Pope Leo also denounced euthanasia as a ‘deceptive form of compassion’ and stressed that the right to life is ‘the indispensable foundation of every other human right.’
Pope Leo on Wednesday praised the ‘liturgical reform’ launched by Vatican II that laid the groundwork for the revolutionary Novus Ordo Missae, the new Mass.
Leo’s description of the Second Vatican Council as the ‘guiding star’ of the Church’s path suggests he sees this council as surpassing in importance every other council of the Church.
Sources told LifeSiteNews that key roles in the opening phases of the consistory were assigned to figures closely aligned with the approach of Pope Francis.
Pope Leo XIV emphasized ‘the good of the beloved Venezuelan people’ in a statement on Sunday about the US raid on Venezuela’s socialist dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
More than 100 Catholics in Peru wrote to Pope Leo denouncing a ‘truly scandalous’ Vatican document that attacks Our Lady’s titles of ‘Co-Redemptrix’ and ‘Mediatrix of All Graces.’
Fr. Manuel de Jesús Rodríguez, who was born and ordained in the Dominican Republic, has advocated for many illegal immigrants in his church in Queens, New York.