The John-Henry Westen Show - Pope Leo's LGBT Agenda： Vatican Abandoning Christ？

00:00:00.000 You know, my friends, after seeing the damage that Pope Francis did to the faith of Charlie

00:00:08.000 Kirk, to his willingness to become a Catholic, I've got to return to something that's really

00:00:13.720 important that I didn't get a chance to address fully, and I'm going to fully address it now.

00:00:18.240 Let's think back to Father James Martin at the Vatican, sitting across a desk to Leo the 14th,

00:00:25.060 both smiling at each other, announced in the Daily Vatican Bulletin with photos at Vatican

00:00:32.160 News and in the Vatican newspaper.

00:00:35.080 A new president of the Pontifical Academy for Fine Arts was curated in exhibitions of seriously

00:00:41.800 disturbing homoerotic art, including one infamous picture of a nude man urinating on the head

00:00:48.260 of another nude man.

00:00:49.600 Sister Lucia Karam, hardcore pro-homosexualist and pro-abortion advocate, having a less public

00:00:57.920 meeting with Leo, but still with Vatican media photographs of Karam clutching Leo's arm.

00:01:05.080 A homosexualist pilgrimage being welcomed to the Vatican for the Jubilee year, with a listing

00:01:11.320 on the Jubilee website, and a mass said and celebrated at the Jesuit Church in Rome, complete

00:01:17.160 with rainbow cross and attendees wearing shirts saying, F the rules, but they didn't stop 0.97

00:01:23.880 at F.

00:01:24.260 There's a rainbow over Leo the 14th's Vatican, and it's not the sign of God's covenant with

00:01:31.140 Noah.

00:01:32.080 Leo himself is signaling that he is indeed what many were calling him from day one.

00:01:39.900 Francis 2.0

00:01:42.100 The most repeated phrase in scripture is, Do not be afraid.

00:01:47.360 We are called to speak the truth, to proclaim the gospel, and to live our lives without fear.

00:01:53.720 For the past three years, we've brought this mission to the very heart of the Church.

00:01:58.880 At the Rome Life Forum, you won't just hear truth proclaimed, you'll have the chance to ask

00:02:04.360 your questions directly to the speakers.

00:02:06.780 This is your opportunity to engage, to challenge, and to go deeper into the battles we face today.

00:02:14.120 Fear not.

00:02:15.500 Her immaculate heart will triumph.

00:02:19.040 Let's begin as we always do, with the sign of the cross.

00:02:22.520 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

00:02:27.180 Amen.

00:02:29.360 LGBT Pride Month usually takes place in June, but it seems it's been going on for a long time.

00:02:36.780 In the Vatican.

00:02:37.520 I just told you some of the crazy stuff that Leo XIV is permitting and promoting over there

00:02:45.920 in the last couple of months.

00:02:48.620 And that's not to mention other travesties like one of Leo XIV's first Episcopal appointees

00:02:56.820 giving his full backing to an LGBT Mass in San Diego.

00:03:02.080 People are not happy.

00:03:03.600 They've been told to sit tight and put their trust in Pope Leo XIV, who we were promised

00:03:12.740 would be the Pope of hope and change.

00:03:17.140 That sounds a little like Obama.

00:03:19.960 But it's very clear that the moves he's taken soon after his election were because he wasn't

00:03:28.920 happy to do this.

00:03:29.760 People have been hanging on to this sort of promise of hope until now.

00:03:39.380 But as disturbing as it is to see a pilgrimage of homosexual activists be welcomed into the 1.00

00:03:45.540 Jesu or into the Vatican St. Peter Basilica itself, or to see a new president for the Pontifical

00:03:51.600 Academy, who has curated exhibitions of homoerotic art billed as referring to sadomasochism and fetishism

00:04:00.480 and art which celebrates the 1970s porn cinemas.

00:04:04.240 I think the real thing that broke the illusion was Leo XIV's private audience and official Vatican

00:04:16.180 news photos with that one Father James Martin.

