The Lavender Legacy Continues: Leo XIV Endorses Fiducia Supplicans
The pontificate of Francis lives on. The papal reboot Trad Inc. promised was a fantasy.
Well, that didn’t take long.
Not even two months after the white smoke, and already the Vatican’s top doctrinal officer has made it crystal clear: the controversial Fiducia Supplicans, Francis’s infamous 2023 document that legitimized blessings for same-sex couples, will “absolutely” remain in force under Leo XIV.
So much for reform.
The Lavender Curtain Doesn’t Close
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, still head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, told Il Messaggero’s Franca Giansoldati:
“The Declaration will remain… Fiducia Supplicans will absolutely not fall into oblivion.”
Not “revised.”
Not “reconsidered.”
Not “suspended pending further synodal reflection.”
Nope. Just reaffirmed, defended, and permanently installed.
This follows Fiducia Supplicans’s literal text, which opens the door to “blessing couples in irregular situations and same-sex couples” under the guise of “non-liturgical” gestures. As if wrapping modernist rebellion in the language of nuance somehow justifies the theological rot.
Austen Ivereigh boasted the same on X:
“The blessings of gay people in relationships… will remain.”
Rich Raho added,
“Received in audience just 2 days ago by Pope Leo, DDF Prefect Cardinal Fernandez forcefully says Fiducia Supplicans ‘will remain’…”
So let’s be honest: Fiducia has not just survived the Francis era, it is being institutionalized under Leo. That means any traditionalist pundit, bishop, or blogger still claiming we’ve entered a new era of “reform” is either naive or willfully blind.
Trad Inc. Did a 24-Hour Pivot and Now We See Why
When Leo XIV was elected, many Trad Inc. voices, who just days earlier warned about Fernandez, LGBTQ blessings, and Francis’s doctrinal chaos, suddenly pivoted to a hopeful, even glowing tone.
“Maybe this is our Benedict XVII!”
“Let’s give him time.”
“His voice is so pastoral!”
That sudden shift wasn’t based on any doctrinal clarification or papal repentance. It was based on papal aesthetics, low expectations, and above all, a desperate hunger for permission to cling to Rome no matter how corrupted it becomes.
They told us Leo might rein in the synodal madness. That he would at least walk back Fiducia Supplicans. That he wouldn’t double down on Francis’s worst excesses.
Wrong on every count.
Trad Inc. sold you a fairytale. And they did it fast, within hours of Leo’s election, because they didn’t want to be caught on the wrong side of papal access, TLM favors, or Vatican press credentials.
Africa and the Resistance That Rome Ignores
Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo of Kinshasa, Congo, voiced what many faithful Catholics are thinking:
“For us, it remains a fundamental doctrinal problem… It was a surprise, experienced as a sort of imposition.”
Africans, he explained, are dealing with poverty, war, and persecution. They’re not looking for blessings of moral irregularity, they’re looking for fidelity, for survival.
“This topic, related to gay blessings, is more for you Europeans.”
He rejects criminalizing homosexuality, but also rejects pretending it is compatible with Church teaching. That’s the mature, Catholic position. It’s the one being ignored.
What’s more, Ambongo emphasizes that Africans aren’t the only ones resisting Fiducia, many European episcopates have quietly shelved it too.
But the Vatican? They’re marching forward with PRIDE flags and pastoral gaslighting.
Fernandez: Still in Power, Still in Charge
This whole debacle proves something more disturbing: Fernández is still the gatekeeper of doctrine. The man who ghostwrote Amoris Laetitia, shoved Traditionis Custodes down our throats, and gave us Fiducia Supplicans: he’s still calling the shots under Leo.
“Absolutely not,” he said, when asked if Fiducia might fade away.
That’s a full-throated affirmation of Francis’s theological revolution.
And remember, Leo could have fired him.
So far he hasn’t.
Final Thoughts: The Real Continuity
They said Leo would restore continuity with tradition.
They were right, but not in the way they meant.
This is continuity with Vatican II. Continuity with Amoris. Continuity with Traditionis Custodes. Continuity with Pachamama. Continuity with rainbow stoles on rainbow altars and the deconstruction of Catholic moral theology in real time.
It’s the continuity of apostasy.
Let’s be blunt: Fiducia Supplicans is no longer a temporary anomaly, but the new normal in the conciliar church. And Leo XIV has just signed off on it.
You were warned.
You were mocked for saying it.
And now you’re watching it unfold.
So what will Trad Inc. say now?
Will they issue a correction?
Will they admit they were wrong?
Don’t hold your breath.
Thanks very much Chris. My scorecard on the topic "Is the former Robert Prevost now Francis II or Leo XIV?" now stands:
Francis 32. Leo 6.
I can sympathise with those who declared that Leo was really, really different from Francis. But their view was plainly the result of utter desperation. Another 10 or 20 years of Francis was unthinkable. But just because something is unspeakably horrible does not prevent it happening, as the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki discovered.
We dared to hope for a second. Only divine intervention could have gotten us a Catholic pope, not the men Francis installed, we knew what he wanted. What we have now is a widening split between actual Catholics and modernists. We have no hope Leo will return us to Catholicism or save the TLM. Francis is dead and this is like Moms new boyfriend is an abusive sob just like the old boyfriend. At some point the bond snaps and you're out. When the TLM is banned everywhere its going to cause an exodus. But just the fact its banned in Charlotte and Detroit has impacted us all negatively. Its getting impossible to really love the abuser. We know theyre just biding their time for now. Theyll get around to it.