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Leo XIV: Our Anti-Americanist Pope, by Kenneth Craycraft – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Leo XIV: Our Anti-Americanist Pope, by Kenneth Craycraft

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On Monday, Pope Leo XIV held an audience in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall with the men and women (of the media). Vatican News.

By Kenneth Craycraft, Catholic World Report, Oct. 15, 2025

Kenneth Craycraft is author of Citizens Yet Strangers: Living Authentically Catholic in a Divided America.

In Dilexi te, Leo XIV takes up John Paul II’s admonition, cautioning us to be wary of a theory of markets that shuns regulation and redistribution, in favor of one that recognizes the need for oversight and correction.

One of the more noteworthy episodes during the late nineteenth-century tenure of Pope Leo XIII was the pope’s response to the so-called “Americanist” controversy in the United States.

Leo XIII wrote two encyclicals addressing issues that implicated the Catholic Church in America. The first, Libertas Praestantissimum (1888), was written to refute a theory of freedom that was contrary to the Christian understanding of liberty. While this encyclical was not written expressly about Americanism, the political theory of freedom criticized in Libertas was minted in the U.S. …

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