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A Lion in the Chair of Peter: Will Pope Leo XIV Heal, Resist, or Appease? by Gavin Ashenden – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald, May 12, 2025

By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald, May 12, 2025

The election of a new father in God reconfigures the Catholic Church. The Church is part institution and, with a father in God, part family; a symbiosis of two different modes of being.

A new pope brings the opportunity to assess his gifts as leader of the institution and also to learn to love him as our “father in God”.

To love our pope we have to get to know him. And so Catholics all over the world are getting better acquainted with Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Bob from Chicago.

Already the furore over conflicting information about his allegiances has begun.

If you come from Chicago you will know that what amounts to hysteria about disinformation has erupted. And for once it’s not about the the Latin Mass, important though it is.

It is about what kind of baseball fan Bob was – a Cubs fan or a White Sox fan. …

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