The selection of Pope Leo XIV, who was born in America and spent many years serving in Peru, means a papacy that is “inclusive and embracing” of the world’s Catholics, C.J. Doyle, the executive director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, said on Newsmax Sunday. 

“I think he’s also going to be a very Marian Pope,” added Doyle, interviewed on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend,” referring to a deep devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. “He visited the Augustinian shrine of Our Lady of Good Counsel and in his sermon for his first Sunday Mass, the Good Shepherd Sunday in the new calendar, he talked about having the Blessed Virgin Mary accompany us as we follow Jesus, so I think it’s going to be a very, very Marian papacy.”

The new Pope may also be a “bit more traditional” than the late Pope Francis was, said Doyle. 

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