A RORATE Editorial Note: Kinship

You may criticize us as much as you want, but we feel an increasingly warming kinship with Leo XIV. There is something unmistakably good about him. He has a good heart. He seems sincerely kind. That is already a huge asset for a bishop, and not as common as it should be.

He will probably (certainly?) disappoint us... It seems this is the way of the world: mistakes, disappointments, and regrets. Sorrow for what was done, and sorrow for what was not done. Fear of doing, and fear of missing out. Anger over wrong turns, and tears over situations that cannot be fixed. It is the wages of the Fall. 

May Traditional Catholics give the new pope the love and esteem and respect, and prayers, he deserves. Freely and without fear, and hoping for the best, knowing they might not be reciprocated, and expecting to be disappointed. It seems to be our fate.

May the Virgin protect him, and protect us, and may the Church of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Traditional Latin Mass and Liturgy grow from strength to strength until the end of time.