I don’t know what to do with this.
I’d like to ignore it, but I’m getting exasperated notes from people.
The video embedded here, about 5 minutes long, is pretty silly. I hope Leo had the good sense to feel a little uncomfortable taking part in this. Do you think he had any idea what they were going to do? He looks a little surprised and awkward.
One thing I will note: Leo did not make the sign of the Cross over that chunk of ice. When priests and bishops bless, they make the sign of the Cross.
St. Boniface cut down a sacred oak tree dedicated to the pagan god Donar (the Germanic equivalent of Thor, god of thunder), symbolizing the triumph of Christianity over paganism. Just saying. https://t.co/VHb8CcQhow
— Father V (@father_rmv) October 1, 2025
Frankly, this reminds me of the **** they made us do in seminary, in St. Paul, back in the 80s, right down to the breathy “prayers” and the flapping of cloths. Really, it is at the same gay adolescent drivel with which they endlessly strove to emasculate all the seminarians. Well, not all. Some were already there and were happy participants in the cringeworthy effeminate B as in B, S as in S.
And I’ve lost some respect for Arnold.
Meanwhile…
BREAKING NEWS: In a desperate attempt to save their Masses, thousands of TLM Catholics are now identifying themselves as ice cubes. pic.twitter.com/4P95FljCsQ
— Sicut Thomas Dubitavi??? (@sicutthomass) October 1, 2025
And…
What we have all been waiting for, an ICE blessing! https://t.co/5s29PJ8b6J pic.twitter.com/l1x4S4u0tx
— Tridentine Brewing (@TridentineBrew) October 1, 2025
“Bless O Lord this creature beer, which though hast produced by the fat of the grain…” pic.twitter.com/Kx90qhxXEl
— Tridentine Brewing (@TridentineBrew) October 1, 2025
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Now would be a good time for Pope Leo to start digging in his heels and doing his own planning, because his people never should have put him in this position.
A Pope isn’t a sideshow to some weird gathering of weird things, and those prayers were pretty terrible.
OTOH…. You realize that the booklet “blessing” directly asked God to help the water do things to people. Even crazy-cakes, politics-worshipping Catholics think that blessings should do things to material objects.
(“May [this water] awaken our hearts, cleanse our indifference, soothe our grief, and renew our hope” is a fairly big ask from the “Lord of life.” Obviously this water is supposed to become a sacramental of some sort.)
(Also, apparently nobody’s rudimentary sense of Catholicity extended to calling the ice chunk “creature,” which is sad.)
Once again we have proof that a sizable chunk of the Curia are apparatchik nincompoops. Peter’s Pence is going to have lean years until these people are riding the pine.
One thing after another…there is something wrong here.
I lost most of my respect when Arnold went on his COVID rant where he uttered his famous “Screw your freedoms” lines.
As far as Pope Leo goes . . . sadly popes making public spectacles of themselves in embarrassing rituals like this seems to be a standard requirement in the post-Conciliar world. I think people (including the men who become pope) now think this is a standard function of the office. Disappointing? Yes. Surprising? Not at all.
Absolute pagan put-on. No, wait, LAME pagan put-on. Cringe inducing lame pagan put-on.
Ok I used to think these are kind of out of touch men trying to be relevant. This is no such thing. Its intentional. This corny, sad, pagan nonsense is an offense to anyone calling themselves a Catholic. If Catholics can’t see with all clarity now this is intended to push Catholics to the mental limits and wreck the church, then I guess we should just accept sacrificing chickens and virgins in St Peter’s, why not. This is NOT Catholic, not even Christian. Its a tragic diminution, a disgusting, shocking insult against the glory of our once-great religion. Popes, saints, and martyrs would be horrified at the shocking sacrilege to see a pope leading such a hellish ceremony, where a chunk of artificial ice is blessed and stared at for meaningful long seconds for dramatic effect. This pregnant pause by a pope praying over or contemplating the cold lump is for our benefit. This is how popes used to gaze at Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, or at the images of relics and the tombs of martyrs, remember? The meaning of the silent adoration here, yes, you should be worshiping creation as I am doing, see, dummies? So solemn, so reverent! (Did you get the shot?)
He was not “hoodwinked”, nor are these nincompoops. Can we stop dreaming “Leo” is just a decrepit old grandpa who needs to be told, this is your grandson, dad, at his birthday party. He knows this is not Catholic, like he knows all the other things hes approved, done, said thus far are not Catholic. Thats exactly the thing about Francis of rotten memory that he so cherishes, he was blatantly NOT Catholic. Thats why he put himself in the mode of Francis devotee, his biggest fan, as soon as he was installed, which they knew was the case and likely, per agreement. Carry on! There IS no Catholicism here, only a Catholicism skin-suit he and they put on to fool the rubes. Why does it continue to work. It shouldnt work. Its too obvious.
It is the TLM in the diocese holding the church together. When it is gone, when they crush it outright, that will be the day everything changes. This is likely the very goal.
I thought the time when I saw the Pope’s name in the news and had to think “Gosh what did he do this time?” was over lol
Distressing to say the least. But are you sure it is real? There is an awful lot of fake videos and images done with AI out there “showing” Pope Leo saying/doing things he never said/did. It’s gotten out of hand. Pope Leo himself commented on this. I’d be real careful before accepting anything that randomly appears on the internet.
Hmmm not sure what to with this either, though have to admit it is an impressive rock of ice. My first inclination would be to ask those gathered shaken or stirred?
And how many olives..never a twist. That is what I would do with it.
I hope we aren’t in for another pandemic —or worse— after this display.
What a gayandretarded spectacle.
Well, Leo thought he was giving a blessing. The MC said as much at the top of this clip, and Leo invokes the Lord and holds his hand over the ice as he asks Lord to bless the waters. Then he adds Through Christ Our Lord at the end of his blessing.
That’s a blessing. Do you know what to do with this now? I’d suggest calling it what it is for starters.
I’m confused – “Lord of Life”, “Christ Our Lord” – but did he not just the other day declare why neither the Theandric Son nor the Zooepoic Trinity is “really pro-life”?
If we want to get technical, he didn’t say anything about blessing the ice. Sounds like he blessed water. At first glance it looked like he was at the Titanic Museum at the ice berg exhibit feeling how cold the ice berg was.