The Great Inversion: How Leo’s Church Rewards the Wolves

Five stories from one rotten week in Rome: where dissent is promotion, sin is inclusion, and Scripture itself is rewritten to fit the times.

This week’s Vatican orbit followed the same script with brighter stage lights: promotions for the LGBT lobby, interreligious kumbaya standing in for creed, a catechesis that preaches redistribution more than repentance, a “gay-washed” Bible rubber-stamped for Catholic use, and yet another compromised bishop gliding into higher office. Different scenes, same storyline: one of inversion masquerading as renewal.

The Soho Shepherd Ascends

Bernard Longley should be a cautionary tale, not a consultant. Yet under Leo XIV he’s a star performer. The archbishop who once oversaw London’s infamous “Soho Masses” for active homosexuals, who sneered at “moral means-testing” before Communion, and who accused faithful Catholics of presuming too much about “people’s private lives,” has now been handed a third Vatican post.

Three in four months.

He now advises the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, and the Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews. Each one of those departments trades in theological fog, which makes him perfect for the job.

When faithful campaigner Daphne McLeod confronted Longley years ago, she noted that participants in the Soho Masses were “perfectly honest about their homosexual lifestyles.” No one, she said, pretended they were striving for chastity, except the archbishop himself.

Now that same archbishop helps guide global Catholic “unity.” In the new Rome, fidelity isolates you, but moral compromise gets you promoted.

The lesson could not be clearer: teach error politely, and the Vatican will call it pastoral insight.

Scripture Rewritten for Sodom

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has granted an imprimatur to the New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition—Catholic Edition. It is, in plain language, a sanitized Bible.

The translators removed Saint Paul’s condemnation of sodomy in 1 Corinthians 6:9. “Sodomites” becomes “men who engage in illicit sex.” The word arsenokoitai, literally “male-bedder,” coined from the Levitical ban, has been neutralized into ambiguity.

Dr. Robert Gagnon called it “the first major modern English translation to eliminate any reference to homosexual practice.” He’s right. The bishops signed off anyway.

For decades, the modern hierarchy insisted on obedience to approved translations. Now that same bureaucracy approves a text that edits the Apostle to fit the zeitgeist. They have moved from mistranslating prayers to mistranslating Revelation itself.

A Church that can no longer defend Scripture simply edits Scripture until it no longer needs defending.

Graz: The Bishop and His “Husband”

Austria produced a parable this week more vivid than any homily.

Johannes Freitag, freshly ordained auxiliary of Graz-Seckau, has chosen as his personal secretary a man “married” to another man: a former secretary-general of the local Jewish community and professional costume designer for the city’s gay pride ball.

His name is Domenik Kainzinger-Webern. He and his partner pose online in formal wedding portraits. Until months ago, he was organizing interreligious events at the synagogue. Now he organizes a bishop’s schedule, serving as secretary, master of ceremonies, and office coordinator.

It would read like satire if it weren’t documented on the diocesan website.

When the clergy house becomes a stage for the moral theatre of the age, you no longer need theologians to interpret the crisis. The picture preaches the sermon: sin enthroned beside the altar, with a ring on its finger.

The AUSCP’s Gender Gospel

Meanwhile, in the United States, the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests (AUSCP) gathered in San Antonio to congratulate itself on its “inclusive” theology. The Lepanto Institute’s leaked audio captures priests applauding a woman who identifies as a man and boasts of her same-sex “marriage.”

Condemned theologian Todd Salzman was a featured voice, urging a revision of Church teaching on sexuality and sneering at the Congregation for Catholic Education’s document Male and Female He Created Them. Bishop John Stowe praised him from the stage and even suggested every newly ordained priest should take a morality course from Salzman.

The AUSCP openly mocks Catholic moral doctrine while enjoying collaboration with the USCCB.

This is not fringe dissent; it is institutional catechesis. It teaches that gender is elastic, sexuality negotiable, and sin a mere social construct.

When priests begin speaking of “transition” rather than “transfiguration,” you are witnessing the Gospel inverted.

The Reward for Silence

Finally, the latest episcopal shuffle: Bishop James Checchio of Metuchen has been appointed Coadjutor Archbishop of New Orleans: a city already mired in scandal.

Checchio’s résumé reads like a case study in clerical impunity. As rector of the North American College in Rome, he presided over a culture of homosexual misconduct so notorious that an underground AIDS testing program was allegedly established for seminarians. Witnesses reported predators in formation; whistleblowers were dismissed.

One of those whistleblowers, former seminarian Anthony Gorgia, filed suit after being forced out for exposing a vice-rector’s predation. Affidavits from multiple seminarians, including firsthand testimony from Michael Cassabon, detail what Checchio knew. He stayed silent.

Now silence is rewarded with an archbishop’s pallium.

Under Leo XIV the pattern repeats: the protectors of predators are promoted, the accusers exiled. The McCarrick model has become permanent governance.

Epilogue: The Great Inversion

Five stories, one message. Promote the disobedient. Rewrite the Bible. Hire the scandalous. Platform the heretics. Reward the silent.

This is not reform, not renewal, not even chaos. It is deliberate inversion—the moral geometry of modern Rome turned upside down.

But the Faith itself cannot invert. The old catechisms, the old Mass, the old moral law still stand, waiting for those who refuse to kneel before this counterfeit mercy.

The wolves have their hour. But Christ, the true Shepherd, has not abandoned His flock.