Leo Condemns Pro-Life, Pro-Catholic, Anti-LGBT Ideology as His “Greatest Concern in Spain” as Spanish Catholicism Collapses

Meanwhile Leo promotes pro Masonic and pro gay marriage bishops and tells his own country to stuff their 250th birthday and Board of Peace so he can visit illegal invaders

There’s a particular kind of clerical tone you can recognize from a mile away. It’s the tone of a man staring at a burning house and deciding the emergency is the neighbors’ voting habits. Leo XIV, in a meeting with Spanish bishops, fixates on “far-right ideology” as his “greatest concern in Spain,” while the wider Church crisis keeps metastasizing in plain sight.

And the point here is bigger than Spain. These snippets function like a diagnostic panel. Put them side by side and you see the operating system. The postconciliar Vatican doesn’t merely comment on politics; it thinks in political categories first, and then retrofits religion around them. That’s why the “threats” are always external, electoral, and framed as optics and “instrumentalization,” while actual enemies of the Faith receive dialogue, promotions, and friendly language about “overcoming prejudice.”

With all of the hell going on in the church, Leo chooses to scold the “right wing extremism in Spain.” Disgust is the correct instinct. The deeper question is why this keeps happening, and why it keeps happening from the top.

Spain: the enemy Leo sees

Leo XIV told Spanish bishops that “far-right ideology” was his “greatest concern in Spain,” warning that “extremist movements” are trying to “win the Catholic vote” and instrumentalize the Church for partisan ends. El País adds a telling detail: the bishops were surprised at how directly he focused on the political right “rather than other concerns they had presented to him.”

Pause there. Spain is a graveyard of Catholic practice, a laboratory for aggressive secularism, and a test case for what happens when a nation that once looked Catholic begins to treat the Faith as a museum artifact. Yet the “greatest concern” presented here is ideological competition for the Catholic vote.

According to Statista:

Proportion of Catholics in Spain 2011-2025

Although traditionally a Catholic country, Spain saw a decline in the number of believers over the past years. Compared to 2011, when the share of believers accounted for slightly over 70 percent of the Spanish population, the Catholic community lost approximately 15 percentage points of their faithful by June 2025 with a share of 56.1 percent of the surveyed population. Believers of a religion other than Catholicism accounted for approximately 3.6 percent of the Spanish population in 2025 according to the most recent data.

A Catholic majority, a practicing minority

Going to mass is no longer a thing in Spain, or so it would seem when looking at the latest statistics about the matter: over 47 percent of those who consider themselves Catholics almost never attend any religious service in June 2025.

The not so Catholic Spain

Around 37 percent of the surveyed population stated to be either non-believers or full atheists in 2025. Non-believers or people that do not have a religious faith fluctuated over the past years with the latest figures showing a 21 percent of people that categorize themselves as so. The share of Spanish atheists is on the rise according to the most recent surveys, taking up 13.3 percent of respondents in June 2025.

The papal instinct should be ordered: defend doctrine, restore worship, discipline the clergy, preach repentance, call nations and rulers to the natural law. That is what the office exists to do. Instead, the concern is framed like a campaign strategist’s anxiety: how do we stop the “right-wing?” Meanwhile the political “extremist” right ideology Leo attacks in Spain is pro-life, pro-Catholic, pro-borders, and anti-LGBT.

Then comes the strangest add-on in the same excerpt: “Following the meeting, the bishops changed their stance on stalled abuse compensation negotiations and expressed support for the government’s immigration plan.” That’s the smell of the modern arrangement. The Church speaks the moral language preferred by the regime, and in exchange the regime offers a tolerable space for the institution to keep operating. Everyone calls it “dialogue.” It resembles a quiet bargain.

So when you read “far-right ideology biggest threat,” you are reading the regime’s approved list of dangers: internalized, repeated, and then imposed as the new episcopal priority.

The Lodges Get Promotions

Next we pivot to Italy, and it’s the kind of story that would have detonated Catholic Europe in another century: a bishop attends the opening ceremony of a Masonic lodge; the lodge’s Grand Master praises the secular state and hopes September 20 will again be celebrated as a holiday marking liberation from “the domination of the Church.”

Then, per LifeSite, Leo XIV promotes that same bishop, Monsignor Francesco Antonio Soddu, to Metropolitan Archbishop of Sassari.

The details matter because the modern Vatican always hides behind ambiguity. The bishop “participated” in the inauguration of the local Freemasonry headquarters “together with numerous city and government officials.” In the statement quoted, Soddu “thanked” the Freemasons for the invitation and expressed hope that such initiatives foster “dialogue and exchange,” “overcoming prejudice.”

That phrase “overcoming prejudice” is the acid that dissolves Catholic memory. It treats the Church’s historic condemnation as mere bigotry, a social misunderstanding, a failure of etiquette. The LifeSite excerpt pushes back in exactly the right register: the condemnation of Freemasonry is grounded in an incompatibility of worldviews, a clash between Catholic truth and Masonic relativism and syncretism.

