AOS papam we have a new pope. This conclave was rather short uh wrapped up quickly just today and we have a new pope who was previously known as Cardinal Francis Prevost and now has taken the regal name Leo I 14th. You know I sometimes say I hate to say I told you so. I actually called the papal name and and I this was a name not merely that I was predicting but that I was hoping for. I've said this for a long time, but then right before as we were sort of waiting for for the conclave to fully wrap up and for the pop the new pope to walk out, I said I asked on Twitter, I said, "What regal name are you hoping for? I'm hoping for Leo the 14th." And then they came out, announced the the Pope and the name in Latin, and it was Leo the 14th. This is a good sign. The reason Leo the 14th is a good sign is because Leo the 13th is one of the great popes. I have a actually a beautiful rosary that was given by a friend to me from Leo the 13th's pontificate. Uh he he was a wonderful he's the first pope that ever appeared on film by the way because he was very very old right when moving pictures were coming out and so you can actually see a little film of of Pope Leo blessing people. Uh he is beloved by conservatives. John Paul II loved uh Leo I 13th. Leo the 13th was very strong against socialism. Leo the 13th was strong in tradition, orthodoxy, uh toistic philosophy and theology. Um he uh also was a wonderful uh man to articulate Catholic social teaching. So when John Paul II was writing Chentzi Musanos, he was writing about an encyclical by Leo the 13th which is called Rayum Novarum um and and about these kind of new ideas and these new systems and politics and in Chantzi Musanu John Paul II was saying communism is terrible you know free markets are in efficient way to allocate resources you know this is this is the conservatives pope right we we really love this okay so that's all a good sign but I mentioned Catholic social teaching cause there are a lot of other signs about the new pope that raise some eyebrows. Uh he's from Chicago and a priest friend of mine said that nothing good ever comes out of Chicago. He's joking a little bit. Uh but he's he's from Chicago. Some liberal prelets and priests and lay people seem to be really excited about this. Uh he mentioned Pope Francis a lot in his first speech to everyone to you know to the whole crowd in St. Peters uh talked a lot about Francis talked a lot about the senodal way. Syodal way being being a way of inclusivity and listening and dialogue and many conservatives and traditional people in the church are a little worried about this that this could water down doctrine that this is ambiguous this opens the gate to innovation the sinodal way is the way that Pope Francis was was advocating. So that's all a little bit troubling. Some people are pointing out that uh the the new pope pope Leo I 14th when he was Cardinal Prevost uh wrote a piece going after JD Vance uh JD Vance specifically for articulating the ordo amores the hierarchy of love the ordo caritatis in the language of St. Thomas Aquinas. So maybe that's not a great sign. Some people are wondering what I guess I should mention we're 3 minutes in. I haven't mentioned this is the first American pope ever from the United States. That is uh second Latin American pope. Now that we've had two in a row, uh he's American, but he's also a dual citizen of Peru. Some are wondering, was this pope picked in part to to provide a a counter political balance to Trump and to the turn against mass migration in the West? And so again, I we don't know what the cardinals were thinking exactly in there. I'll leave on a little sign of hope, though. The name is a very hopeful sign. the the fact that he walked out in the formal vestments is a hopeful sign. Uh the formal vestments uh are something that Pope Francis didn't really like. But uh the formal vestments are important. They're actually, I think, a sign of humility because you're recognizing it's not about the personality of the individual, but he is now he's taking on a new name. He is the bishop of Rome. He is the vicer of Christ. He's he's uh subduing his personality and maybe some of his personal preferences to the magisterium to orthodoxy to the church. That's that's what one hopes for for that kind of a signal. I think we saw that a lot with Pope Benedict. Uh also he gave the blessing in Latin which is a good sign for continuity. Uh however there there is some cause for eyebrows being raised. There there is some cause for concern about things that he has said on LGBT issues on there's some cause to wonder what he thinks about the traditional liturgy really with this pick who no one was guessing. He hasn't said very much. We don't really know and people who tell you they know for sure exactly what he thinks and what he'll do are are full of it. Uh this is someone that no one saw coming that we don't know a lot about. There are some good signs, there are some bad signs, and he is a young man, 69 years old, the Holy Father. He will most likely be Pope for a very, very long time, decades, and we will have to see how that pontificate unfolds. I I have a lot more to say about some of the signs we're getting out of the new pope, on LGBT issues, on the environment, on uh tradition, on the the very structure of the church. I have a lot more to say about this, but I've gone overtime for my instant reaction. So, if you want to hear more about what this new papacy means, this new pontificate means, you got to watch the show tomorrow. See you there on the Michael Show.