Pope Leo and the Hermeneutics of Continuity
The speculations about what kind of pope Leo XIV will be range from outrageous scurrility to overenthusiastic embrace. I have read terrible things on the far end of the ultra “conservative” enclaves on the Internet and ridiculous things from the official liberal “Catholic” who seems to be whistling past the cemetery. Not only do some of the modernist voices chant “santo subito” about the recently deceased Holy Father, they want to make his successor a kind of Francis Redux.
Only God knows how things will work out, but I sincerely doubt that Pope Leo will be Francis 2.0 or even 1.5. I am just an observer from afar, but one of the things that I wonder about concerns the reaction of Cardinal Óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga to the pre-conclave meetings of the cardinals.
According to a liberal “Catholic” magazine, the cardinal, a great friend of Pope Francis, “left Rome with a sense of bitterness and disillusionment, 12 years after he contributed decisively to the election of Pope Francis.” The National Catholic Reporter said that an Italian daily (Il Fatto Quotidiano) “said that at the general congregations he witnessed the unraveling of the pro-Francis alliance, with many former supporters of the pontiff now becoming, in his words, ‘turncoats.’”
This is significant from a man who not only influenced the election of Pope Francis but also was a close confidant of the Holy Father. He is another one of those prodigious polyglot churchmen with several languages at his command and a network of influence worldwide. I met Cardinal Rodríguez several times, and he
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