Thu Jan 8, 2026 - 4:25 pm EST VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV announced Wednesday that he is beginning a catechesis series to “closely” study the Second Vatican Council, which many priests and scholars have affirmed to be in need of correction. “We are beginning a new catechesis series dedicated to the Second Vatican Council and to a fresh reading of its Documents,” Leo wrote in an X post. “The Council’s Magisterium remains even today the North Star guiding the Church’s journey.” We are beginning a new catechesis series dedicated to the Second Vatican Council and to a fresh reading of its Documents. The Council’s Magisterium remains even today the North Star guiding the Church’s journey. #GeneralAudiencehttps://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/index.htm — Pope Leo XIV (@Pontifex) January 7, 2026 “Closely studying the Council documents will help us to be attentive interpreters of the signs of the times, and to proclaim the Gospel to all,” Leo …
Not with a view toward correcting error, or dispelling intentional ambiguity, but to double down on the most irrational reading of the texts, and the most modernist interpretation possible. They should title it “Catechesis of the Hierling.”