Our Thoughts on Pope Leo XIV

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4.9 • 863 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Mike Gormley and Dave VanVickle share their thoughts on Pope Leo, unpack the meaning of “synodality” which the pope has mentioned various times, and address key differences and similarities between this papacy as opposed to previous ones. They also remind us that while the pope is important, we must not become hyper focused on every single detail of the papacy.

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“I’m super cautiously optimistic about everything with Pope Leo. Everything he’s written so far, I’ve been so excited about, the decisions that he’s made so far, I’ve been very happy with. I’m excited to see what’s going to happen here.”

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0:00.0	I'm like super cautiously optimistic about everything with Poplio.
0:05.5	Everything he's written so far, I've been so excited about the decisions that he's made so far I've been very happy with.
0:11.8	I'm excited to see what's going to happen here. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen to every knee shall bow, your weekly Catholic podcast in evangelization and discipleship.
0:33.7	My name is Mike Gomer Gormley, and I am joined today, as always, by Dave, the relickeeper Van Vickle.
0:39.5	How are you doing, Dave?
0:40.8	I'm good.
0:42.0	How many relics are in your home?
0:43.3	How many?
0:44.1	About 71 first class and about 54 reliquaries.
0:48.7	If you were a relic, you would be second class.
0:52.8	Yeah, for sure.
0:53.7	There's no question in my mind.
0:56.6	I think that's a great new Catholic insult we need to tap into.
1:00.0	Just so you know about my relics, I'm very generous with them.
1:02.7	So I feel like you're making that comment.
1:04.7	Like, how many do you have?
1:05.6	Like, I'm Scrooge McDuck or something, but I actually give them away all the time. I imagine there is a safe and a diving
1:12.5	board at the top of that safe and you walk out and you jump into it and you say, this is the
1:16.4	community of saints. All the relics like Scrooge and McDuck. Exactly. Hey, I think we should do a
1:23.2	conference, an online conference. I think we should. Tell me more about it, Dave. I think we should do an online conference for church workers.. I think we should. Tell me more about it, Dave.
1:32.1	I think we should do an online conference for church workers, and I think we should look for sponsors to help us put this conference on. I think right now more than ever with diocese either
1:39.3	consolidating or growing, you know, and I mean, there's no place staying the same right now.
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