Pope Leo XIV, in the 100 days since he began his papacy, has brought a “calming” presence to the Vatican, Saint John’s University theology professor Tom Williams and John Yep, the CEO and president of Catholics for Catholics, told Newsmax Saturday.
“Pope Leo has not been anxious to issue a flurry of executive orders, change things up and shake things up,” Williams told Newsmax’s “America Right Now.” “He’s actually been very peaceful and quiet and slow and deliberate, which a lot of us as Catholics and as Pope watchers have found calming.”
He contrasted this with the “12 years of Pope Francis,” which he described as “difficult” and marked by “a lot of chaos,” adding that Pope Leo is “trying to bring people together” and proceeding “step by step, very deliberately.”
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