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Podcast: The John-Henry Westen Show
Episode: The DISASTROUS POPE: Francis, Leo, or BOTH!?
Description: Dr. Peter Kwasniewski argues that the 12-year pontificate of Pope Francis marked a significant rupture from prior magisterial consistency, particularly on Communion for the divorced and remarried, the death penalty revision, and pastoral approaches to LGBT issues. While affirming the limits of papal infallibility as defined at Vatican I, he insists that even the ordinary papal magisterium must remain coherent with settled doctrine. The Francis era is described as an “engineering stress test” of the papacy raising urgent theological questions about ambiguity, authority, and the boundaries of error. He sees troubling continuity rather than correction under Pope Leo XIV, espe...