Quote: "It is the infantilization of Catholic life: resist nothing, question nothing, submit to everything. The “childlike” faith Leo extols is not the faith of martyrs or monks, but the faith of toddlers strapped into car seats."
The Catechism of Contradiction
The Catechism of Contradiction
Leo XIV’s Jubilee Week: From Newman’s Crown to the Globalization of Powerlessness
At his September 27 Jubilee catechesis, Leo XIV trotted out the familiar trope: be childlike, be docile, be simple. He points to Ambrose, acclaimed bishop before baptism, as if the Fathers would nod approvingly at a Church ruled by popular acclaim and “docility.”
What is missing? The reality that Ambrose spent his episcopate standing up to emperors, denouncing heresy, and disciplining the mighty. His was not docility, it was defiance rooted in the Faith. Leo drains Ambrose of substance and leaves us with a plush mascot for the Jubilee of Docility, suitable for banners and catechist workshops.
It is the infantilization of Catholic life: resist nothing, question nothing, submit to everything. The “childlike” faith Leo extols is not the faith of martyrs or monks, but the faith of toddlers strapped into car seats.
At the September 28 Angelus, Leo announced his next act of papal …