00:04:20.580 Here's what Father Martin said about the meeting.

00:04:23.860 And I quote,

00:04:24.880 I was profoundly grateful for my audience at the Apostolic Palace with the Holy Father this

00:04:31.720 morning.

00:04:32.780 The message I received was that Pope Leo will be continuing with the same openness that

00:04:38.060 Francis showed to LGBTQ Catholics.

00:04:40.940 I found Leo to be joyful, relaxed and serene.

00:04:44.980 He is a joy to be with.

00:04:47.680 End quote.

00:04:48.200 Now, this is a big deal.

00:04:53.280 It's a big deal for two reasons.

00:04:55.300 One, just how bad Martin's record of LGBTQ advocacy really is, including even blasphemy,

00:05:03.460 by the way, and we'll get to that.

00:05:05.520 But two, the scandal caused by Leo XIV, which is not lessened by some of the excuses that people

00:05:12.960 have given online. 0.94

00:05:13.880 And it's actually aggravated by this sort of orgy of homosexual adjacent moves coming 0.98

00:05:21.660 all at the same time. 0.94

00:05:24.000 I'm going to explain both parts of this to you.

00:05:28.420 And let me start with Martin's record.

00:05:31.920 So just to recap, unless you've been living under a rock for the last decade, you know all

00:05:38.900 about James Martin, SJ, but there's just so much that we can't help but forget bits and

00:05:47.720 pieces.

00:05:48.820 So to see why this is such a scandal, let's recap on some of what makes him so special.

00:05:56.280 Martin is a Jesuit priest known for his fervent promotion of LGBTQ among Catholics.

00:06:05.140 As Taylor Marshall told me recently, he is the best known promoter of the transgender

00:06:10.880 ideology in the Catholic Church.

00:06:13.500 But he's not just anyone.

00:06:17.460 Under Francis, it's not exaggeration to say that he was one of the highest profile priests

00:06:23.220 in the Catholic world.

00:06:24.920 Francis actually wrote a preface to Martin's pro-LGBTQ book, which linked the raising of a

00:06:31.920 Lazarus with homosexuals coming out and embracing who they are. 1.00

00:06:37.040 Just imagine having the Roman pontiff, the vicar of Christ on earth, writing a preface for 0.90

00:06:42.500 your book.

00:06:44.000 You would have to be one heck of a guy to win such an accolade.

00:06:48.500 In that preface, by the way, Francis claimed that he knew and liked other writings from James

00:06:57.160 Martin, too.

00:06:59.560 And Father Martin was a frequent visitor to the Francis Vatican.

00:07:03.980 There were many photos of him and Francis grinning at each other over the papal desk.

00:07:09.780 James Martin, SJ, was given important roles in the Synod on Synodality.

00:07:15.160 He was assigned to a working group on LGBTQ issues.

00:07:19.540 In the lead-up to that event, he hosted an off-the-record event, which married gay Catholics 0.98

00:07:28.620 called for full inclusion.

00:07:31.500 So, now, of course, they are all included or entitled to inclusion, but just like all

00:07:40.320 the rest of us, they can only be included on Christ's terms. 0.82

00:07:45.640 A thief or a robber is entitled to full inclusion, but he must give up his sins.

00:07:53.000 St. Paul said to the Ephesians,

00:07:55.300 He that stole, let him now steal no more.

00:07:58.900 Just as Christ said to the woman caught in adultery, sin no more.

00:08:04.340 There's just so much to say about Martin's pro-LGBTQ record, but let's keep going. 0.62

00:08:10.700 He advanced that awful 70s cliché, which claimed that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah, the reason

00:08:17.340 why those cities were destroyed, was a lack of hospitality and failure to welcome migrants.

00:08:25.000 Yeah, seriously?

00:08:26.700 Yes, but seriously.

00:08:30.260 First of all, that is heresy.

