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Pope Leo XIV

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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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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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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The Church’s Civilizational Task Under Leo XIV

CONFRONTING A NEW ENEMY: LATE-STAGE GLOBALISM

Michael S. Rose

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

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