The first task of a pope – as Our Lord said to St. Peter – is to strengthen all the faithful in faith, to confirm them in the faith,' said Bishop Schneider.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider has issued a call for Pope Leo XIV to urgently and formally correct the “tremendous doctrinal confusion” present in the Church.
Speaking on the monthly webinar for the Confraternity of Our Lady of Fatima, Schneider offered assessments of the new papacy and the issues which need to be addressed in the current pontificate.
“The first task of a pope – as Our Lord said to St. Peter – is to strengthen all the faithful in faith, to confirm them in the faith,” said the bishop.
Continuing, he issued a forthright call for Leo to take action regarding the Francis pontificate:
Regarding the current situation of the Church, of the tremendous doctrinal confusion which reigns in the life of the Church which is so evident, therefore it would be most urgent act of the new Pope to issue a document or magisterial act – he can do this in various forms as an encyclical or apostolic exhortation or an even more solemn way – to clarify, rectify, those issues in doctrine and morals which were in the last decades and especially in the last pontificate undermined and disfigured, or sometimes even denied.
This, said Schneider, “should be done as the most urgent act of the new pope.”
As already highlighted, a number of elements of Francis’ papacy have been cause for great confusion amongst Catholics, including his restrictions on the traditional Mass, the promotion of blessing same-sex “couples,” and the upending of the Church’s moral order.
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