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Pope Leo XIV Rejects Homosexual Unions, Yet Liberalism Continues to Guide the Holy See, by Augustine Franer – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Pope Leo XIV Rejects Homosexual Unions, Yet Liberalism Continues to Guide the Holy See, by Augustine Franer

Bullet Points and Blind Spots, by Itxu Díaz
April 29, 2026

"More souls go to hell for the sins of the flesh than for any other reason". Our Lady of Fatima. Image by Grok

By Augustine Franer, Crisis Magazine, April 29, 2026

Augustine Franer graduated from Bishop Simon Brute College Seminary and currently teaches history and philosophy at St. Edmund Campion Academy.

 

Sins against sexuality lie at the root of Western moral decay and the spiritual poverty that follows it. The Church should proclaim its teachings on sexuality with unapologetic confidence.

Pope Leo XIV rejected the blessing of homosexual unions last Thursday, and for this the Church ought to be grateful. It surely isn’t easy to contradict the consensus opinion of Western society and to open oneself up to the vicious criticisms of the modern media, especially for a public figure exposed to such global scrutiny as the pope. Unfortunately, however, upon review of his response in its totality, the continued influence of liberalism on the Holy See is apparent and leaves one wondering when, or if, such influence will be broken.

Before explicitly rejecting the blessing of homosexual unions, the pope provided a rather unnecessary preamble, noticeably apologetic in tone. He remarked: ….

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