00:08:32.680 The teaching of the Church in her ordinary and universal magisterium, which is infallible,

00:08:39.000 by the way, is clear on this matter.

00:08:42.020 And yet, last year, Fr. James Martin claimed that homosexual relations are, and I quote,

00:08:48.320 integral to the meaning of the Church as the people of God, end quote.

00:08:53.100 Notice that he capitalizes people of God, but there's not the Church.

00:09:00.080 It, I don't know, it really does defy description.

00:09:04.100 Well, Martin also claimed that the Church, or people of God, if you like, would be, and 0.97

00:09:09.580 I quote, immeasurably poorer, he said this, without gay priests. 1.00

00:09:17.660 So, if you're Catholic, he said, and I quote, 0.93

00:09:22.240 they've celebrated masses for you, baptized your children, heard your confessions, visited

00:09:28.260 you in hospitals, presided at your weddings, and buried your parents, end quote.

00:09:34.160 Well, even the modern Vatican has ruled, again and again, that men with the deepest homosexual 0.88

00:09:41.420 inclinations should not be ordained to the priesthood.

00:09:44.200 So, so much for Fr. James Martin, I guess.

00:09:47.580 But that's not all.

00:09:50.040 Martin manages to introduce a bit of blasphemy into the equation as well.

00:09:54.540 In June of 2023, he claimed that June was the month of the Sacred Heart for Catholics,

00:10:00.160 and Pride Month for LGBTQ people.

00:10:03.860 And I'll quote it for you.

00:10:04.920 He said,

00:10:05.220 LGBTQ Catholics celebrate both.

00:10:08.560 One shows us how Jesus loves.

00:10:11.520 The other shows us whom Jesus calls us to love today, end quote.

00:10:16.520 This wasn't his first example of homoblasphemy, by the way. 0.55

00:10:21.880 Only a month or so before, he compared reading LGBTQ books to kids with our Lord Jesus Christ's

00:10:31.360 parables, comparing those who live homosexual lifestyles with the Good Samaritan, for example. 0.53

00:10:38.560 Following the release of Fiducia Supplicans, Martin went out of his way to perform supposedly

00:10:44.560 spontaneous blessings of homosexual couples. 0.91

00:10:47.280 They were so spontaneous, in fact.

00:10:49.360 He did them, and the media was invited at the same time.

00:10:54.560 He was, in fact, to perform a public blessing of this kind in December of 2023, publishing

00:11:00.660 photographs of it on Twitter.

00:11:02.980 Many have tried to claim that Fiducia Supplicans was about blessing individuals, as if that

00:11:09.000 helps anything.

00:11:09.920 But Martin makes it clear that he is blessing these homosexual couples as couples, as, by 0.98

00:11:16.240 the way, Fiducia Supplicans says in the translations that are not English.

00:11:22.640 Last year, James Martin commissioned a piece of art by another priest for an LGBTQ outreach

00:11:31.940 in Georgetown University.

00:11:34.020 The painting depicts Francis washing the feet of a denim-wearing Christ surrounded by outcasts, 0.98

00:11:41.820 including a homosexual couple.

00:11:43.980 So I wonder what he thinks of Christina Perella, the new president of the Pontifical Academy

00:11:49.040 for Fine Arts. 0.91

00:11:50.380 Would Father James Martin agree that the disgusting homo-fetish art is, as Christina said, poetic, 1.00

00:11:59.760 elegant, and melancholic? 0.95

00:12:03.080 Anyway, I could go on and on.

00:12:05.900 None of this is open to debate.

00:12:07.560 This is all on the public record.

00:12:09.940 And I would say Father James Martin is proud of it.

00:12:13.600 But I want to pause and address some of the arguments presented by people who are trying

00:12:20.400 to say it isn't a big deal.

00:12:22.920 So private audiences don't mean anything they say.

00:12:27.720 So first, we're told that all sorts of people request private audiences.

00:12:32.820 And they're given them.

