Leo XIV Cracks Down on Trads While Giving the Orthodox a Papacy They Never Have to Obey
On paper, it looks glorious: an apostolic journey to Türkiye and Lebanon, ecumenical prayer over the ruins of a basilica at İznik, a declaration with Bartholomew at the Phanar, a Mass in Istanbul that even manages to say “consubstantial with the Father.”
But we live in the post-conciliar Church, where the camera frames the ruins while the doctrine slips out the side door.
For decades Rome has reshaped the papacy from the visible center of unity into a negotiable “service.” Ratzinger said Rome “must not require more from the East” on primacy than what was “lived in the first millennium.” The Bishop of Rome treated Vatican I as something to be “re-received” ecumenically. Leo’s May 18 homily spiritualized the “rock” into wounded love and avoided any mention of binding jurisdiction.
What began as academic speculation has become choreography: a week of ritual proclaiming that Nicaea belongs to “all Christian traditions” and that the dogmas Rome once insisted on can be treated as historical accents rather than living obligations.
Rather than a return to the faith of Nicaea, this was the public consecration of the decision that no one, least of all the Orthodox, ever has to accept Vatican I.
More: https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/obedience-for-you-dialogue-for-them?triedRedirect=true
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