The battle for John Henry Newman
https://unherd.com/2025/08/the-battle-for-john-henry-newman/
The battle for John Henry Newman
https://unherd.com/2025/08/the-battle-for-john-henry-newman/
"The omens are encouraging. During his Mass for the cardinals, Leo XIV produced the outline of an unambiguously Catholic manifesto in language of startling clarity."
"For one thing, the new Pope clearly loves Latin. On Sunday he led a crowd of 100,000 in St Peter’s Square in the Regina Caeli, a 12th-century antiphon to the Blessed Virgin."
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/leo-xivs-papacy-is-off-to-a-surprisingly-promising-start
Rome In the days before the conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV, traditionalist Catholics were so worried about interference from evil spirits that, according to reliable sources, they arranged for a priest to conduct what’s known as a ‘minor exorcism’ outside the walls of the Vatican. Such ceremonies, which typically involve the sprinkling of holy