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The Liz Wheeler Show

Jimmy Akin LIVE: Is the New Pope Leo XIV Bad News? | Bonus Ep

The Liz Wheeler Show

Blaze Media

Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.94.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Catholic Answers Senior Apologist Jimmy Akin joins The Liz Wheeler Show for a special bonus episode to discuss the election of former Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV. What is known about the newly elected Holy Father? Watch to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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live we are live across all platforms we're here for a special bonus episode because

0:36.8

habemus papam We have a Pope.

0:40.6

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost of Chicago, Illinois, an American has been elected Pope.

0:47.2

He will take the name Pope Leo the 14th. And let me tell you, my phone has been blowing up all day.

0:53.7

Friends and family alike have been asking me,

0:56.1

is this good? Is this bad? What do you think of this Pope? He has sort of a smattering of different

1:02.2

views on different issues. And so I thought I would hop on here with my friend, Jimmy Aiken. You

1:08.4

guys loved him when he was on a couple weeks ago. He's a senior apologist over at Catholic Answers. I, full disclosure here, have not prepared a show in the

1:15.9

traditional sense. I have not organized my thoughts on all this. I'm thinking of today's show.

1:20.6

Jimmy, not only is chatting with you about this, but kind of just unpacking it in real time,

1:25.5

a sort of stream of consciousness, kind of like all the voice memos I've been sending its answers today to my friends,

1:32.1

that I'm sure you've been doing the same sort of thing here.

1:34.5

So first of all, thanks for being here with me.

1:36.5

Yeah, my pleasure to be back with you.

1:39.6

All right.

1:40.1

So, I mean, big question here.

1:41.6

Let's just start with open-ended Pope Leo, the 14th. Cardinal, Robert Prevose. What do you think?

1:49.7

Well, I suppose I would say that the College of Cardinals voted broadly in lines with what I anticipated they would do.

1:59.2

And I think that's positive. And I think that's, uh, that's positive. Um, I also think it's

2:04.4

interesting to have the first American pope in history. And, uh, and that's kind of excited. But, uh,

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