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The Michael Knowles Show

BREAKING: The Pope Has Been Chosen

The Michael Knowles Show

The Michael Knowles Show

News Commentary, News

4.828.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Michael Knowles reacts to the historic announcement of the next head of the Catholic Church, breaking down who the new pope is, what his background reveals, and what this means for the future of the Catholic Church and global Christianity.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Abamos Papam! We have a new Pope. This conclave was rather short, wrapped up quickly just today, and we have a new Pope who was previously known as Cardinal Francis Prevost and now has taken the regnal name, Leo the 14th. You know I sometimes say, I hate to say I told you so. I actually called the papal name.

0:24.3

And this was a name not merely that I was predicting, but that I was hoping for. I've said this for a

0:28.7

long time, but then right before we were sort of waiting for the conclave to fully wrap up and for

0:34.3

the new pope to walk out, I said, I asked on Twitter, I said,

0:38.3

what regnal name are you hoping for? I'm hoping for Leo the 14th. And then it came out,

0:44.2

announced the pope and the name in Latin, and it was Leo the 14th. This is a good sign.

0:51.0

The reason Leo the 14th is a good sign is because Leo the 13th is one of the great

0:55.9

popes. I have actually a beautiful rosary that was given by a friend to me from Leo the 13th's

1:01.5

pontificate. He was wonderful. He's the first pope that ever appeared on film, by the way,

1:06.7

because he was very, very old right when moving pictures were coming out. And so you can actually

1:10.4

see a little film of Pope Leo, blessing people.

1:13.3

He is beloved by conservatives.

1:15.5

John Paul II loved Leo the 13th.

1:18.4

Leo the 13th was very strong against socialism.

1:21.2

Leo the 13th was strong in tradition, orthodoxy,

1:25.9

to mystic philosophy and theology. He also was a wonderful man to

1:35.3

articulate Catholic social teaching. So when John Paul II was writing Chintesi Muzanos,

1:41.9

he was writing about an encyclical by Leo the 13th,

1:44.4

which is called Rayrum Novorum, and about these kind of new ideas and these new systems and politics.

1:50.6

And in Chintesi Mousanus, John Paul II was saying, communism's terrible, you know,

1:55.1

free markets are an efficient way to allocate resources.

1:57.7

You know, this is the Conservatives Pope, right? We really love this. Okay, so that's

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