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On Christmas Eve at St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Leo XIV stood at the altar and led his first Midnight Mass as the head of the Catholic Church, a moment that carried real weight for Christians and for the faithful who watch global traditions ebb and flow. The scene was solemn and hopeful, a reminder that the Church remains a bulwark of continuity in a season too often surrendered to secular spectacle.
This Pope is not just another Vatican official — he is Robert Prevost, the first American elected to the papacy, a fact that should make patriotic Americans of faith sit up straight and pay attention. His election last May marked a historic shift and handed the U.S. a rare soft power influence at a moment when Western values are under pressure around the world.
Leo XIV hasn’t been timid about restoring church custom; he moved to revive the older timing and location traditions for Christmas Masses, bringing midnight and morning celebrations back to St. Peter’s in a clear nod to liturgical continuity and respect for our heritage. That kind of steadying respect for ritual is exactly what conservatives have pleaded for across institutions — an insistence that tradition matters and that it anchors societies in meaning beyond the latest political fad.
Beyond liturgy, Leo XIV used his first Christmas season to call for a day of worldwide peace while not shying away from calling out bad actors, openly criticizing nations that refused a truce and lamenting moral slidebacks such as moves to legalize physician-assisted suicide in places like Illinois. That balance of moral clarity and realpolitik is the kind of principled leadership many Americans have missed in global institutions and in our own public square.
On the administrative front, the Pope has already shown he will reshape Catholic leadership in the United States, appointing bishops whose records reflect a commitment to the sanctity of life and traditional Catholic teaching. Conservatives should view these appointments as a prudent re-centering of the Church toward its core mission of defending life and family in an era when those principles are under relentless attack.
This matters because faith and freedom are intimately linked; when churches stop insisting on what is true and decent, public life decays and the ground shifts in favor of a radical, relativistic agenda. Leo XIV’s first Christmas in office has been more than ceremonial — it has been a statement that faith will not be quietly sidelined, and that Christians will reclaim their rightful place as moral leaders in society.
Hardworking Americans, especially those who carry traditional values, should take heart and act: support your local parishes, stand up for religious liberty, and treat this papacy as an ally in the long fight to preserve Western civilization. In times like these, unity around faith and family is not merely nostalgic — it is patriotic.
