Should Catholics Start Worrying About Pope Leo?

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Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Christianity

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🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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In this episode of The Catholic Talk Show, Ryan and Ryan discuss recent actions by Pope Leo that have some Catholics worried about the direction of his pontificate. Episode 336: In this episode, we will discuss: • What Should Catholics Actually Be Worried About? • Why Was The Pope Blessing Ice? • The Pope's Comments On A Pro-Abortion Senator • How The Internet Is Distorting Reality For Catholics • and much more 00:00:00 Introduction and Overview 00:05:00 Pope Leo's Blessing Of Ice 00:15:00 Cardinal Cupich and Senator Durbin Controversy 00:25:00 The Church's Relationship with Politics 00:30:00 The Impact of Social Media on Society and Faith 00:35:00 Conclusion and Reflections Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome back to another episode of the Catholic Talk Show.
0:04.2	Today we're going to be talking about Pope Leo.
0:06.2	Are we worried about this guy or what?
0:08.6	That's right.
0:09.1	A lot of people online are starting to get kind of worried, particularly traditionalists,
0:12.9	about some of the things Pope Leo has done from blessing a block of ice to his comments about a pro-life senator and more.
0:18.3	Let's break that down and see, should we be worried about where Pope Leo's pontificate is going?
0:48.1	I'm going. All right, so we got a block of vice, a senator.
0:58.1	I mean, we did an episode where we were praising Pope Leo for not, you know, being in the public eye.
1:07.1	But there's certain things that have been kind of pushed up to actually permit some reporting on.
1:09.3	And here we go.
1:10.5	That's right. So, you know, there's been a couple things the news and
1:13.6	you know the traditional people who react to things like this they are in full reaction mode
1:19.1	and we're going to break those things down um you know and see whether you know what we should really
1:23.6	think about them and how we can react to anything that the pope does whether it's leo or Francis or Benedict or John Paul or any of them. But before we do that, make sure you click the like and subscribe button. It's the easiest way for you to participate in the Catholic mission. And here's one thing you don't have to worry about is going to Catholic Talk Show.com forward slash Patreon. Easiest way to be able to support us and help us continue to do what it is we do so
1:45.3	right the big one well there's two big ones and one other one that i think is kind of looming in the
1:52.3	mind of people who might be concerned about pope leo's pontificate and the direction is taking and i'm
1:57.6	going to say this with the caveat that the people who have these concerns are people
2:01.3	who are worried that it's going to be much like Pope Francis, that the same things that they took
2:08.1	issue with during his pontificate we're going to see with Pope Leo. And I don't even, I'm not even
2:13.6	here to say that those are things that are legitimately concerns, right? That's not my position.
2:18.0	I'm just talking about what is in the news.
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