TRADCAST EXPRESS - Episode 216

Topics covered: Leo XIV weighs in on 'Cardinal' Cupich's lifetime achievement award for a pro-abortion and pro-LGBT 'Catholic' senator. Leo XIV's message to an interreligious conference in Bangladesh. Leo XIV's message to a an interreligious conference in Astana, Kazakhstan. In video message to people of Lampedusa, Leo XIV claims "enemies do not exist." Leo XIV presides over ceremony honoring ecumenical 'martyrs', omits line in Creed. Leo XIV releases Apostolic Letter Dilexi Te on love for the poor.

Links:

• Video: "Pope Leo XIV comments on Cupich’s plan to bestow award on Senator Durbin", EWTN News (Sep. 30, 2025)
• "USA: Pro-abortion politician declines Cardinal Cupich award: Pope Leo intervenes and Archbishop of Chicago issues this statement", Zenit (Oct. 1, 2025)
• Leo XIV, Message to Participants in the Interreligious Meeting in Bangladesh, Vatican.va (Aug. 28, 2025)
• Leo XIV, Message to Participants in the 8th Congress of the Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Astana, Kazakhstan, Vatican.va (Sep. 14, 2025)
• "Leo XIV Backs 1986 Assisi Prayer Meeting, Abu Dhabi Declaration in Message to Interreligious Conference", Novus Ordo Wire (Sep. 17, 2025)
• "Francis to Interreligious Youth in Mozambique: 'Our Differences are Necessary'", Novus Ordo Wire (Sep. 7, 2019)
• Leo XIV, Video message on the occasion of the presentation of the candidacy of the ‘Gestures of Welcome’ project to the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list in Lampedusa, Italy, Vatican.va (Sep. 12, 2025)
• John XXIII, Address Gaudet Mater Ecclesia (Oct. 11, 1962)
• Pope St. Pius X, Encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (Sep. 8, 1907)
• Pope Pius XI, Encyclical Divini Redemptoris (Mar. 19, 1937)
• Book: Henri Fesquet, The Drama of Vatican II (New York, NY: Random House, 1967). See page 813.
• "Commemoration of the Martyrs and Witnesses of the Faith of the 21st century", Vatican.va (Sep. 14, 2025); booklet for ceremony HERE
• Video: "Commemoration New Martyrs and Witnesses to the Faith - 21st Century 14 September 2025 Pope Leo XIV", Vatican News (Sep. 14, 2025)
• Cindy Wooden, "Modern Christian martyrs show power of love in face of hatred, pope says", OSV News (not dated)
• Video: "Leo XIV and the Omission of the 'Filioque' from the Creed", Novus Ordo Watch (Sep. 17, 2025)
• "Knowing When to Swallow: Leo XIV Omits Controversial Line in Common Recitation of ‘Ecumenical’ Creed", Novus Ordo Wire (Sep. 23, 2025)
• Pope Leo XIII, Apostolic Letter Testem Benevolentiae (Jan. 22, 1899)
• "Non-Catholic ‘Martyrs’: Francis adds 21 murdered Copts as ‘Saints’ to Roman Martyrology", Novus Ordo Wire (May 17, 2023)
• Leo XIV, Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te (Oct. 4, 2025)

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