00:12:34.920 They just, you know, you can just go in and request a meeting with the Pope.

00:12:37.540 As with the inclusion of the homo pilgrimage on the Jubilee website, an audience doesn't

00:12:44.940 imply endorsement.

00:12:46.740 It's just, it's just what it is.

00:12:49.320 But you know, just like we said with the Jubilee website, it does imply something.

00:12:55.260 Leo isn't going to be accepting requests for private audiences from the likes of me or you,

00:13:01.780 for that matter.

00:13:02.340 He isn't going to be accepting them from a white nationalist or the International Wife-Beating 0.90

00:13:12.280 Society or the American Nazi Party or the late Hugh Hefner, a pornographer. 0.73

00:13:21.060 So there's clearly a difference.

00:13:23.420 And clearly who he does receive is different to those who he doesn't receive.

00:13:29.940 I already made a video about the LGBTQ pilgrimage, and that showed that while inclusion might

00:13:37.320 not be endorsement, it does mean something.

00:13:40.420 And that something is what they're saying is at least acceptable, even if it isn't positively

00:13:46.560 endorsed yet.

00:13:48.640 So saying that meetings don't mean anything is simply an excuse.

00:13:54.240 And it's an attempt to avoid, really, reality.

00:13:59.760 There's the duty that we all have to profess the faith.

00:14:03.880 There's the people who are saying that we shouldn't believe what Martin says.

00:14:08.020 After all, they say, if Martin is such a terrible villain, surely he's lying about what Leo said

00:14:15.160 to him.

00:14:16.220 We don't know what Leo said to him.

00:14:18.200 Perhaps Leo was actually calling Martin to repentance and to stop promoting LGBTQ activities 1.00

00:14:25.200 and lifestyles around the world.

00:14:28.200 Well, there's an easy way to see whether this is true or not.

00:14:33.560 And it's the same as when Francis used to have that old atheist journalist come and do 1.00

00:14:40.240 interviews with him.

00:14:41.280 Do you remember him?

00:14:42.600 Scalfery.

00:14:43.240 Anyway, the atheist Scalfery would come out of those interviews with Francis and claim

00:14:48.200 Francis said things like, there's no hell.

00:14:50.640 The way to know whether James Martin is lying is that the Vatican will explicitly disavow what

00:15:00.820 Martin is claiming.

00:15:02.140 If it doesn't do that, then we should rightly presume Leo and his Vatican are approving his

00:15:09.540 presentation, that is, James Martin's presentation, of the meeting.

00:15:14.600 You know, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Leo XIV's heir, namesake, if you will, quoted Pope Felix III in

00:15:24.280 an 1892 encyclical, and here's what he said.

00:15:26.900 An error which is not resisted is approved.

00:15:30.820 A truth which is not defended is suppressed.

00:15:34.200 He who does not oppose an evident crime is open to the suspicion of secret complicity.

00:15:42.440 End quote.

00:15:43.120 Well, that just makes sense.

00:15:44.120 Look, if somebody was saying of you on the internet and millions of people saw it, that

00:15:50.520 you denied a dogma of the faith, like the virgin birth of our Lord, so what would you do?

00:15:58.720 Well, the church actually teaches that you have a responsibility to profess the faith openly

00:16:03.720 whenever our silence or evasiveness would imply denial of the faith, contempt for religion,

00:16:09.420 injury to God, or scandal for a neighbor.

00:16:13.320 So you would have a duty to correct the record if someone slandered you that way publicly on

00:16:20.040 the internet.

00:16:21.720 Well, going back to Francis, that's precisely what he did not do with scolfery.

00:16:29.200 He, in fact, did the opposite and invited that atheist back for further interviews again 1.00

00:16:37.040 and again.

00:16:37.660 The silence alone implied consent, but such a repeated line of action says only one thing.

00:16:44.400 I approve.

00:16:46.500 So if a celebrity priest is so dramatically misrepresenting what Pope Leo XIV said to him,

00:16:56.220 Pope Leo has a duty to set the record straight and take appropriate action.

