VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Leo XIV has said that “no one possesses the whole truth” and “no one is excluded” from the Church in his most recent Sunday sermon.

In his homily delivered at the Jubilee Mass of the Synodal Teams and Participatory Bodies on October 26, Leo made remarks that could be interpreted as relativistic regarding the Catholic Church’s proclamation of the one true faith.

“The supreme rule in the Church is love. No one is called to dominate; all are called to serve,” the Roman Pontiff said. “No one should impose his or her own ideas; we must all listen to one another. No one is excluded; we are all called to participate.”

“No one possesses the whole truth; we must all humbly seek it and seek it together,” he stated.

He later reiterated this point, saying, “Being a synodal Church means recognizing that truth is not possessed, but sought together, allowing ourselves to be guided by a restless heart in love with Love.”

Leo stressed the importance of the Church being “synodal,” a vague term often used by his predecessor, Pope Francis.

“The synodal teams and participatory bodies are an image of this Church that lives in communion,” he noted.

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He said, “[W]e must dream of and build a more humble Church; a Church that does not stand upright like the Pharisee, triumphant and inflated with pride, but bends down to wash the feet of humanity; a Church that does not judge as the Pharisee does the tax collector, but becomes a welcoming place for all; a Church that does not close in on itself, but remains attentive to God so that it can similarly listen to everyone.”

“Let us commit ourselves to building a Church that is entirely synodal, ministerial and attracted to Christ and therefore committed to serving the world,” he concluded.

While it is true that no created man possesses the fullness of truth, the Catholic Church, as the Mystical Body of Christ guided by the Holy Spirit, has always maintained that it is the guardian of the deposit of faith, which is the truth revealed by God.

Pope Leo’s comments are ambiguous and may be interpreted as relativistic, since he failed to make the distinction between individual members of the Church being fallible in their understanding of truth and the Church, as the Mystical Body of Christ, guarding and proclaiming the one true faith.

Sacred Scripture states that “the Church of the living God” is “the pillar and bulwark of the truth.” (1 Timothy 3:15)

Regarding the Church’s authority to proclaim the truth, the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “The Church’s Magisterium exercises the authority it holds from Christ to the fullest extent when it defines dogmas, that is, when it proposes, in a form obliging the Christian people to an irrevocable adherence of faith, truths contained in divine Revelation or also when it proposes, in a definitive way, truths having a necessary connection with these.” (CCC 88)

Regarding the Pope’s comment that “no one is excluded” from the Church, Catholic author and commentator Erick Ybarra responded on X:

“Are Jesus and the Apostles welcome? Do their commands have any value? In particular, about not even eating with Christians who live in outward contradiction to the commands of Christ and/or those who obstinately contradict the dogmas of Tradition? (1 Cor 5:1-13; 2 John 1:10) and treating the impenitent ‘faithful’ as heathen and tax collectors? (Mathew 18)” [sic]

“I think Catholic liberals would vomit at the teaching of Jesus and the Church of the Apostles,” Ybarra continued. “They can barely take a Christianity with any testosterone to begin with. They are more interested in the Church that appeals to the pleasure and honor of man than God.”