Faith and Reason

A turbulent week surrounding Pope Leo XIV raises new questions about unity, authority, and direction within the Catholic Church after reports of potential action against the Society of Saint Pius X spark concern about escalating tensions and uneven discipline. Controversy deepens over Vatican gestures toward Sarah Mullally and public remarks on moral issues. Critics argue these developments blur doctrinal clarity and reflect a broader ideological shift within Church leadership.HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

Pope Leo XIV just referred to Pope Francis as having "entered heaven." That's not how the Catholic Church has ever spoken about a deceased pontiff. Tradition demands prayer for the dead — not presumptive sainthood without formal canonization.This episode of Faith and Reason investigates the growing controversy. The hosts argue that Leo's language signals a dangerous departure from established doctrine — and they trace it back to Francis's own influence. Accounts suggest Francis considered Leo a "saint" before he even became pope and played a major role in his rapid rise through Church ranks.The picture is clear: the Church is facing a deep internal crisis over doctrine, identity, and its relationship with the modern world.HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

The Vatican has issued a new directive discouraging investment in mining, framed as a matter of environmental responsibility. But the Faith and Reason panel sees something else: a Church that blessed Pachamama idols in 2019, whose current Pope knelt to Pachamama in 1995, now imposing an anti-human ecology that prioritizes the earth over the people who live on it.The hosts defend their reporting on the newly surfaced photographs of Pope Leo XIV participating in a Pachamama ritual, not to scandalize, but to demand clarity. If cardinals condemned Pachamama as "demonic" and "apostasy" under Francis, what do they say now that the man in the photo sits on the Throne of Peter? The silence, they argue, is gaslighting: pretending the obvious is not happening.HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

The photograph is undeniable: a young Robert Prevost—now Pope Leo XIV—kneeling in a Pachamama ritual. The same earth deity venerated in the Vatican Gardens in 2019, processed into St. Peter's, and placed before the tomb of the Apostle. The same idol Francis's cardinals condemned as "demonic," "apostasy," and "a crime against divine law."Now the man in the photo sits on the Throne of Peter. And the cardinals who condemned Pachamama are silent.Fr. James Altman and Liz Yore join to react to the evidence that has reignited the controversy. They argue this is not ancient history—it is a window into the syncretism that has infected the highest levels of the Church. The blending of Catholicism with pagan ritual is not a pastoral accommodation. It is a betrayal of the First Commandment. And when bishops refuse to speak, silence becomes complicity.HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

A photograph buried for decades has surfaced. It shows a young Augustinian priest, Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, kneeling in a circle, participating in a ritual explicitly labeled a "rite of Pachamama." Multiple Augustinian witnesses have confirmed his identity. The year is 1995. The location is a symposium in South America. The ceremony is indigenous agricultural worship.The panel on Faith and Reason presents this as explosive evidence, not of youthful indiscretion, but of a pattern. The same earth deity venerated in the Vatican Gardens in 2019, processed into St. Peter's, and placed before the tomb of the Apostle, was honored decades earlier by the man who now sits on the Throne of Peter.Cardinals and bishops who condemned the 2019 Pachamama controversy as outright idolatry have not spoken. The double standard writes itself: traditional Catholics are barred from kneeling for Communion, but a future Pope can kneel to Pachamama.HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

Cardinal against cardinal. Bishop against bishop. The unity of the Church's hierarchy is fracturing in real time, and the fault lines are everywhere.At the center stands the SSPX's planned July consecrations—and a canonical firestorm over whether excommunication would even be valid. Bishop Schneider says no schismatic intent means no schismatic act. Bishop Eleganti says acting without papal mandate is objectively schismatic regardless of intention. Two bishops, same faith, opposite conclusions.Behind them, cardinals choose sides or remain silent. Figures like Viganò and Zen warn of corruption at the top. Exorcists like Fr. Ripperger speak of spiritual crisis masquerading as governance. And beneath it all, the unresolved questions of Vatican II, the loss of the old Mass, and the slow erosion of moral teaching continue dividing what once held together.This is not a dispute over discipline. It is the hierarchy consuming itself, and the faithful watching, wondering who still speaks for the Church.HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

The conflict with Iran is not a distant skirmish. It is a preemptive war launched without an imminent threat, against intelligence assessments, and with consequences already spiraling beyond control.Military losses are mounting. The Strait of Hormuz is disrupted. Regional powers like Turkey are being drawn in. NATO is fracturing. The United States is more diplomatically isolated than at any point in decades. The question is no longer whether this escalates, but how fast, and who gets pulled in next.HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

The SSPX has announced it will proceed with episcopal consecrations on July 1, defying Vatican objections and declaring the Church in a state of emergency. Cardinal Sarah and Cardinal Brandmüller have issued public rebukes, demanding obedience to Pope Leo. Bishop Schneider has offered support. The battle lines are drawn, not over rebellion, but over whether the crisis within the Church justifies extraordinary measures to preserve the priesthood and the faith.Pope Leo's recent episcopal appointments have placed men supportive of same-sex blessings into positions of authority, elevated figures entangled in Freemasonry controversies, and advanced leaders shaped by Germany's Synodal Way. The pattern is not accidental. It is a deliberate reshaping of the hierarchy in Rome's own image.This is not a dispute over discipline. It is a fracture over what the Catholic Church actually teaches, and whether those tasked with guarding it still believe what they were ordained to protect.HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten