We’ve Got a New Pope! What’s Next?
The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast
Ascension
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🗓️ 13 May 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Habemus Papam! We have a Pope — Pope Leo XIV!
On this joyous occasion, Fr. Mike encourages us to welcome Pope Leo XIV with open hearts. He reminds us that before forming opinions or drawing comparisons to past popes, we should first offer him the respect, trust, and prayers he deserves as our Holy Father.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is essentially resents. So we have a pope, which is awesome, |
| 0:04.4 | Pope Leo the 14th. That is incredible. It's not unexpected in the sense that we get a pope. |
| 0:09.3 | I mean, when the Cardinals went into the conglades, I figured they'd come out with the Pope. |
| 0:12.5 | So that's awesome. What's kind of unexpected is, well, obviously what everyone's talking about, |
| 0:16.7 | which is the fact that he is born in America, raised in America. I think of Peruvian national, |
| 0:22.7 | he became a citizen of Peru a bunch of years ago. But praise God. This is awesome. Thank the |
| 0:27.7 | Lord for the fact that he's given us a new pope. Now, sometimes people say, well, what does that mean? |
| 0:32.3 | What does it mean to have a new Holy Father? And I would say it means a lot of things. One of the things I believe it means is that we have a |
| 0:38.3 | new universal pastor. That is what the Holy Father is. I mean, he's many, many things, obviously, right? |
| 0:43.1 | He's the Al-Habai'i, right? He's the prime minister. He's the steward of the kingdom that Jesus Christ |
| 0:47.5 | founded. But also, he's the universal pastor. He's the universal shepherd of the church. You know, that idea, that, that truth, |
| 0:56.1 | that reality comes all the way back from Isaiah 22, where you have that role, the role of the |
| 1:01.5 | al-Habai, right, the role of prime minister, the steward of the kingdom of Israel. And he's called, |
| 1:07.6 | he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. |
| 1:12.5 | This is one of the reasons why we call the Pope, the Holy Father. |
| 1:14.9 | Actually, sort of the reason he called the Pope the Pope, because Pope is just an anglicized version of word of Papa, which is obviously father. |
| 1:24.3 | And so here is the Holy Father, right? Here is our Pope, who is the universal shepherd. Again, |
| 1:29.2 | that role of, you'll be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the House of Judah. |
| 1:34.4 | So we see him as that, in that role, we see him as the universal shepherd, the universal pastor. |
| 1:39.9 | So how do we receive him? That's the big question. And I would say this. If the role of the |
| 1:43.8 | Holy Father is to be a universal pastor, how do you receive them? That's the big question. And I would say this. If the role of the Holy Father is to be universal pastor, how do you receive your new pastor? |
| 1:48.2 | Like, you know, in most Catholic dioceses around the country, at least, if not around the world, |
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