Pope Leo has given an interview to Crux, and revealed his mind. But the exercise to read his mind needs a little code-breaking.
The news is good. It’s more than good. It’s excellent: the Pope is a Catholic.
Why should the Pope speak in code? Because the questions he has been put and answered are technical theological questions, each with political wings that could take off and fly around at high velocity if they were not anchored in carefully articulated thought to restrain them.
And as it happens, the Pope is doing just what some of us thought he would. He is using the language and preoccupations of the progressives, but rooting the language in the Magisterium, and emptying the rhetoric of heterodoxical velocity. As a result, it can’t take off like a revolutionary firework and wreak havoc.
