of love.” 

A strong supporter of Pope Francis’s radical agenda, Prevost supports “synodality.” He has suggested that “synodality” is the solution to “the current polarization currently gripping the Church.” He dismissal of those who “prefer the security of answers already experienced in the past”  is particularly concerning to traditionalists.

Prevost restated this goal during his speech from the loggia in his first public appearance following the conclave, in which he said, “we want to be a synodal Church.

On the plus side, the new Pope is staunchly pro-life and anti-abortion, and appears to have chosen his new name as a reference to his great predecessor Leo Xlll, whose Encyclical Rerum Novarum became a foundationstone of Catholic social doctrine, widely admired by Christian patriots such as GK Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.

Traditional Roman Catholics should pray that, now he has become Pope, their new leader is moved by God to restore unity and honour to his damaged church by working to reconcile traditionalists rather than persecute them, and by finally getting to grips with the homosexual abuse scandal which has done so much damage. IF he does this, Robert Prevost could make a fine pope; if he follows the pattern already observable from his past, he could help tear the Church apart, creating a permanent schism between the largely liberal West and the much more traditional faith in the fast-growing congregations in Africa and Asia.

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