And here’s the key: once you accept the modern framing, condemnations as “prejudice,” every ancient line the Church drew becomes a candidate for repeal. It’s the same move used for sexual morality, for religious indifferentism, for the uniqueness of Christ, for the missionary mandate. First, downgrade doctrine into “historical posture.” Then, replace it with “dialogue.”

This is why all of these stories feel like a montage of the same movie. Leo worries about the “far right” in Spain, but when it comes to Freemasonry, the language shifts to bridge-building and “exchange.” A Church that once warned the faithful about the lodges now offers them ecclesial validation through promotion.

“A step forward”: the pastoral rebranding of moral revolt

Spain returns with another exhibit: Bishop José Antonio Satué of Málaga praises blessings for same-sex couples. He calls it “a step forward,” while adding the familiar throat-clearing line that “marriage” remains between a man and a woman, followed immediately by the demand to integrate this “reality” into pastoral practice.

This is the postconciliar method in miniature. Keep the noun “marriage” reserved for traditional definition while importing everything marriage signifies - public recognition, moral affirmation, ecclesial warmth - through parallel channels. Call the relationship a “pastoral reality.” Treat resistance as cruelty.

The phrase “relationship project” is doing a lot of work here. It presents sin as a plan, as a constructive human good, and a life-architecture deserving religious blessing. And once the blessing becomes the “step forward,” the old moral teaching becomes the obstacle, the embarrassment, the thing we “handle” with better messaging.

The pattern reads clearly: heterodoxy is not a career-killer in this system. It’s often a credential.

Leo Rejects Invitation to His Own Country’s 250th Birthday to Visit Illegal Aliens

Then Reuters adds the photo-op layer: Leo turned down a personal invitation delivered by JD Vance to celebrate America’s 250th birthday on the Fourth of July. Earlier Leo turned down President Trump’s invitation’s to join his Board of Peace as an alternative to the failed, corrupt United Nations. Leo, preferring failure and corruption as evidenced by his synodal church, rejected the offer, preferring to hold hands with the godless UN. President Trump called both decisions political and he was correct. The late Charlie Kirk nailed the program for Leo right after he was elected. He has been proven true. The only thing he got wrong was giving Leo too much credit; predicting he would be issuing pro-life and anti-transgender encyclicals.

Instead Leo will spend July 4 visiting Lampedusa, the “first port of call” for illegal aliens sailing from North Africa to invade Europe. Instead of examining his own migration ideology - which is based solely on left-wing politics and globalism and not Catholicism - Leo has hypocritically called for “deep reflection” on how migrants are being treated in the U.S. under the Trump administration.

The trip itself fits the Francis template perfectly. Francis went to Lampedusa early; Leo goes again, and on America’s national holiday. Symbol stacked on symbol. The message is aimed at American domestic politics; not migrants.

And the Vatican press office insists: “The pope will not go to the United States in 2026.” So the papacy that once crossed oceans to confirm the brethren in the Faith now declines his own country’s 250th celebration, while selecting a different stage, one that aligns with the preferred moral narrative of the international managerial class.

Because here’s what the modern Vatican consistently does: it elevates humanitarian language into a substitute for Catholic governance. It speaks endlessly about accompaniment, smiles, faces, journeys, hopes. Meanwhile doctrine becomes negotiable and discipline becomes a public-relations liability.

This is how you get the same papal ecosystem capable of scolding the “far right” as the “greatest concern,” while a bishop who publicly fraternizes with Freemasonry can be promoted, and a bishop praising homosexual blessings can be treated as a normal shepherd.

The deeper pattern: Vatican II’s Church of “values,” managed by symbols

Taken together, these excerpts show a Church that has swapped its center of gravity.

In the older Catholic world, politics was judged by doctrine. Nations were reminded of duties: to protect the common good, defend life, honor the natural law, preserve the integrity of the family, recognize Christ’s rights. The papacy acted as a spiritual monarchy ordered toward salvation, even when its temporal influence was constrained.

In this new order, doctrine is softened into “values,” and “values” are deployed to manage political outcomes. “Extremism” becomes a category more urgent than heresy. “Prejudice” becomes the label pasted over centuries of condemnation. “Integration” becomes the method by which moral revolt is domesticated inside parish life.

This is why outrage keeps boiling over. The faithful are watching an office built to defend revealed truth behave like an institution built to maintain social legitimacy. When that happens, every scandal and appointment becomes predictable. Every “surprising” papal emphasis turns out to be the same emphasis: align with the reigning ideological consensus, then call it Gospel.

And if you want the simplest proof, Leo’s “greatest concern” in Spain was political ideology on the right. In the same week we have (a) the Masonic lodge episode followed by promotion, and (b) the homosexual blessing “step forward,” tied to a Leo appointment. If the hierarchy’s instinct were Catholic, those would rank as existential alarms. Instead, the alarm is “far-right ideology.”

That tells you what kind of Church is being run. The Church of Caesar rather than the Church of Christ.

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