Leo XIV Continues to Affirm his Pro-LGBTQ Convictions

David Martin | The Daily Knight

In recent months we have seen Pope Leo XIV’s ongoing endorsement of homosexuality. We saw it on the weekend of September 6-7 when he invited 1200 LGBTQ activists to stampede the Vatican for the glorification of their cause. Leo personally encouraged the vice-president of the Italian Bishops Conference, Bishop Francesco Savino, to celebrate with them.

Leo’s LGBTQ endorsement is seen both by his appointment of notorious LGBTQ prelates to high positions in the Church and by his failure to censure and expel from the Church LGBT offenders like Cardinals Cupich and McElroy. This is not to mention his embrace of the December 2023 Vatican document Fiducia Supplicans that not only authorizes but encourages the priestly blessing of homosexual couples.

Pope Leo’s LGBTQ complicity is also seen by his failure to excommunicate or at least censure Fr. James Martin for his work to promote homosexuality throughout the Church. Writing on X on Aug. 29, Martin said he would be in Rome until Sept. 8 to lead an Outreach pilgrimage with 40 people for the 2025 ‘Jubilee of Hope,’ which was done with the full endorsement of Pope Leo.

Moreover, on September 1^st Leo met in a private audience with Fr. Martin. In response to a request for comment, Martin told Catholic News Agency (CNA):

“I was honored and grateful to meet with the Holy Father this morning in an audience in the Apostolic Palace and heard the same message I heard from Pope Francis on LGBTQ people, which is one of openness and welcome: ‘Todos, todos, todos.’ I found the pope serene, joyful, and encouraging.”

Martin’s words are believable seeing that on November 13 the pope warmly received two “married” men in a private audience at the Vatican. Leo’s meeting with Alex Capecelatro and Brian Stevens is being hailed by the mainstream media, but clearly this signals danger. Leo’s meeting mirrors Pope Francis’s past meetings with LGBTQ offenders and testifies to his endorsement of homosexuality.

Capecelatro commented on their meeting with Pope Leo.

“I was not raised Catholic, so it was especially heartwarming to experience this moment with Brian, who is a devout Catholic. When Brian mentioned to the pope that we are married, we both felt received with warmth and kindness, which made the encounter even more meaningful.”

Far from admonishing Fr. Martin about his shameful aspirations, Leo encourages him to continue his work despite his historic blessing of a homosexual marriage at St. Paul’s Church in New York City. This took place on December 23, 2023, just after Francis had approved priestly blessings for same-sex couples via Fiducia Supplicans.

Speaking to Vatican reporter Elise Allen on the issue of LGBTQ inclusion, Leo said he is trying to follow the lead of Pope Francis, whose welcoming comments and gestures were widely praised by LGBTQ Catholics.

“What I’m trying to say is what Francis said very clearly when he would say, “todos, todos, todos,’” Leo said in reference to his predecessor’s insistence that the church welcome homosexuals and all people. “Everyone’s invited in,” he said, meaning as they are. “You’re all welcome, and let’s get to know one another and respect one another.”

The implication is that all are to be welcomed and dignified despite their ideologies and sexual orientation. Pope Leo is forgetting the Church’s 2000-year-old condemnation of homosexuality. St. Paul makes it clear that LGBTQ is a heinous offense that incurs God’s punishment. It was for the sins of idolatry and pride that God abandoned the wicked to their shame.

“God delivered them up to shameful affections. For their women have changed the natural use into that use which is against nature. And, in like manner, the men also, leaving the natural use of the women, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men working that which is filthy, and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due to their error.” (Romans 1: 26,27) 

The Church Cannot Bless LGBTQ

Let it suffice to say that the Church cannot bless homosexuality for the simple reason that God cannot and will not bless sin. Leo fully endorses the priestly blessing of homosexual couples, which constitutes an attempt at blessing their sin. For to bless a gay couple is precisely to bless their cause just as blessing a rapist after telling the priest that he would continue to rape women would be an attempt at blessing his sin. It would make more sense for a priest to bless rape, arson, or grand theft auto since these are not as serious a crime as homosexuality. LGBTQ is one of the four sins crying to heaven for vengeance, while the other three are not. The priestly blessing of LGBTQ couples is a curse that strengthens Satan’s power over the recipients and the priest.

Let Leo and the Roman hierarchy consider the warning of Holy Scripture to those who use their clerical position to misguide the children of God.

“Because being ministers of his kingdom, you have not judged rightly, nor kept the law of justice, nor walked according to the will of God. Horribly and speedily will he appear to you: for a most severe judgment shall be for them that bear rule.” (Wisdom 6:5,6)

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