Earlier this week, Pope Leo XIV paid tribute to a well-known anti-modernist clerical figurehead.
On 13 September, His Holiness received the participants of a study meeting on Cardinal Merry del Val in the Clementine Hall. The gathering was organised by a Spanish association that promotes devotion to the late cardinal and preserves his spiritual writings.
Cardinal Rafael Merry del Val, the early twentieth-century Vatican statesman and leading opponent of modernism, was Saint Pius X’s right-hand man. The Pope praised his humility and pastoral devotion during an audience at the Apostolic Palace for members of the Spanish association dedicated to his legacy.
