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Pope Leo XIV

A Critique of Leo XIV’s Comments on Changing Church Doctrine

A SLIP OF THE TONGUE OR A SIGN OF THINGS TO COME?

Monica Migliorino Miller

November 2025

If popes must grant interviews to the media, then perhaps reporters should be required to submit questions in advance, to give him time to discern his responses.

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The Church’s Civilizational Task Under Leo XIV

CONFRONTING A NEW ENEMY: LATE-STAGE GLOBALISM

Michael S. Rose

September 2025

Traditional societies, however flawed in practice, at least gestured toward transcendent goods in their structure and aspirations.

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Medium Unwell

A NEW AGE OF NEW AGE

Jason M. Morgan

July-August 2025

We are caught in a new age of New Age, a time of technological idolatry in which everyone is fighting in a spiritual war that so very few even realize is underway.

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Leo XIV: A Rough Sketch

THE ‘CALM POPE’

Pieter Vree

July-August 2025

Peace has been a consistent message of Leo’s early in his tenure, and in this he is in continuity with his 20th- and 21st-century predecessors.

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Farewell, Francis. Hello, Leo XIV

TIME TO PRAY & HOPE

Pieter Vree

June 2025

Perhaps we'll get concern for the poor, advocacy for peace, and a reaching out to believers on the margins along with a restoration of jettisoned elements of Catholic tradition.

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Symposium on the Greatest Threats to the Church

Pope Leo must contend with difficult internal Church dynamics and the demands of a polarized world and an increasingly unlearned yet hypercritical world population.

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