00:17:04.400 While it's been a long time now, there's no clarification.

00:17:08.840 I think the appropriate action for Pope Leo to take would be laicization and excommunication

00:17:16.920 of James Martin and a profession of his own belief.

00:17:21.580 That's Pope Leo's belief in the truth on the very issues that James Martin goes off on.

00:17:29.620 And by association, Leo's now embroiled with.

00:17:33.680 But that's not up to me, of course.

00:17:37.020 My bet is that he isn't going to take appropriate action and he isn't going to set the record

00:17:42.940 straight because we've already waited, I think, for way too much time.

00:17:48.300 Once again, saying we don't know what was said or perhaps Martin misunderstood is just

00:17:54.600 another desperate attempt to avoid reality.

00:17:57.720 We do know what was said because actions speak louder than words, both in terms of the Martin

00:18:04.520 interview itself and in terms of the bewildering set of pro-homosexual decisions going on in

00:18:10.880 Leo's Vatican right now.

00:18:12.620 Is there anything more powerful perhaps than this?

00:18:16.980 So then we hear about the comparison with Jesus.

00:18:20.480 How about this one?

00:18:21.620 This is more powerful perhaps.

00:18:23.080 Jesus met with sinners, they say, and it was the Pharisees that condemned him for doing so.

00:18:30.700 You're just a Pharisee. 0.94

00:18:33.160 Well, nice try. 0.58

00:18:34.940 We're all sinners, obviously, but we're not objecting to actions that our Lord himself did

00:18:42.840 and clearly intended as a lesson for his church.

00:18:46.540 But this is either a really cynical argument or very naive.

00:18:51.800 The location might have changed from Casa Santa Marta to the Apostolic Palace, but it's business

00:18:59.080 as usual.

00:19:00.100 It's reasonable for us to think that because of the burden of proof is on Leo himself to

00:19:05.140 break with the precedent, contradict Martin, and proclaim the gospel clearly.

00:19:10.500 It's not reasonable for us to imagine that Leo is breaking with France's precedent because we have

00:19:19.280 no actual evidence for such thinking.

00:19:22.100 Why would we believe something without any evidence for it?

00:19:26.200 It's also wishful thinking, which might make some people feel good.

00:19:30.540 But, as I just said, it puts souls at risk because everybody else understands the message loud and

00:19:38.380 clear.

00:19:38.880 And even in the unlikely event that it was true, it's still gravely scandalous.

00:19:44.860 A pope is a public figure concerned with the common good, and for him to be hypothetically sacrificing

00:19:52.400 the common good by causing grave doctrinal scandal for the sake of a private good, of Martin's

00:19:58.040 conversation, that would be a problem.

00:20:01.700 And it's, that problem would be massive.

00:20:05.320 And then the comparison with Jesus totally fails.

00:20:12.160 There was no ambiguity about Christ's elevated moral teaching and the need to convert and

00:20:18.540 put aside sin.

00:20:19.980 Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect, Jesus said.

00:20:23.440 He, therefore, that shall break one of the least of these commandments, and so shall teach

00:20:27.460 men, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven.

00:20:29.860 And nobody engaged in public sin ever came away from Jesus being able to say, oh, he told

00:20:38.300 me to carry on as I am.

00:20:39.880 It was just wonderful.

00:20:41.820 No, there was none of that.

00:20:43.700 There was no prostitute who visited him and said, I'm open for business.

00:20:48.560 Unfortunately, there has been nothing like that doctrinal or moral clarity from Pope Leo

00:20:55.080 XIV or from Pope Francis.

00:20:57.720 It's just delusional to even think that.

00:21:00.900 Even the stronger moments over the Francis pontificate have had nothing like the previous

00:21:08.980 clarity enjoyed by the church.

00:21:11.380 In the church of our grandparents, this would not have been possible in the first place.

