Leo XIV Praises a Priest Who Fantasized About Boys—and Calls Him a Prophet
In today’s Vatican, the man who wrote of “taking boys to bed” is exalted as holy, while the Mass of the Saints is treated as a threat.
A Church That Blesses Disorder
In Germany, Bishop Helmut Dieser of Aachen has formally authorized blessings for “all couples who love each other,” regardless of marital status or sexual orientation. The decree, drawn from the German bishops’ document Segen gibt der Liebe Kraft, makes such ceremonies part of diocesan pastoral life.
The text claims inspiration from Fiducia Supplicans (2023), which opened the door to “spontaneous blessings” for same-sex couples. Aachen goes further: there are no doctrinal limits, only the invitation to “celebrate love.” The words marriage, sin, and chastity are nowhere to be found.
For two thousand years, the Church blessed what God joined. Now it blesses whatever man desires. This is the institutionalization of confusion. Once doctrine is replaced by sentiment, every boundary collapses.
The “Prophet” of Perversion
On 11 October 2025, in Saint Peter’s Square, Leo XIV addressed pilgrims from Tuscany:
“Don Lorenzo Milani, prophet of the Tuscan and Italian Church… had as his motto ‘I care’. I urge you not to be passive, and to do your part to shape the face of a Church that cares about people’s lives.”
Those words, spoken before thousands, were deliberate. They echoed Francis’s earlier praise of the same man. Leo knew exactly what he was saying. He was canonizing corruption.
Don Lorenzo Milani (1923 – 1967) was no prophet. He was a priest who wrote letters so vile that even his admirers blush to cite them.
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In a 1959 letter he admitted,
“If there is a danger for my soul, it is certainly not that I have loved too little, but that I have loved too much—meaning even to the point of taking them to bed. And then, who will ever be able to love boys to the bone without, in the end, putting it up their backside, if not a teacher who, together with them, also loves God, fears hell, and longs for heaven?”
Those are Milani’s own words, printed by his supporters. They read like the diary of a predator; an unholy mixture of piety and perversion. They reveal a mind that confused affection with lust, sanctity with sickness. Nothing in them speaks of holiness, only of the corruption of innocence dressed up as spiritual sensitivity.
This is the man Leo XIV called a prophet. Who Francis called a role model for priests! A priest who openly fantasized about sexual acts with boys is now held up as a model of “a Church that cares.” It is obscene. It is the inversion of everything Christ’s Church once stood for.
Milani’s educational experiment in Barbiana blurred every moral line between teacher and pupil. It became the seedbed for Il Forteto, the Tuscan commune whose founder, Rodolfo Fiesoli, boasted that he was realizing Milani’s vision “better and greater.” Italian courts later exposed Il Forteto as a system of organized sexual abuse of minors; Fiesoli is serving a fourteen-year prison sentence. Yet progressive media still call the project “inclusive education.”
Even friendly critics concede that Milani’s writings were “full of obsessions and contradictions.” That is a polite way of saying diseased. And still Leo XIV, following Francis, dares to proclaim this man a prophet.
Milani’s Marxism
As if this wasn’t bad enough, Milani was a Marxist. His political radicalism was not the passing enthusiasm of a young priest; it became his creed. He denounced private property as a form of theft and praised class struggle as the true path of redemption. In his writings and sermons he echoed the rhetoric of the Italian Communist Party more faithfully than that of the Gospel. “The poor must fight the rich,” he declared, as though envy were a sacrament and resentment a beatitude.
Per katholisches.info, “In 1952, Don Milani described what comes from Catholic action as “shit”, that of Pope Pius XII as “shit” and also that of Alcide De Gasperi as “shit”, who was then chairman of the Christian Democratic Party and Italian Prime Minister.”
Milani replaced the language of sin and grace with that of oppression and liberation, recasting Christ as a social reformer whose mission was not to save souls but to rearrange society. It was theology rewritten in the grammar of Marx, where heaven became equality and salvation meant the leveling of all hierarchy. In Milani’s world, the Cross was no longer the ladder to eternity but the banner of revolution.
