The Luciferian media was able to create a false caricature of Benedict XVI due to his good pre-papal work as CDF director, and could magnify Francis’ ambiguous paradoxical messages into Leftist ideological dogma. Interestingly, however, they found it more difficult to create a monster out of John Paul II. My hope is that the legacy media will have an equally difficult task in lying about Leo XIV, as he personifies both sides of Christ in His pontificate – the special love for the poor and mercy to the weak and sinful to which, on the psychological and political levels, ‘liberals’ gravitate – AND the unapologetic clarity of Catholic truth and the need for conversion and penance to which conservatives tend to be more drawn.

Love, which is the eternal essence of God (1 Jn 4:8), is both Justice AND Mercy, both truth AND compassion – not just one or the other. You can’t have a real coin without both heads AND tails. It’s reasonable to philosophically conjecture that mercy is born of justice, and the blending of the two is love – as Eve is born of Adam and their one-flesh relation is Cain (then Abel); and ultimately, as the Son is eternally begotten of the Father and their eternal love-relation is the Holy Spirit.

Human ideology and secular politics, for various reasons, are unable to apprehend and inculcate both sides of this mystery, which is one reality not two. Nevertheless, it is the divine nature of the Church, the mystical body of Christ. Some popes better than others have been able to imperfectly personify this divine mystery, to the chagrin of today’s Luciferian media.