00:21:17.480 There's no way a priest could be advocating homosexual and transgender lifestyles in the way

00:21:23.060 that Martin is.

00:21:24.060 But those who did advocate doctrinal errors, even of a more subtle way, they were warned,

00:21:33.220 disciplined, excommunicated, and ultimately laicized.

00:21:36.700 Let me give you an example of the French priest, Alfred Loisy, one of the leading modernists.

00:21:43.160 In 1903, the Archbishop of Paris urged Pope St. Pius X to have Loisy and his books scrutinized

00:21:52.480 by the Holy Office.

00:21:53.400 So the books were censured a couple of years later.

00:21:57.600 The following year, Loisy, that's Father Loisy, made respectful noises while maintaining his

00:22:03.460 rights of conscience.

00:22:05.440 Rome issued further professions for Loisy to make, which he refused.

00:22:10.180 And then Rome took swift doctrinal action with a syllabus of errors and the great encyclical

00:22:17.180 Paschendi, along with the anti-modernist oath imposed on many of the clergy at multiple stages

00:22:24.320 in their careers, and the establishment of the Sodalitium Pianum, which was responsible for

00:22:32.860 doctrinal vigilance on a grassroots level throughout the world.

00:22:36.260 Father Loisy kept going, and then was excommunicated publicly in 1908.

00:22:43.160 And that's how real, a real good Pope acts.

00:22:49.100 Remember, he's a saint.

00:22:51.660 And this is how the Church acts.

00:22:54.260 Because preserving the integrity of Catholic doctrine in the souls of the little ones takes

00:22:59.520 precedence over the alleged rights of conscience of heretics and modernists, or the need to

00:23:06.660 call them to repentance quietly.

00:23:09.720 As the prophet Ezekiel said, and I quote,

00:23:12.420 If the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet so that the people are

00:23:18.240 not warned, and the sword comes and takes any of them, his blood I will require at the watchman's

00:23:26.440 hand.

00:23:26.860 End quote.

00:23:28.760 It's also, in a sense, how Francis acted with Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, when he was saying

00:23:35.180 things that Francis didn't like.

00:23:37.440 There are also very many priests across the world currently facing canonical trials for saying the

00:23:43.800 same as Archbishop Vigano.

00:23:45.940 So the power and the will to suppress and excommunicate is definitely there, just not for those who 0.99

00:23:54.140 advocate sodomy, transgender, and other trendy causes. 0.99

00:23:58.640 As such, to grant a private audience to Father James Martin to pose for smiley photos with him and to allow

00:24:07.320 him to claim that Pope Leo told him he'd be continuing with the same openness that Francis showed to

00:24:13.820 LGBTQ Catholics. To leave that uncorrected, on the record, and Martin undisciplined, still in good standing, is a 0.96

00:24:23.720 complete scandal. And we are justified in believing Martin's report of it.

00:24:28.980 Do you know what? I think that these sorts of really flimsy arguments show two things of those making them.

00:24:36.820 The first is a need to preserve one's positive view of Leo XIV at all costs. And the other is that people are not

00:24:45.100 shocked about sodomy anymore. Not even many of us Catholics. And I'm afraid that I now need to give you a trigger

00:24:54.600 warning because we need to talk about exactly why homosexual activity is contrary to the moral law. And this is not for 0.71

00:25:02.280 little ears. And I'm not even happy for my own ears to hear this stuff. But so that we don't get banned, by the way,

00:25:08.680 if you're watching this on YouTube, I'm going to have to direct you to LifeSiteNews.com for the rest of this video.

