Augustinian at LA Red Mass: Pope Leo will be a ‘bridge-builder’

Five months after the election of Pope Leo XIV, a fellow Augustinian told attendees at this year’s Los Angeles Red Mass he expects the pope will be a “great bridge-builder” for a divided world.

“What you see on the outside with Leo is what you get on the inside,” said the homilist at the Oct. 14 Mass, Father Barnaby Johns, OSA, prior provincial for the Augustinian Order’s California province. “Jesus enters in, and grace pours out.”

Drawing on the Gospel reading (Luke 11: 37–41) at the Mass, in which Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for favoring exterior fulfillment of the law over inner conversion, Johns said that the greatest danger for anyone — including the pope, a priest, or any lawyer — is to have a hardened heart.

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