Pope Leo XIV
(Photo from Edgar Beltrán of The Pillar via Wikipedia)
Pope Leo XIV is showing that he is an Augustinian who promotes a non-biblical form of Mary as well as ecumenism:
Pope Leo’s core identity is Augustinian …
Pope Leo XIV leads prayers at the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel in Genazzano, Italy, southeast of Rome, … The shrine, with a famous image of Mary, is run by the pope’s Augustinian confreres.
June 10, 2025
After stepping out to the main balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica as Pope Leo XIV, he mentioned no nationality and instead identified himself as “a son of St. Augustine, an Augustinian.” …
Augustinian Sister Marlene Quispe, who has known the pope from his early days in Peru, said the order’s charism is focused on unity, https://catholicreview.org/pope-leos-core-identity-is-augustinian-say-religious/
On the morning of Monday, June 9, Pope Leo XIV presided at Mass on the occasion of the Solemnity of St. Mary, Mother of the Church … 06/09/25 https://zenit.org/2025/06/09/mary-mother-of-the-church-marian-solemnity-explained-by-pope-leo-xiv-to-vatican-workers/
As far as Augustinians and Mary, notice the following at Wikipedia:
The particular devotional practices connected with the Augustinian Order, and which it has striven to propagate, include the veneration of the Blessed Virgin under the title of “Mother of Good Counsel” (Mater Boni Consilii), whose miraculous picture is to be seen in the Augustinian church at Genazzano in the Roman province. This devotion has spread to other churches and countries, and confraternities have been formed to encourage it.[37] Several periodicals dedicated to the honour of Our Lady of Good Counsel are published in Italy, Spain and Germany by the Augustinians. The Augustinians, with the approbation of Pope Leo XIII, also encourage the devotion of the Scapular of Our Lady of Good Counsel. (Wikipedia, accessed 06/10/25)
As far as the scapular goes, Leo XIV’s namesake, also promoted that:
Pope Leo XIII … is well known for his intellectualism and his attempts to define the position of the Catholic Church with regard to modern thinking. … He influenced the Mariology of the Catholic Church and promoted both the rosary and the scapular. … Leo XIII issued a record of eleven papal encyclicals on the rosary, earning him the title of the “Rosary Pope”. In addition, he approved two new Marian scapulars. (Pope Leo XIII. Wikipedia, accessed 05/08/25)
Notice more about that came from:
Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centered on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, also known as the Brown Scapular, a sacramental associated with promises of Mary’s special aid for the salvation of the devoted wearer. (Wikipedia, accessed 09/13/17)
In 1917 in Fatima, Portugal, three children, Lúcia, Francisco, and Jacinta, claimed to see a ‘Lady’ once per month for six month. One of them, Lúcia, claimed, “The Rosary and Scapular are inseparable.”
A brown scapular originally was a wool object that sometimes comes in the form of metals instead. It seems to be worn like a medallion.
“Sister Lúcia has said all Catholics should wear the Brown Scapular as part of the Fatima message.”
Supposedly, when the apparition of the ‘Lady’ appeared on October 13, 1917, Lúcia, Francisco, and Jacinta saw her hold a brown scapular in her hand.
“At the end of the 40s…Lúcia… recalled that the Blessed Virgin…wished that devotion of the holy Scapular be propagated.”
Of course, if Jesus’ mother Mary actually wanted this, it seems odd that it took Lúcia decades to tell this to anybody.
“The Brown Scapular is part of a religious habit belonging in its own right to the Carmelite order. Devotion for the Scapular of Our Lady of Carmel was born in the 13th century when after being purchased from Palestine by the Saracens, the Carmelite brothers encountered great difficulties in getting established in Europe and elsewhere…
Simon Stock, elected Prior General of the order in 1247, had, a few years later an apparition…presenting the Scapular to him as a sign of salvation for his brothers.”
Simon Stock’s original name was Simon Anglus (the surname Stock was added after his death), and his feast day is May 16th.
