Pope Leo XIV Signals Continuity Without Chaos

From Turbulence to Tact: How Pope Leo XIV Is Shaping the Post-Francis Church

When Pope Leo XIV tells a journalist, almost in passing, that “you can say Mass in Latin right now,” he is not simply clarifying liturgical law. He is signalling. A new release from Pope Leo XIV’s first interview gives us more clues about the way forward. And This exchange with Crux demands interpretation on two levels: the articulated words and the underlying meaning they seek to convey. The Pope’s words, gestures, and emphases together sketch out a papacy that is doctrinally steady, pastorally welcoming, and quietly recalibrating the tone of Catholic life after a decade of turbulence.

What emerges most clearly and encouragingly from this interview is that Pope Leo grasps the destabilising turbulence of the preceding pontificate and is deliberately charting a different course, one aimed at restoring calm rather than perpetuating disorder.