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By John Daniel Davidson, The Federalist - For Catholics, the new pope’s disposition toward the Latin Mass will tell us far more about his pontificate than his views on immigration... It didn’t take long after Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, emerged onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday as the new leader of the Catholic Church for social media commentators on the right to begin decrying him as “Francis 2.0.”

By Edward Pentin, Blog - Pope Francis, who famously advocated “making a mess,” applied that maxim to his pontificate, making it highly disruptive, divisive and tumultuous... The mess generated much understandable unease, consternation and, at times, disgust, especially as such a deliberate approach to governance has never been consistent with the Catholic faith, the common good, Divine Revelation, and the natural law... However, the flipside was that, like stirring a pot, it brought plenty of what had lain hidden in the darkness to the surface... (which now) has the potential to equip the next pope with the information needed to set about rectifying, if he so wishes, the problems Francis’ pontificate exposed.

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine - I begin with the following proposition. It is one which, among committed Christians certainly, may be taken as a given, as axiomatic. Not a statement of fact, mind you, as in the sum of two plus two will always be four. It is instead a statement of value, the certainty of which is hardly a function of arithmetic. It depends rather on revelation, as in Divine Revelation, the truth of which derives not from man but from God. And what is this proposition? ....

Bby Shaun McAfee, Catholic Exchange - When the newly elected pope stepped out onto the loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica and took the name Leo XIV, it wasn’t just a nod to tradition. It was a deliberate echo of a name carried by thirteen popes before him, beginning with Leo the Great, the 5th-century Doctor of the Church renowned for defending orthodoxy and engaging the turbulent politics of a collapsing Roman Empire. But it is perhaps Leo XIII—the late 19th-century “Pope of the Rosary,” philosopher, social reformer, and prolific writer—whose influence may be most relevant today.