Leo XIV Suggests that Dogma on Women’s Ordination and Sexual Morality can Change

David Martin | The Daily Knight

In a recent interview with Crux Now, Pope Leo XIV all but said that the Church’s teaching on sexual morality could change and he even implied that he has the power to change the Church’s dogmatic teaching on women’s ordination.

He indicated that it might be some time before this happens.

“We have to change attitudes before we ever change doctrine”

So according to Leo, a change of attitude warrants a change of doctrine. This is pure, modernist heresy. No pope of history has ever explicitly uttered or even hinted at anything like this. According to Leo, all the popes and bishops of the past 2000 years were wrong in their teachings on the immutable nature of doctrine and in their teaching that the Church may never alter its position on the criminal nature of adultery and homosexuality.  

In his interview, Leo did say the Church’s teaching would probably continue for the moment.

“I think the Church’s teaching will continue as it is”

While this might offer some relief on the surface, it actually demonstrates openness to the idea that this teaching might not continue. As pope, his duty is to say with 100% assurance that Church teaching absolutely can never change and that he as pope will make sure that it never changes in his reign. Why does he say, “I think?”

Leo Will Continue Francis’ LGBTQ Agenda

In a separate interview with Crux Senior Correspondent Elise Ann Allen on July 30, Pope Leo said that his approach to LGBTQ Catholics will be similar to that of his predecessor, namely, to include homosexuals in the Church as they are.

“What I’m trying to say is what Francis said very clearly when he would say, ‘todos, todos, todos.’ Everyone’s invited in.”

Leo said that adopting this ‘all inclusion’ agenda would not mean a change of Church teaching, which is irrational since the Church has always taught against the inclusion of all. Therefore to say that it should include all constitutes an attempt to change the teaching of the Church.

Leo also said:

“A person’s identity, for some people, is all about sexual identity, and for many people in other parts of the world, that’s not a primary issue in terms of how we should deal with one another.”

In other words, we should respect people’s LGBTQ identity and not allow it to affect our attitude on how we deal with them. The problem with this is that gays are lewd sex offenders whom God neither condones nor allows in his Church, so who are we to say that they should be allowed? Did St. Paul not order the incestuous man to be expelled from the Church? (1 Cor. 5) If he expelled the incestuous man how much more would he expel a homosexual? Leo is forgetting that homosexuality is criminal in God’s eyes (Rom. 1: 27, 32). Unrepentant homosexuals and their cause may never be allowed in the Church and teaching that the Church should “include” them constitutes an attempt to change Church teaching.

A Pope Cannot Change Doctrine

Needless to say, a pope does not have the authority or power to change doctrine or the understanding thereof. Leo is forgetting that doctrine is set in stone and may never change. It is man that must always change to please God. A pope’s duty is to carry forth the torch of eternal truth as handed down by Christ through the [true] popes of history.

Unfortunately, the LGBT people that advocate women’s ordination are the ones pushing Leo in this direction of changing doctrine. Note that his interview with Crux Now occurred on the heels of his intense collaboration with the LGBT community of this past month. As we know, he invited 1200 homosexual activists to the Vatican on Sept. 6 to have a special Mass said for them. His connection with the LGBTQ community has wrought bad fruits. A pope of all people must avoid the occasion of sin.

We pray that Leo will avoid that crowd and maybe go to work on scrapping 60-years of change that the Church might be delivered from the present mire that is leading his flock down the path of perdition. That’s the one change that God will accept.