Who is Pope Leo XIV and can he turn confusion into clarity in the Catholic Church?

Fr. Gerald Murray lends his decades of expertise to The Conor Gallagher Show to discuss the transition from Pope Francis to Pope Leo XIV, highlighting the new pope's desire to establish his own identity while addressing the challenges faced by the Church.

Other key topics include:

-Why the name Leo XIV matters

-What might change with the Latin Mass and Traditionis Custodes

-The rise of synodality and where it’s taking the Church

-What Pope Leo may do about Viganò, Bishop Strickland, and the Roman Curia

-The implications of Fiducia Supplicans and blessings for same-sex couples

-The death penalty and whether the Catechism’s current language may be revisited

-How the Church can confront and heal from clergy abuse in a serious and lasting way

If you want to better understand this moment in Church history—and what may be coming next—don’t miss this episode. This is a conversation every Catholic should care about.

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CHAPTERS

00:01 Trailer Preview

01:47 Opening & Introduction

05:22 Roadmap for the Conversation

06:45 The Conclave and the Election of Pope Leo XIV

10:50 Vatican Finances / Annual Debt

14:57 Promise of Pope Leo’s New Perspective on Vatican Finances

15:28 Choice of the Name Leo XIV

18:00 Artificial Intelligence / Industrial Revolution / Moral Analysis

19:30 Dealing with Unemployment Created by AI Automation

23:50 Importance of Universal Education / Disaster of US Education

24:26 Early Indications of Pope Leo’s Style

26:24 You’re Not Going to Reform an Institution by Putting Previous #2 into #1 Spot

27:12 Leo Put a Religious Woman into a Head Position / Concerning to Fr. Murray

27:35 CDF / Secretary of State (Parolin & Fernandez)

28:35 Ratzinger, Mueller, Fernandez

29:50 Fernandez’s Author of “Responsa” for Traditionis Custodes

31:30 What Might Leo XIV Do with the Vigano Situation?

36:21 What About Bishop Strickland?

39:01 Paul VI, JPII, Benedict XVI & Francis – Restricting & Supporting Latin Mass

45:35 What Will Leo Do With the Latin Mass?

46:58 What a Bishop Can Do to Prescribe Certain Liturgical Practices in His Diocese

50:42 Bishops Cannot Prohibit Something Permitted by Roman Missal

53:40 SSPX and Traditional Latin Mass – Logical Inconsistency

56:46 Does SSPX Chapel Fulfill Sunday Obligation?

57:40 The Regularization of SSPX That Never Happened

59:33 Can a Catholic in Charlotte Go to SSPX Chapel?

1:01:17 Does a New Religious Order or Community Need Bishop’s Approval to Move into a Diocese?

1:03:42 Fiducia Supplicans: “One of the Worst” Documents to Ever Come Out of Vatican

1:04:59 Church’s Long-Standing Definition of “Couple”

1:08:28 Blessing a “Couple” Without Blessing Their “Coupleness”

1:10:07 Problem: Leading People into Mortal Sin Activity Without Them Understanding It

1:11:30 Fr. James Martin Giving a Blessing to Two Gay Men the Day After Document is Published

1:14:05 Fr. Murray’s Review of Fr. Martin’s LGBT Book

1:19:27 “Verbal Engineering Precedes Social Engineering”

1:20:35 God Created Human Body for Certain Purposes

1:26:28 What Church Should Be Doing Regarding LGBT?

1:29:10 “Smoke of Satan Has Entered into Church” – Heresy, Immorality, etc...

1:29:54 How Did Homosexuality Make Its Way So Deeply into Church/Clergy?

1:33:00 “Book of Gomorrah” by St. Damien

1:37:00 Dealing with Transgender Ideology

1:42:49 Introducing Synodality: “Prediction: We Have a Problem Here”

1:47:37 Problem with Nun Leading Dicastery for Religious

1:49:42 German “Synodal Way” Demands for Heretical Ideas

1:51:20 Argument Over Continuity vs. Discontinuity of Vatican II

1:54:58 How Synodality Can End Up Mirroring Protestantism

1:58:20 Apostolic Letter Amoris Laetitia

2:04:39 Do You Know Other Examples of a Pope Teaching Things Contrary to Church’s Teaching?

2:07:43 The Death Penalty

2:09:00 How Does Pope Change the Catechism Without Bishops?

2:11:00 Types of “Infallibility”

2:13:14 McCarrick Story & Francis’s Responses

2:26:46 Hope for This Papacy and Future of Church

2:27:38 Rapid Fire Questions: Who Is Fr. Murray? Favorite Movie, Book, etc...