All Good Things with Archbishop Hicks: July 7, 2026

Speaking of the church, boy, we really had the full-on, not only institutional, but I would say divine.

The people of Babylon, correct.

The divine institution of the church this morning at St. Peter's Basilica.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

You've certainly been already an archbishop, but this is maybe once again a share with our listeners what it is it means to receive what you got this morning, the pallium.

So today at this Mass, Pope Leo shared with me, but also with 34 of my brothers who are also archbishops all over the world, what's called a pallium.

And the pallium is... a collar that is knitted from wool and it has six black crosses on it.

The collar itself is white.

And as he places that collar over your neck, it's really to show two things.

What he's asking by doing it is showing unity with him, saying that he is our Holy Father.

He has apostolic succession, that he comes from the line of St. Peter.

and all the popes along the way, and now at this moment in the Vatican at St. Peter's on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, he says, here is this pallium Wear it at the masses that you celebrate in your own archdiocese and please through it know that we are united.

We support each other.

We look for ways of keeping Christ and his message in the center of our lives and how we live it as a church.

So there's a symbol of unity in it with the Holy Father.

The other symbol that it shows is it's knitted from lamb's wool.

It's to show that gospel of a hundred sheep, and if the shepherd notices that one of them goes missing, out of great love, out of great care, he goes after the one that is lost.

And so as that collar is placed on me, It's to show the lambs, the sheep, I am supposed to be carrying as a shepherd, and to invite everyone to follow Jesus as their shepherd.

And so it's a beautiful symbol of not only unity, but of pastoral care, of how to be a shepherd.

And also right before receiving that, I believe there's even like a there's a prayer of blessing that the pope blesses all of these palia.

And then you all do like a pledge.

We

do an oath.

Correct.

Speaking of the church, boy, we really had the full-on, not only institutional, but I would say divine.

The people of Babylon, correct.

The divine institution of the church this morning at St. Peter's Basilica.

Congratulations.

Thank you.

You've certainly been already an archbishop, but this is maybe once again a share with our listeners what it is it means to receive what you got this morning, the pallium.

So today at this Mass, Pope Leo shared with me, but also with 34 of my brothers who are also archbishops all over the world, what's called a pallium.

And the pallium is... a collar that is knitted from wool and it has six black crosses on it.

The collar itself is white.

And as he places that collar over your neck, it's really to show two things.

What he's asking by doing it is showing unity with him, saying that he is our Holy Father.

He has apostolic succession, that he comes from the line of St. Peter.

and all the popes along the way, and now at this moment in the Vatican at St. Peter's on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, he says, here is this pallium Wear it at the masses that you celebrate in your own archdiocese and please through it know that we are united.

We support each other.

We look for ways of keeping Christ and his message in the center of our lives and how we live it as a church.

So there's a symbol of unity in it with the Holy Father.

The other symbol that it shows is it's knitted from lamb's wool.

It's to show that gospel of a hundred sheep, and if the shepherd notices that one of them goes missing, out of great love, out of great care, he goes after the one that is lost.

And so as that collar is placed on me, It's to show the lambs, the sheep, I am supposed to be carrying as a shepherd, and to invite everyone to follow Jesus as their shepherd.

And so it's a beautiful symbol of not only unity, but of pastoral care, of how to be a shepherd.

And also right before receiving that, I believe there's even like a there's a prayer of blessing that the pope blesses all of these palia.

And then you all do like a pledge.

We

do an oath.

Correct.