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0:00 [Music] So, it's now been a few days since Pope Leo I 14th was elected and there's been a lot of online especially conversation but I'm sure in in private circles where people have been assessing and rehearsing and examining all the events and all of the rumors and all of the things that we could observe to to grasp of this moment in history that we have been able to uh to take part in. And predictably, because this has been the climate that the church has has had to endure for some time, there are there are different takes on on what's been going on. And there are some people committed to a view of the papacy that is is still skeptical and resentful and
0:48 maybe even hostile. And another end of the spectrum in which people are uh fully on board and and endorsing this this new pope without reservation. And so for what it's worth, I thought I would contribute my own thoughts for for you, my audience, to share some of what I've been seeing and to encourage, I think, a perspective that is that is healthy and sound and and good uh in this moment um to to help us all move forward as a family and and as a church for the good of the church and the good of the world. Because if you're among those who are skeptical or or hostile or even at best cautious towards this new pope, I want to encourage you to ease up on that a little bit. And and there's
1:33 there's a number of reasons why I think that that's necessary. For one, we we owe him uh we owe him obedience. We owe him uh a certain measure of uh of filial charity from sons to fathers. Um, but also just for your own psychological well-being. An analogy that came to mind for me is is like being a child of divorce. I come from a family in which my parents split up. And I can tell you from that experience, as I'm sure many of you can relate to from your own experiences, that when you're in a family dynamic and you're committed to loving two people who are committed to hostility or even hatred towards each other, that's a very stressful and often untenable position to to hold.
2:19 Um, imagine imagine two friends who decide they're not going to be friends anymore because one has really hurt the other. And you decide you're going to try and be friends with both of them at the same time. Well, the victim in that scenario who was a victim of the the hostility of the other friend is going to come to you and say, "How can you still be friends with that person given what they did to me?" your neutrality and your commitment to maintaining a relationship with both of them is going to be viewed by one or both as as a rejection of them because you're not taking their side. And that's often the position that that kids in in divorces are are placed in. And so if you're in a position where you are committed to uh resentment towards uh in this case the spiritual father of a family while
3:05 everyone else is committed to embracing that father your position within the family is going to be uh it's going to it's going to become stressed and strained by that experience. This is also a season of jubilation for the church, right? Everybody's is excited and celebratory and to miss out on that I think is is a real shame. And so I would want to encourage people and in the way I want to encourage you is by sharing some things that I've been observing and maybe some thought experiments that uh I think would be really helpful in overcoming some of the hesitancy that a lot of people have towards this new pope. So, the first thing I'll share is a bit of a thought experiment that a good friend of mine um uh suggested in conversation, not because I needed to hear it, but just
3:51 because I think it was his own rationale um and it and it made a lot of sense to me. So, imagine, and I'm I'm adding a bit to it just to kind of emphasize the point here. Imagine that you've been in a coma for the last month and you've just woken up and uh one of the bits of news that people give you is that there's a new pope and they don't tell you who he is or anything about him. they just start telling you about all the things that he's done since he was elevated to the papacy. Um, now based on just that information alone, you might be sitting there guessing like, "Oh, I wonder who it who it is out of the cast of cardinals that I'm familiar with who would do these kinds of things." And I think that if an honest assessment um would fit the conclusion that it could be someone like a Burke or a Sarra or an
4:39 Erdo or a Pizzal or any of the the famous conservative candidates from what we've seen uh of a Pope Leo the 14th the kinds of actions that he's done in in his this very brief period of time they would be compatible with any of that cast of characters or a Pope Benedict for that matter. So, what are some of the things that we've seen that I find extremely encouraging? Well, for one, um, he took the name Leo the 14th, and there was some speculation about, well, which Leo is is he drawing inspiration from there. And he has since clarified that it's Leo the 13th. And specifically about Leo the 13th, it was his encyclical Ram Navarum, which was sort of this milestone teaching um that that established how Catholicism and how