The Scandal of Leo and Francis
Despite all of this, in June 2017, Pope Francis left the Vatican to visit and pray at the tomb of Milani who died in 1967. He described him as a role model for priests.
To honor such a figure is desecration. It tells the world that the highest office in the Church no longer distinguishes between wounded sinners seeking redemption and predators who glorify their own depravity. It proclaims that sincerity now substitutes for repentance, and that vice can be baptized if it serves the new gospel of empathy.
No amount of spin can make those letters holy. They are evidence of a heart that lusted after the very souls he was ordained to protect. That Rome could read them and still drape the word prophet over their author is the truest measure of how far the hierarchy has fallen.
The Mass of the Saints Reduced to a “Hot-Button Issue”
While Leo praises rebels and Germany blesses sin, the faithful attached to the Traditional Latin Mass are treated as offenders. Cardinal Robert Sarah recently revealed that he spoke with Leo about the plight of these Catholics. “The Christians who practice today,” Sarah said, “are those who go to the traditional Mass. Why forbid them?”
Leo’s public response was that the topic is “very complicated.” In practice, Traditionis Custodes remains intact; a few isolated permissions only highlight the broader suppression. The message is unmistakable: the Church will bless moral disorder but will punish liturgical fidelity.
The Pattern of Inversion
The pattern is now undeniable.
In Aachen, love without law is consecrated.
In Rome, a priest who wrote about boys in sexual terms is canonized as a prophet.
Across the world, the Mass of the saints is silenced.
This is the logic of a new religion that calls evil good and good evil. Authority has abandoned truth for sentiment; pastoral rhetoric has replaced doctrine. The hierarchy now speaks the language of the world: inclusion without repentance, compassion without conversion, mercy without justice.
The Church once sanctified the sinner who repented. Now it canonizes the sinner who redefines sin.
The Justice That Cannot Be Escaped
The hour of judgment has not yet come, but it will. Every false mercy proclaimed in Rome, every applause for sin, every desecration wrapped in the word pastoral: none of it will vanish into sentiment. Justice is not suspended by emotion. It waits.
God allows corruption to strut for a season; He allows His Church to be mocked and His altars profaned so that the separation may be complete. Those who preach that “no one is condemned” will one day meet the Judge who does not flatter, who repays every deed in truth. The hierarchy may bless what it pleases, but Heaven keeps its own record.
We may not see perfect justice in this life. We may watch the innocent suffer while the guilty are honored, and wonder whether Heaven still reigns. But the promise is sure: the Lord will repay. The day will come when every blasphemy, every betrayal of innocence, every counterfeit blessing will face the fire of divine judgment. Then the idols of compassion will collapse, and justice, pure, unsparing, incorruptible, will stand revealed.
Until that day, the faithful endure. They cling to the old faith not only out of love, but out of justice: to give God His due when the world refuses. They wait for the sentence that no synod can alter and no pope can postpone. For at the end of all this false mercy, there will be judgment and truth will have the final word.
UPDATE:
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Sources:
https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/bollettino/pubblico/2025/10/11/251011g.html
https://katholisches.info/2018/01/08/don-milani-sexueller-kindesmissbrauch-und-papst-franziskus/
https://www.bistum-aachen.de/aktuell/nachrichten/nachricht/Segnungen-fuer-Paare-die-sich-lieben/
https://www.libertaepersona.org/wordpress/2017/06/don-lorenzo-milani-pedofilo/
https://cathcon.blogspot.com/2025/10/papal-idolisation-of-paedophile-priest.html
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That Bergoglio praised this pervert priest proves to me that he, Francis, himself was a perverted pederast and active homosexual. Leo was probably one of his "intimates" and now carries on Bergoglio's legacy. I mean, this is just too much. They all "know" each other, having promoted each other from the seminary to the School of Cardinals. In this way they have succeeded in taking over and attempt to create a false church with sodomy as its center. They're getting much more brazen about it. But God sees and knows all and in His time and way, He will deal with these fools.
Dear God, this is sick, disordered, and satanic. We cannot follow demonically possessed priests, bishops, cardinals, and "popes"