Leo XIV Echoes Francis in saying the Miracle of the Loaves was about Sharing our Food

David Martin | The Daily Knight

While Pope Leo XIV shows himself to have a good and gentle heart, his pontificate is being hampered by his capitulation to Vatican pressures to continue the legacy of Pope Francis.

For instance, we see Leo following Francis’ pattern of appointing pro-LGBT and pro-women ordination bishops to high positions in the Church, or we see him extolling the new rite of the Mass for ‘the care of the planet,’ which is based on Francis’ 2015 encyclical, Laudato Si, which is all about bowing to the planet instead of God. It’s earth idolatry, so why is Leo dignifying this?

We also see Leo slighting Christ’s miracles in imitation of Francis. On June 30, he went on record as saying that the true significance of the ‘Miracle of the Loaves’ is that Christ simply wanted to make sure everyone had something to eat through “sharing.” He said “the Church encourages us to put an end to the outrage of hunger.”  

“When we read the account of what is commonly called the “multiplication of the loaves” (Jn 6:1-13), we realize that the real miracle performed by Christ was to show that the key to overcoming hunger lies in sharing.” (Leo XIV to participants in the 44th Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization Conference, 30.06.2025)

To begin with, there was no sharing involved; the people did not pass the bread from one to another. Nor was the miracle about making sure the people had something to eat. The Church has never held to such an error. Francis invented this idea with the objective denying Christ’s miracles, even saying that the miracle of the loaves wasn’t ‘a magic act.’

But no, it was a miracle. The fact that they started out with one basket of loaves (approx. 10 loaves) and ended up with 12 baskets (approx. 120 loaves) combined with the fact that all 5000 people were “filled” is stark proof that Christ multiplied the loaves right on the spot. The 12 apostles then brought the loaves to the people, symbolizing how the priests of the Church bring the Body of Christ to the multitudes. There was no “sharing” involved. It came directly from Christ through his representatives.

The True Significance of the Miracle of the Loaves

The whole significance of the Miracle was to show forth Christ’s power and divinity as the Son of God so that the people would be encouraged to believe his doctrine on the Holy Eucharist that he was about to expound on in this same chapter of St. John (6: 32-67)

In St. John chapter six we see that after the people had their fill, they came to Capharnaum, seeking for Jesus.

“And when they had found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: Rabbi, when camest thou hither? Jesus answered them, and said: Amen, amen I say to you, you seek me, not because you have seen miracles, but because you did eat of the loaves, and were filled.” (6: 24-26)

Jesus here expresses his disappointment over their lack of relish for the great miracle he had just worked for them. He almost compares them to cats and dogs that follow you around just to get their belly filled. Clearly, this miracle was not about eating. He laments that they came after him for that reason, proving that appreciation for his miracles is what he wanted to see, not concerns about food. Altering the meaning of the loaves miracle to make issue of world hunger detracts from the miracle and tempts the faithful to deny it.

In his statement, Leo goes on to say that the theme of St. John chapter 6 about “feeding the hungry” is “something we may have forgotten today,” but how could it be forgotten when it was never established to begin with? It was Francis who started this idea.

If Leo is to be successful as pope, he needs shake off Francis’ influence and not follow his lead in dignifying organizations like the United Nations that were founded with the objective of abolishing Christianity.

For far from being an international organization of countries set up in 1945 to ensure peace among nations, it in reality is the seat of the internationalist octopus that seeks to enslave America under a communistic one-world government.

On several occasions Leo has said that we should commit ourselves to the U.N. climate action, but who ever told him this? Christ never did. It was Francis who started this idea when he said that our duty is to obey the U.N. when they speak. Consider this clip from Francis during an interview in 2015.

“When we acknowledge international organizations and we recognize their capacity to give judgment, on a global scale—for example the international tribunal in The Hague, or the United Nations—If we consider ourselves humanity, when they make statements, our duty is to obey … We must obey international institutions. That is why the United Nations were created.” 

So, when the U.N. says that we must honor the right of homosexuals to express their sexual orientation or a woman’s right to be guaranteed an abortion, the Church is supposed to obey?

On July 9, Leo said that people who “resist” U.N. climate action stand in need of “conversion.” This calls to mind how Francis said that bishops who support anti-LGBT laws stand in need of “conversion.”

Leo XIV had best liberate himself from Francis’ influence lest he inherit the name Francis II.