00:25:15.960 So, what is sodomy? Ready? Let's go back to the basics. Sexual activity is ordered toward the procreation of 1.00

00:25:25.440 children. That's why it's only legitimate in the context of marriage. The permit union of man 0.74

00:25:32.260 man and a woman. And this union, like the sexual activity permitted within marriage, is again ordered 0.74

00:25:39.920 toward the procreation of children, as well as their upbringing in a safe, stable environment. And this is

00:25:47.440 why sexual activity outside of marriage is contrary to the natural moral law. It's also why it makes no

00:25:53.680 sense to say that two people of the same sex can marry each other. But there's more. The human

00:26:00.280 reproductive organs are designed for, guess what? Reproduction. For them to be used for the sake of 1.00

00:26:08.700 sexual pleasure with a person of the same sex is to pervert their very purpose and can cause very 0.98

00:26:17.420 significant health problems. After all, just as the reproductive organs are for reproduction and not

00:26:24.580 mere sexual pleasure, so too the digestive system is for digestion. And that bodily system, especially

00:26:32.680 the latter part of it, if you get my meaning, is really complex. It's crucial for the well-being of

00:26:39.840 the whole body and it's very easily damaged, you might say. It's easy to cause trauma to the latter part of

00:26:47.280 the digestive system. A 2021 survey of men who have regular receptive sex with other men found that 12.7 of

00:26:58.960 them suffered from fecal incontinence. That's not being able to hold your stuff together without the

00:27:06.580 use of a diaper. And in the previous month, that is, they've suffered that. And so imagine having to deal

00:27:14.360 with that issue with having diapers and the aroma, which comes from that. These are not happy things

00:27:22.380 we're wishing on people, we're encouraging in people. It might explain the proliferation of adult

00:27:29.060 diapers in supermarkets in years, recent years, by the way, but that's another story.

00:27:35.020 So incontinence is one thing, but that's to say nothing of the sexually transmitted diseases

00:27:40.580 and even intestinal parasites. Why are we doing this? Why are we promoting this?

00:27:48.920 These harms to people. These things are caused by homosexual activity itself and by the subculture of 1.00

00:27:56.420 unprotected, if you pardon the word, and very promiscuous sexual activity. This, the grave misuse of 0.63

00:28:04.680 such an important part of human life, our body parts, and the harm caused by all this, and not

00:28:11.220 hatred and bigotry, that demonstrates why homosexual activity is gravely contrary to the moral law. 0.93

00:28:18.420 In other words, it's a sin. And in fact, the natural order, reproduction, marriage, and so on,

00:28:25.920 are so important to the moral law in society that the Bible, drawing on the destruction of Sodom and

00:28:31.280 Gomorrah, actually refers to sodomy as one of the four sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance.

00:28:37.320 That's why St. Paul said to the Romans, also expressing the consequences of such activity,

00:28:42.440 and I quote,

00:28:43.860 the men also leaving the natural use of women have burned in their lusts one toward another,

00:28:51.400 men with men working that which is filthy and receiving in themselves the recompense which was due 0.79

00:28:57.320 to their error, end quote. One of the many punishments for this activity, St. Paul says,

00:29:03.260 is being, and I quote, delivered up to a reprobate sense. That is, blinding themselves to spiritual

00:29:11.160 realities and to truth in general, and falling further and further into more errors and sins

00:29:17.380 until they ultimately die. Often at an earlier date than for other people, by the way. St. Peter Damon,

00:29:24.020 the 11th century monk who wrote extensively on the spread of sodomy among the clergy,

00:29:29.960 he summarized it like this, and I quote,

00:29:31.620 Certainly this vice, which surpasses the savagery of all other vices, is to be compared to no other.

00:29:40.520 For this vice is the death of bodies, the destruction of souls, pollutes the flesh, extinguishes the light

00:29:48.500 of the intellect, expels the Holy Spirit from the temple of the human heart, introduces the diabolical

00:29:54.300 inciter of lust, throws into confusion, and removes the truth completely from the deceived mind.

00:30:00.940 He goes on at great length. Is all this and the temporal effects, such as disease, mental illness,

00:30:08.540 bowel incontinence, reduced life expectancy, and so on, are these outcomes that you'd want for yourself

00:30:14.620 or your son or your brother or your enemy? How about even your worst enemy?

