A powerful critique from Big Modernism highlights how Pope Leo XIV has drained St. Ambrose of his true character. Ambrose spent his episcopate boldly confronting emperors, denouncing heresy, and disciplining the powerful. Yet under Leo, he is reduced to a gentle mascot for a “Jubilee of Docility.
The author argues that Pope Leo XIV’s portrayal of St. Ambrose strips away the saint’s defining courage and defiance in defense of the Faith. Ambrose was not docile — he was a towering figure who stood up to emperors and refused to compromise truth.
Instead, we are given an infantilized vision of Catholic life: resist nothing, question nothing, submit to everything. The “childlike” faith being promoted is not the mature, heroic faith of martyrs and monks, but a passive, toddler-like obedience stripped of spiritual backbone.
This “Catechism of Contradiction” reveals a troubling pattern of softening the Church’s historical witness in favor of a more comfortable, compliant spirituality.
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