5:25 social teaching should be applied in this new modern age and modern context. And what's so great about RAM Navarum is um that it has something for people from all different ends of the spectrum. There's just so much truth in it and in one sense it can be very unifying in that sense. Um there are people on the left who who cite Ram Navaram as this just groundbreaking um insightful teaching and there are people on the right who likewise do so and and say that you know this this perfectly aligns with what I'm teaching or with what I believe. Um and there are great figures, literary figures like GK Chesterton who who so much of his writing and his his um his exposition of Catholic ideas was
6:10 inspired by Ryram Navarum. He even established or tried to establish a whole sort of political theory called distributivism or distributism uh based on that encyclical. And very few people um unless they're just expressing their own ignorance would accuse GK Chesterton of being a liberal or something like that. I said this in my last video, but something else that I found very encouraging is his willingness to conform himself to certain kinds of traditions like wearing the papal garb that he wore when he first greeted the crowds uh in St. Peter's Square. um some of the things we've seen lurggically where he's just he's just following the script of the rubrics and the uh and the missile of the mass. Um another thing that I we saw him do was uh or that I
6:56 saw him do was he met with um journalists in the Pope Paul V 6th hall. Um and then at the end in the standard Latin formula he blessed them the way that you would expect the pope to do. uh when Pope Francis first met um this this same group of people the the the the media and the journalists um his I'm going to paraphrase him on this but when he was um expected to bless the audience there he said something like now I understand that not everybody here is Catholic um so I'm going to refrain from giving you that standard blessing so as not to offend people instead I will ask for a blessing silently uh in our in my heart and then ask you to do the same. And he sort of vaguely alluded to God as
7:43 sort of this sort of general um theism that might might um appeal to everyone who was there. Now, I can understand how not wanting to offend people seems like a good and sensible thing, but at the same time, we can't suppress or hide or obscure our Catholicism for fear of offending other people. Because the fact is Jesus Christ is not offensive to people of goodwill. He's only offensive to people who have hardened hearts or who misunderstand him or who are simp who are simply evil. And we shouldn't cater to those realities. We shouldn't uh if we invite non-atholics over to our our homes like our our house is very explicitly and conspicuously Catholic.
8:29 um if we were to have people over to our house, we're not going to go around and take all the crucifixes off the walls and the the paintings of of popes of the past and and the icons and things like that because that's that's a kind of like denial of of Jesus. Um we should be proud of our Catholicity and we should we should um we should live it out boldly and courageously and to do otherwise I I think is just is just a strange sort of instinct and sensibility. And so, Pope Leo the 14th, I was very happy to see that, you know, he he looked at this crowd and he said, "Well, you're you're in my house. I'm the pope of the Holy Catholic Church. Um, and I'm also the patriarch of the Latin right of the church." And so, boom, Latin blessing according to the
9:14 formula that has been used for millennia. I'd spoken earlier about um the significance of of what he chose to wear and still wears um as as part of his his papal garb. And I know that some people will look at that and say, "Why are we getting so hung up on something so superficial as clothing?" Um think about it like this. Um as a sports analogy, I hope I hope that a lot of people can relate to this. Imagine, think of your favorite sports team, whatever sport that might happen to be. Uh, for me, I'd say it's probably hockey as a Canadian. Imagine your favorite sports team drafts a new player and that player shows up to the first team meeting and um instead of wearing the uniform, they say, "No, I'm I'm going to wear this my
10:01 own way or I'm not going to wear the uniform at all. I want something entirely different because I'm humble." Does that make sense? Or does that appear to you to be a gesture of pride? To me, in that scenario, that would be a gesture of pride. I'm not trying to say anything about Pope Francis in this scenario because maybe he had other good reasons for this. But just judging from the outside, um I think to embrace something that has come before you, unless that thing is clearly and evidently evil, um I think it's right to embrace it. Um and the fact that countless saints uh have have embraced the papal vestments and certain papal traditions and and customs of the Catholic Church, we can't say that they are wrong or evil. Um so
10:47 to to refuse to do so um I think is is a real portrayal of assertive individualism that I I would find concerning. and the fact that from everything I've seen of Leo the 14th so far he has embraced those traditions and submitted himself to them um which is a kind of self- forgetfulness which is what true and authentic humility looks like. Something else I found really encouraging is looking back at some of the old statements and interviews and things that he's given as well as things that have um have bled through into some of his um initial statements as pope and in his homalies and and and some of the the brief things that he has said to various people. Uh, one of those that really stood out for me in dramatic fashion was some of the comments he's made about liturgy. Uh, and this is something that I talk about quite a bit.
