This man sounds so familar. He is kind of a "stock" Novus Ordo priest. Francis was not, he gave us some surprises, but this Prevost Leo fellow seems somehow so predictable.

When I look at him and hear him speak I feel like I am back in a Novus Ordo parish. There is absolutely nothing new or different about him. 

We'll have to wait and see if he gives us some surprises. I imagine that we will have a somewhat calmer time, with things slowly but firmly going ahead (in the wrong direction of course), without any Francis style shocks or surprise movements. Time will tell.

What kind of satanic "pectoral cross" is that? Where is the corpus? Why is it not even a cross, more of a plus sign?

He placates the prots, heretics and anti Catholics who preach Christ is " no longer on the cross" bs, when they miss the entire point of thd Crucifix that Christ suffering and dying by crucifixation was the whole basis of Christianity, he died for our eternal salvation. No Christ on the cross, omits the message. They eliminate the Body of Christ on purpose, just like they do not believe in the Real Presence.

Everything is subliminal.

Can Michael Matt get any more PATHETIC?

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A good sign. . .
Pope Leo XIV will reside in the Apostolic Palace, rather than the less austere Casa Santa Marta. In other words, the light in the Pope's window overlooking the Piazza will come on again.
Welcome back, Holiness.

So he can be a flaming Modernist, but if he lives at the Apostolic Palace, this means something.

Yeah, I can agree with that. It's juvenile language, first of all (why use a comic-book analogy to begin with?)

The concept of the "superman" (Übermensch) actually comes from Nietzsche, whom Prevost studied in university.

I attended a novus ordo parochial school during that era and it was even gαyer then than by today's standards...if that can be believed. We had the felt banners, the butch women giving the readings, priests in rainbow vestments that Elton John might wear, the guitar masses, the horrendous hymns, modernist architecture with those ubiquitous Matisse inspired stained glass windows, the jokes from the pulpit about making the sermon brief so as to get home before the NFL game starts. The pastor was an old Irish priest who was in WWII and had seen heavy action but despite being ordained in the 50's he went along with it all. I had no clue the mass had ever been any different but I knew something was unsatisfying about it, something very effeminate and tepid.

^^THIS

(though our diocese was fairly conservative liturgically and rainbow vestments weren't yet a thing)

I watched one of his videos somewhat recently where he said, 'sedevacantism just isn't strategic...  do you know how many people we'd alienate with sedevacantism?'  Matt is on the verge of confusing a lot of people, and already has confused many if they read that rag on a regular basis.

So with that comment he basically admitted the grift.

He's out there deriding Trads for having criticized Ratzinger at his election ... with the implication of "but look at how that turned out".

Matt is just a faithless Modernist taking advantage of the millions of disgruntled Catholics out there, where he talks Traddie enough to get their attention but refuses to follow the truth where it leads at risk of alienating too many of his revenue base.

Something that everyone is missing --

Prevost graduated high school in the early 1970s. His ENTIRE ersatz priestly formation took place in the 1970s.

This man claiming the Chair of Peter is THE FIRST CONCILIAR POPE TO HAVE BEEN FORMED ENTIRELY IN THE POST-CONCILIAR SYSTEM!

HE IS A FRUIT, NOT A CAUSE, OF VATICAN II.

He is from a different generation than those to which Bergoglio, Ratzinger, Wojtyła, and Montini belonged. Prevost is a Baby Boomer -- an American Baby Boomer!

I wonder what, if any ties Prevost has to McCarrick. Was Prevost formed in a lavender seminary? We know that Cupich and McCarrick are connected. 

- St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, MI

From a FB page called "Remembering Holland Michigan:"

https://www.facebook.com/RememberingHollandMichigan/posts/pope-leo-xiv-formerly-robert-francis-prevost-attended-st-augustine-seminary-high/1090274179794142/

Pope Leo XIV, formerly Robert Francis Prevost, attended St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, Michigan, during his high school years. This seminary, now known as the Felt Estate, was a boarding school operated by priests of the Order of St. Augustine.