An apparition the Roman Catholic “saint” Simon Stock thought was Mary told him the following about the brown scapular, “Whosoever dies clothed in this shall never suffer eternal fire.”
It is important to realize that this is absolutely contrary to scripture as there is nothing in the Bible that hints that being clothed in some physical way pays the penalty for sin or in any way provides salvation.
Should one who eliminates any part of Roman Catholic dogma be considered as a Roman Catholic saint? Specifically, Simon Stock’s apparition (which could not have been Mary) indicates that one can sin and not suffer the flames of eternal torment if they die wearing a scapular. Obviously, any who believe his claims about the scapular must accept that repentance (which the Bible requires for salvation, Acts 2:38) or confession (as understood by the Church of Rome) is not necessary.
I should perhaps add that a Roman Catholic woman, who owns some scapulars, specifically told me that Roman Catholics should not wear the scapular as a “good luck charm” and that repentance is necessary for salvation for humans. And she is right about that.
Roman Catholics who accept Simon Stock as a saint should ask themselves, if he was correct, why Roman Catholic dogma would teach the following (bolding in original):
The Sacramental confession of sins is ordained by God and is necessary for salvation. (De fide.)
The fact that Simon Stock stated that all one had to do was to die while wearing a scapular, to avoid the punishment of “capital sins” is opposed to Catholic dogma.
Neither the wearing of a scapular nor the recitation of the rosary is even listed as part of Catholic dogma in Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma.
The fact that Lúcia endorsed the scapular, as well as the rosary, should also show all that her “private revelations” were beyond scripture and Catholic dogma as well.
According to Priest Gobbi, on February 26, 1991, another apparition claimed:
The scapular and the rosary are…a simple means by which God helps His children. Wear it always.
Yet, the Bible nowhere mentions either of these (actually, sewing certain religious items on clothing seems to be condemned, cf. Ezekiel 13:18-20, NJB/NKJV). If this was something that God wanted done, would He have not simply mentioned it in His word?
Yet, the order that Pope Leo XIV came through promotes it.
It, and Pope Leo XIV, also promote ecumenical unity.
Consider further the following:
Synodality as desired and explained by Leo XIV in a homily to movements and new ecclesial realities
June 7. 2025
On the evening of my election, moved as I looked out at the people of God gathered here, I spoke of “synodality,” a word that aptly expresses how the Spirit shapes the Church. That word begins with the Greek word syn – meaning “with” – which speaks of the secret of God’s life. God is not solitary. God, as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is a “with” in himself, and God with us. At the same time, the word “synodality” speaks to us of a road ahead – hodós – for where there is the Spirit, there is movement, a journey to be made. We are a people on the move. This does not set us apart but unites us to humanity like the yeast in a mass of dough, which causes it to rise. …We are a people on the move. This does not set us apart but unites us to humanity like the yeast in a mass of dough, which causes it to rise. The year of the Lord’s grace, reflected in the current Jubilee, has this fermentation within it. In a divided and troubled world, the Holy Spirit teaches us to walk together in unity. https://zenit.org/2025/06/07/synodality-as-desired-and-explained-by-leo-xiv-in-a-homily-to-movements-and-new-ecclesial-realities/
Pope Leo XIV calls for unity in inaugural Mass at the Vatican
May 18, 2025
Pope Leo XIV called for unity in the Catholic Church during his inaugural mass in St. Peter’s Square … During the Mass, the pontiff appeared to choke up when the two potent symbols of the papacy were placed on him …
“I would like that our first great desire be for a united church, a sign of unity and communion, which becomes a leaven for a reconciled world,” https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pope-leo-xiv-inaugural-mass-vatican/
In my book titled The Last Pope of the Malachy Prophecies: Do Biblical and Greco-Roman Catholic Prophecies Point to Pope Leo XIV? I have the following:
Leo XIV will be ecumenical. …
From May 20, 325 A.D./C.E. to August 325, the Roman Emperor Constantine convened the Council of Nicea. One of his political objectives was to get ecumenical unity in certain matters. In 2025, there are meetings to mark the 1700th anniversary of this, which are expected to include ecumenical discussions.
