Who is Pope Leo XIV? What Can We Expect From Our Shepherd?
Explaining the Faith with Fr. Chris Alar
The Marian Fathers
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🗓️ 12 May 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Habemus Papam! What can we expect from Cardinal Robert Prevost who was elected as the new pope? While we trust that God is at work, we also need to know our new Bishop of Rome, our new Shepherd. Listen as Fr. Chris Alar explains who Leo XIV is, from his own words.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning from around the world. Thank you for joining us on Father Chris Ailar. |
| 0:06.0 | And as you know, the last several days have been a world win in our Catholic Church. |
| 0:12.0 | With everything going on, the conclave, well, first of all, may God rest in peace, Pope Francis with the conclave. |
| 0:19.0 | And now the election of Leo the 14th. There's a huge connection |
| 0:24.6 | and why he took his name with, you know, my favorite pope of all, Leo the 13th. We're going to |
| 0:30.6 | explain the meaning of Pope's names. We're going to be explaining who Leo the 14th is. |
| 0:38.0 | Now, if I say Leo the 13th by mistake, please just automatically fill in Leo the 14th, okay? |
| 0:43.8 | Because I've been saying that for so long. |
| 0:45.7 | We have a nice group of people here today, and we're not here to make judgment. |
| 0:50.9 | This is not what this talk is. |
| 0:52.1 | This talk is going to be solely about who Leo |
| 0:57.4 | the 14th is and using his own words, okay, his own statements, his own posts, where he stands |
| 1:06.7 | on a lot of the issues that you as Catholics want to know, abortion, gender, transgender ideology, |
| 1:16.5 | you know, these are the types of things that Catholics need to know, where does he stand? |
| 1:20.6 | Is this a continuation of Pope Francis? Is it not? Well, we can't for say or foretell, |
| 1:30.2 | but we can say what he has said. |
| 1:37.4 | Now, most important, though, that to me doesn't matter because the grace of the office is transformative. |
| 1:46.0 | You can take the past and sometimes throw it out the window when God puts somebody into a new grace of office and we'll explain. So let us begin with a prayer in the name of the Father and to the |
| 1:52.4 | Son, into the Holy Spirit. Amen. Heavenly Father, we ask you send the Holy Spirit down upon us |
| 1:59.0 | to open our minds and hearts to receive the grace |
| 2:02.7 | of being here today. We absolutely ask for special graces on our church, on the papacy, the office |
| 2:09.7 | of the Pope, our shepherd, our vicar of Christ, and may Leo the 14th continue the good work |
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