Cardinals Back Pope Leo XIV Amid Concerns Over Doctrine and Synodality

Cardinal DiNardo has publicly endorsed Pope Leo XIV's leadership following a global consistory of 178 cardinals, even as critics including Bishop Strickland and Cardinal Müller raise alarms over the pope's encyclical, synodality agenda, and appointments of bishops who reject core Catholic teaching. The fracturing of the Catholic Church from within — with senior voices warning of doctrinal drift, human-centred theology, and heterodox episcopal appointments — signals the kind of end-times religious deception and apostasy Scripture warns will precede Christ's return. The Bible explicitly warns that a great falling away will come before the Day of the Lord, with false teachers rising from within the church itself, distorting truth and leading many astray.