11:34 Um, both liturgy and culture as as as sort of an overarching topic. Uh, because this has been so significant for me. A real milestone for me was reading um Pope Benedict's uh on the spir the spirit of the liturgy. It was it was groundbreaking for me because there were a lot of intuitions I had as a Catholic about liturgy that I didn't know if I should trust or not because I didn't have the right formation. And that book just helped shape um all of those intuitions to confirm the good ones and to discard the bad ones and to really give me a sound understanding of what liturgy should look like. Um, and what I've seen from Pope Leo the 14th is um, comments that very much align with with good Pope Benedict's teachings on the
12:20 liturgy. So, one of the things that he said was that as we try to renew the church and as we try to evangelize and engage the culture, we should avoid succumbing to the temptation to uh to produce spectacle to attract people. Uh, because that's what that's what the secular world does, right? It's all whether it's we're talking like a Super Bowl or a concert or a movie or all of these various forms of uh of dialogue between media or personalities and an audience. It's always based on the spectacle, based on uh whatever it is that can that can drum up and provoke people's uh emotive reactions to such a
13:05 such a pitch that they hard like the rational dimension of the people involved in this kind of um descends away um so that nothing all that's left is just the appetite and the passions being stirred up by the spectacle. Pope Benedict says something very very similarly in in the spirit of the liturgy where he talks about like rock concerts and things like that and um I don't think either are necessarily condemning forms of entertainment or spectacle but they are saying that they have really no place in the liturgy or even in the devotions or the practices of the church as we gather together. Instead, um, we have our own form of what it means to gather in prayer and in worship. And, um, it has nothing to do
13:51 with the spectacle that we see in the secular culture. And then something I never thought I would see, uh, is is personalities, whether they be media personalities or bloggers or writers or journalists or otherwise in in the Catholic media, um, are enthusiastically embracing Pope Leo the 14th. So, a guy like Taylor Marshall who is obviously controversial among among various people um who has a lot of negative things who has had a lot of negative things to say about Pope Francis um is is posting a lot of positive stuff about the Pope which isn't something I thought I would see anytime soon um just based on his legacy of publishing. And I'm not trying to say anything about about uh Taylor Marshall for good or or for ill. I've
14:36 never met him. I don't really know him personally. Um, I've had some positive exchanges with him on Twitter, but that's about it. Um, and and so to see him um embracing this new pope and other personalities who have who have assumed similar positions to someone like Taylor Marshall in the past just shows a lot of promise for how unifying uh this new pope actually is. So, those are just some of the things that we've seen in these early days that I find extremely encouraging. And the last thing I guess I would say um is just to remind you that your affection and your charity and especially your obedience towards the pontiff does not depend on him proving himself to you. And I know we've gone through this kind of season where things have been divisive and confusing. And so
15:22 um I understand why people are uh not at ease with things. But I think as much as possible we should find encouragement in the things that have we have seen that are good and we should as much as possible um embrace the holy father um but just by virtue of the fact that he is the holy father and until we have um reason to do otherwise and he'd have to give you very very good reason to do otherwise. Um so and also again just for your own spiritual uh welfare and your own psychological welfare. This is this is an amazing moment to be a Catholic and to celebrate the joy of of of a new holy father and hopefully a new season of the church. So I would just encourage everybody um where whatever current of
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