This is Patrick Coffford from Rome. I've been reading a lot about the new Pope Leo I 14th, specifically his endorsement, and now we know through private sources and at least one published account that he's been regularly celebrating the traditional Latin mass. Now, when he stepped out onto the balcony what seems like moments ago when we were all here, St. Peters was jam-packed. His Latin was maleifulous, very clean, very well spoken in Latin. In his or her blessing in his prayers in Latin, he made a slate head bow when he mentioned the name of Jesus. Someone who's that comfortable with Latin that means that they pray it regularly. Now when he was the congregation for bishop's prefix, he got special permission, a special indel from Francis himself to celebrate the TLM, the traditional Latin mass in a private chapel in the Vatican. Now you could quibble and say, you know, Trudis put the kibash on it everywhere else in the world and it seems like a double-minded thing, but I think it shows his priorities. Maybe then Cardinal Pvost wanted to be prudent about the traditional Latin mass and his love of the sacred mass of the ages. Maybe he was acting out of not wanting to make a ruckus, not wanting to signal to the powers of the bee. Now, I know he had a hand in the removal of Bishop Strickland and uh something to do with the elevation of uh uh Robert Maroy from San Diego to Washington. I don't have any facts um or documents to to prove what his role actually was. Maybe this is a call directly from Francis and he was just going along. He basically had to do it. However, in Baltimore, I've heard this anecdote from many many people that I trust. the director there of the seminary knew that it was sort of an an open secret that Cardinal Pivos loved to celebrate the traditional Latin mass in the congregation for bishop's chapel and also when he visited Baltimore he was seen celebrating. Now I have photos now of him in the full traditional sasseral um vestments vesting for the traditional ants. So there's some signs a foot that this guy is not the the neomodernist activist that he's been made out to be. Every pope you can have some complaints about. It doesn't matter. One of my favorites, of course, was uh Pope Benedict the 16th. Only heaven's perfect. I keep saying this. You had um Pope Benedict um writing in space salvi some things that that had to do with hell that maybe could be cleaned up or said differently. He said some wrote some things in the 60s and 70s when he was definitely more progressive that was never really addressed. 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I think it's the the mission of Catholics now to pray for for our our new pope, Pope Leo the 14th. And think about what his choice of name means. He's in continuity with two great Leos. Leo the 13th, the longest running pontiff in history. He was 94 years old when he finally uh went to be with our lord and he was the pope at the at the beginning of a lot of turmoil in the church. He was the first pope to condemn in a kind of a wholesome way with in uh magisterial documents the new heresy called modernism that his successor pope St. P the 10th called the synthesis of all heresies. It's important, I think, that the new pope chose that name, Pope Leo the 14th, sort of the symbolic successor of Leo the 13th. Also, Pope Leo the Great, one of the greatest pontiffs in history and and a saint. Um, the fact that he took the time to announce to the world that he's a son of of uh St. Augustine. He's a member of the Augustinian order. He's a Augustinian monk. St. Augustine's a doctor of the church. So, he's identifying himself with the best of the best. the fact that he wore the the traditional papal um the mosetto and the palium, he just looked like someone in continuity with things that are traditional, things that are anchored in the past. There's at least one published report about uh then Cardinal Pa's love of the traditional Latin mass. Uh I don't think we're going to see this activist-minded pope who's going to upend the church and continue the last 13 years of weaponizing antiquity. I don't see that happening. But, you know, this is a story that's unfolding and here we are in chaotic Rome. Um, I want to give you everything I I can from the people that I trust, my sources here in the Vatican, and also some of the things that I I read on the on the offbeat, not necessarily mainstream uh sources, but people who know people and people who um create circulars that not everybody gets to read. So, I'll be sharing those and I will be uh giving more and more commentary as we go. I'm looking forward to his first encyclical. Uh he'll be g giving I think this coming Wednesday or at least soon the his first um Wednesday audience address that's going to be I think the crystallization or at least the seed form of what we can expect from this pontificate. Remember John Paul II's first encyclical was called redemptorous homminists back in 1979 and that is the seed form of the other things that he wrote when he was pope. So I think it's a kind of a tabular rasa most people including me two weeks ago did not know much about Cardinal Robert Pivos and I think the fact that he has signaled so many things that angle him in a in a more traditional way gives me signs of hope. So with that, pray for this man that he might usher in, if not a revolution, then a restoration. How great it would be if someone who's tagged as sort of a liberal/progressive restores the traditional at mass and and brings us back to the norms of Samoran Pontific, the great monopo the 16th in 2009. That would be magnificent. So, especially Catholics among the faithful who love with traditional mass and and all the sacred things that have to do with the liturgy, I think we have grounds for hope that this man is going to be someone with the heart and the mind of the church like his spiritual father as he says, the great St. Augustine. If you want more information, if you want to have these kinds of crucial conversations, check out the True North Movement in the link, hit subscribe, hit the notification bell, and uh love to be on your your your watch list for inside info from a traditional faithful Catholic cultural point of view. I'm Patrick Coffin from Rome. Be a saint. What else is there?