Pope Francis had expected to participate. So we would expect that his replacement, Pope Leo XIV, to get involved somehow in this. Actually, before the conclave to elect Pope Leo XIV was called, Patriarch Barthlomew of Constantinople extended an invitation for the next pope to attend the 1700th anniversary of Nicea. Like Emperor Constantine, Pope Leo XIV would like to ecumenical reconciliation for religious and political reasons.
Last month, Pope Leo met with eastern Catholic Churches (see Pope Leo XIV met with ‘Churches of the East’–what did 1st century Christians believe?). He urged them to hold fast to their traditions–yet sadly, they changed from the original faith (watch: Original Church of the East).
His appeal towards unity is NOT limited Roman Catholics and churches that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.
And there are other groups that he wants and that want to be more ecumenical with him.
Leo XIV plans to meet to celebrate some version of the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicea on or near 30 November 2025.
Among other things, the original Council of Nicea agreed to a non-biblical date for Passover, which is commonly been renamed by many as Easter. Yet, in time, the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Catholics diverged on the date. I expect that the CHurch of Rome and the Eastern Orthodox will agree on the same date again for Easter. That could happen within the next year.
Notice some other statements in my book The Last Pope of the Malachy Prophecies: Do Biblical and Greco-Roman Catholic Prophecies Point to Pope Leo XIV?:
Abbott Joachim (died 1202): A remarkable Pope will be seated on the pontifical throne, under special protection of the angels … he shall recover the states of the Church, and reunite the exiled temporal powers. As the only Pastor, he shall reunite the Eastern to the Western Church … Through him the East and West shall be in ever lasting concord. The city of Babylon shall then be the head and guide of the world …
Even though the Bible warns against end time Babylon (cf. Revelation 18:4; Jeremiah 50,51), Abbot Joachim is trying to teach that it is good.
While Pope Francis took ecumenical steps, could Pope Leo XIV be the one that will seal unity with the Eastern Orthodox Catholics?
Leo XIV could well be the pontiff that is involved in that unity. And he could do so, even if he is not the last pope.
And unless he does various signs and wonders, he is not the last pope.
Yet he is ecumenical and is promoting a non-biblical version of Jesus’ mother Mary.
Pope Leo XIV is one to watch (cf. Mark 13:37).
My hope and prayer is to for him to heed the following scripture–which is shown below from two Roman Catholic translations of the Bible:
3 Dearly beloved, taking all care to write unto you concerning your common salvation, I was under a necessity to write unto you: to beseech you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints. (Jude 3, DRB)
3 My dear friends, at a time when I was eagerly looking forward to writing to you about the salvation that we all share, I felt that I must write to you encouraging you to fight hard for the faith which has been once and for all entrusted to God’s holy people. (Jude 3, NJB)
If Pope Leo XIV would really do that, it would be an exciting and great course of action.
And the Church of Rome, as well as all other churches, should do so as well.
While that could cause a schism, advocating for the original faith is what all who claim to be Christian should do.
Related Items:
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Why Should American Catholics Fear Unity with the Orthodox? (And the Protestants) Are the current ecumenical meetings a good thing or will they result in disaster? Is doctrinal compromise good? Here is a link to a related video Should you be concerned about the ecumenical movement?
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The Last Pope of the Malachy Prophecies: Do Biblical and Greco-Roman Catholic Prophecies Point to Pope Leo XIV? This 154 page book has biblical and Greco-Roman Catholic prophecies related to the last pope, an antipope who will be the final Antichrist. It is also available on Kindle: The Last Pope of the Malachy Prophecies: Do Biblical and Greco-Roman Catholic Prophecies Point to Pope Leo XIV?-Kindle.
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