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Yesterday, May 8, 2025, the feast of the Apparition of St. Michael in the month of Our Lady, we were given given a new Pope. We mustn’t speak negatively about him or his election. It is natural to be concerned that the hirelings and wolves inside the Church appear ecstatic at his election. We are wounded children still reeling from the scandal and confusion wrought by the last “Holy Father.” Many are dubbing this new one as “Francis 2.0.” This is a mistake; we can never know what God will do. (Sadly, too many have had no genuine interest in Holy Mother Church and do not live according to her Traditions and teachings. Please, God, that this will change and that people will recognize that to be a Catholic in name only is scandalous and sinful.)
But let us also remember that God can write straight with crooked lines. Many faithful Catholics united many fervent prayers toward this election. We must have confidence in those prayers.
Let us recall the story of St. Thomas Becket and remember how King Henry II devised to have Becket become Archbishop of Canterbury. He chose him for his own evil intentions, expecting Becket’s loyalty to be with him and not the Church. What happened? God moved his heart, and he pledged allegiance to God. He gave his life for the Church and died a martyr.
You thought evil against me: but God turned it into good, that he might exalt me, as at present you see, and might save many people (Gen. l. 20).
We, the laity, must continue to pray and fast that this new Pope pledges his loyalty to God and His Church, not the “church” that the emissaries hope she will become. For we know that, in the end, “the gates of Hell will not prevail against it!” God bless His One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church.
Mary, Mother of the Church, pray for us!
St. Michael, pray for us!
St. Joseph, pray for us!
St. Thomas Becket, pray for us!
