Did Pope Leo Say that the Catholic Church Doesn’t Possess the Entire Truth?

David Martin | The Daily Knight

On October 26, 2025, the Feast of Christ the King, Pope Leo XIV stated the following during his homily for the Jubilee of Synodal Teams and participation bodies:

“The supreme rule in the Church is love: no one is called to command, everyone is called to serve; no one should impose their own ideas, we all must 1 listen to one another; no one is excluded, we are all called to participate; no one possesses the entire truth.”

So upholding the truth with command violates the supreme rule of love? Since when does “listening to one another” fulfill our calling “to serve?” True service is to pass the truth of the Catholic Faith on to others for their enrichment.  

Leo doesn’t agree. He says that “no one possesses the entire truth,” but what does he mean by “no one?” Does he mean that no one individual possesses the entire truth or that the Catholic Church does not possess the entire truth? It indeed appears that this is what he means, which  if he does, is heresy. The Catholic Church alone possesses the entire truth and is called to bring this truth to all peoples, yet Leo seems to think this is an imposition on others.

He insinuates that Catholics must never “command” or impose their “own ideas” but must “participate” and “dialogue” with others that they might acquire the truth.

Consider his own words:

“I would like to urge you: in listening to the Spirit, in dialogue, in fraternity, and in parrhesia, help us understand that in the Church, before any difference in gender or role, we are called to walk together in search of God, laying aside clericalism and vanity.”

So the members of Christ still need to “search” for God Whom the Church has fully possessed for 2000 years? Is there anything the Church can learn from others? Since when are the faithful called to “walk together” with the blind in a spirit of “dialogue?” 

Leo emphasized that “Synodal teams and participation bodies are an image of this Church that lives in communion.” But in communion with what? Synodality is sinful in God’s eyes so if Catholics are participating in it they are in communion with heretics, not with God.

Leo says we must lay aside “clericalism” which he calls “vanity,” but clericalism is the authority of the priesthood that Christ bestowed upon his priestly representatives. Are clerics guilty of “vanity” for teaching the absolute truth? And are the laity vain by bringing this indisputable truth to others either within or without the Church?

Christ Never Dialogued

It appears that the Bishop of Rome is demonstrating vanity and rebellion against Christ the King. In the Gospel, Christ never once “dialogued” with the people but he taught and corrected them, so the members of Christ should do the same among the wayward. Jesus commissioned his priestly representatives to bring the knowledge of God to all peoples that they might leave their religions and their own ideas and be joined to Christ in the bosom of His Church. Were the popes, bishops, and priests of the past 2000 years guilty of “vanity” for doing this? 

Nay, these loyal ones followed their humble calling “to serve” even unto martyrdom. For they were subject to Christ by following his command to subject the world to His Monarchical authority, which Leo and his clerical sissies refuse to do. Instead of instructing their fellow man on the path to salvation they bow to man in guru fashion that they may receive their gifts and acknowledgement. Is this what Leo calls the supreme rule of love?

Leo and his Vatican had best consider the Gospel warning to those who deny Christ by placing man before him.

“He that shall deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in Heaven.” (St. Matthew 10:33)