"According to a release from Laketown Township, Prevost graduated from the school in 1973."

See: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/nation-world/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-graduated-from-former-seminary-at-felt-estate/83526950007/

From the same article: "Prevost was born in Chicago in 1955. He graduated from the seminary in 1973, according to a release from Laketown Township. The school closed in 1977. He became an Augustinian novitiate in 1977 and made his "solemn profession" in 1981, the Chicago Province said in a release.

"Following ordination in 1982, he went on to earn advanced degrees in canon law in Rome and spent the decades serving as a missionary in Peru, as an educator and formator, as prior provincial, and later as prior general of the Augustinian Order for two terms."

If you follow the ordination link, it takes you to this page: https://www.midwestaugustinians.org/pope-leo-xiv

This article tells you nothing about where he went to seminary. 

If he graduated high school in 1973, and was ordained in 1982, where was he during the intervening nine years? They are happy to provide us with biographical information post-1982, but there's a big fat hole during the 9-year blackout. 

Here's the wiki page: "Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and raised in a town nearby, Prevost became a friar of the Order of Saint Augustine in 1977 and was ordained a priest in 1982. His service has included extensive missionary work in Peru from 1985 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1998, where he variously served as a parish pastor, diocesan official, seminary teacher, and administrator."

He became a novice in 1977. Exactly where did he enter? What diocese? city? Who was the prior then? Who the bishop? Where was he from 1973 to 1977? How and where was he trained for the priesthood? What corrupt prelates associated themselves to him? Just how lavender was that missing nine years? How lavender was his Augustinian order? Many questions that need answering. 

Calling Randy Engel!

I wonder what, if any ties Prevost has to McCarrick. Was Prevost formed in a lavender seminary? We know that Cupich and McCarrick are connected.

- St. Augustine Seminary High School in Holland, MI

From a FB page called "Remembering Holland Michigan:"

https://www.facebook.com/RememberingHollandMichigan/posts/pope-leo-xiv-formerly-robert-francis-prevost-attended-st-augustine-seminary-high/1090274179794142/



"According to a release from Laketown Township, Prevost graduated from the school in 1973."

See: https://www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/news/nation-world/2025/05/08/pope-leo-xiv-graduated-from-former-seminary-at-felt-estate/83526950007/

From the same article: "Prevost was born in Chicago in 1955. He graduated from the seminary in 1973, according to a release from Laketown Township. The school closed in 1977. He became an Augustinian novitiate in 1977 and made his "solemn profession" in 1981, the Chicago Province said in a release.

"Following ordination in 1982, he went on to earn advanced degrees in canon law in Rome and spent the decades serving as a missionary in Peru, as an educator and formator, as prior provincial, and later as prior general of the Augustinian Order for two terms."

If you follow the ordination link, it takes you to this page: https://www.midwestaugustinians.org/pope-leo-xiv

This article tells you nothing about where he went to seminary.

If he graduated high school in 1973, and was ordained in 1982, where was he during the intervening nine years? They are happy to provide us with biographical information post-1982, but there's a big fat hole during the 9-year blackout.

Here's the wiki page: "Born in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and raised in a town nearby, Prevost became a friar of the Order of Saint Augustine in 1977 and was ordained a priest in 1982. His service has included extensive missionary work in Peru from 1985 to 1986 and from 1988 to 1998, where he variously served as a parish pastor, diocesan official, seminary teacher, and administrator."

He became a novice in 1977. Exactly where did he enter? What diocese? city? Who was the prior then? Who the bishop? Where was he from 1973 to 1977? How and where was he trained for the priesthood? What corrupt prelates associated themselves to him? Just how lavender was that missing nine years? How lavender was his Augustinian order? Many questions that need answering.

Calling Randy Engel!

Very good questions- sometimes it is what is missing that is most revealing.