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Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media (May 12, 2025). Source: Wikimedia Commons

By Austin Ruse, Crisis Magazine, Aug. 22, 2025

Austin Ruse is a contributing editor to Crisis Magazine. He is president of the Center for Family and Human Rights in New York and Washington DC. He is the author of several books including, Under Siege: No Finer Time to be a Faithful Catholic (Crisis Publications). He can be reached at austinruse@c-fam.org.

 

The intense focus on the daily minutia of the Holy Father can veer into unhealthy voyeurism.

RuseNot long ago, Rich Raho, a high school teacher with a not insignificant audience on 𝕏, posted a picture of Pope Leo along with this: “Every pontificate has a defining moment, and Leo’s ‘moonlight speech’ tonight was one of them. Unscripted and energized by thousands of young people in the Square, Leo let his guard down, and the crowd roared and embraced him…”

Do popes have defining moments? Has Leo had his guard up? And now he’s let it down? Raho says so. Raho called it a “breakout moment.” Breakout from what exactly? He does not say. The pope takes a swing around St. Peter’s Square, and Raho tells us, “And now we have the theme song from ‘The Prince of Egypt’ being sung.” …

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