00:30:20.420 Now recall what Father James Martin said in his Sacred Heart tweet. He said that the Sacred Heart

00:30:28.880 shows us how Jesus loves, and Pride Month shows us whom Jesus calls us to love today.

00:30:35.860 Huh, what a cliche. Martin and everyone else want to make out of love requires affirmation of a lifestyle,

00:30:43.680 that if we don't affirm the lifestyle choices of so-called LGBTQ people, then we aren't loving them. 0.99

00:30:50.720 And that in fact, we condemn their lifestyle choices, then we're hating them.

00:30:57.280 That's actually the opposite of the truth. There can be no love without truth. And when someone is

00:31:04.300 going in a direction that's going to end in their destruction, there's no love in staying silent

00:31:10.960 and letting them destroy themselves, if we can do something about it.

00:31:15.920 Whatever you wish that others should do to you, said the Lord Jesus, by the way, do for them.

00:31:23.640 For this is the law and the prophets, he said.

00:31:26.800 Father James Martin is advocating for lifestyles that destroy both the soul in eternity and even the

00:31:32.200 body in this life. And Leo XIV is having smiling private audiences with this Judas priest,

00:31:40.200 whose teaching is encouraging precious souls from whom Christ died to embrace debauchery and sexual 0.99

00:31:46.180 sin, while welcoming pilgrimages based around celebrating this filthy vice, promoting those 1.00

00:31:53.140 who curate this art, and appointing bishops who offer masses themed around this.

00:32:00.660 So you're right. We're going to call this out. Pope Felix said, and I quote,

00:32:07.080 An error which is not resisted is approved. A truth which is not defended is suppressed.

00:32:15.180 He who does not oppose an evident crime is open to the suspicion of secret complicity.

00:32:20.520 If we weren't calling it out, or we were defending Leo's failure to call it out,

00:32:27.260 we at LifeSite News would be part of the problem. And we don't want to be part of the problem.

00:32:32.300 Benefit of the doubt is over. It's a nightmare scenario. But it's the very nightmare scenario

00:32:40.280 I warned of at the time of the conclave. The day before the conclave, on the 7th of May,

00:32:45.680 I gave an interview to Glenn Beck, and I told him that if the cardinals elected a moderate,

00:32:51.380 a conservative who might be less bombastic, use a bit more Latin and wear a bit more red silk and

00:32:57.540 talk about our Lord more, but otherwise maintain the status quo, if a man like that, I said,

00:33:03.140 was elected, then it would lull many to sleep while solidifying the advances. You can't really

00:33:13.240 call them advances, but the direction of Francis's reign. Around the same time, Taylor Marshall said

00:33:21.600 the same thing. Three days before the election, he made a video describing a cardinal who he described

00:33:27.760 as a, quote, middle-of-the-road candidate or a compromise. And he said, maybe not as radical

00:33:33.580 and in-your-face as Pope Francis, or as Bergoglio. So this is where he's dangerous, Taylor said,

00:33:42.140 describing him as the worst case scenario on the Francis trajectory and the scariest dark horse,

00:33:48.640 for the same reasons that I just said. So which cardinal was he talking about? You guessed it,

00:33:55.340 none other than Robert Francis Prevost himself, who was indeed elected Pope Leo XIV. So look around us.

00:34:04.240 What I and what Taylor and what others all warned about has come to pass. But if anyone could be

00:34:11.760 forgiven for giving Leo the benefit of the doubt, we need to be really clear, that benefit of the doubt

00:34:19.880 period, it's got to be over now. When people show you who they are, you need to believe them. Before

00:34:28.200 the conclave, Cardinal Prevost showed us that he was a loyal son of Francis. And now, Leo XIV has shown

00:34:36.600 us that he is faithfully continuing his legacy. And scandals like this are going to be sending people

00:34:44.840 to hell. Pope Leo is indeed shaping up to be a Francis 2.0. As much as I hate to say it,

00:34:57.140 that's the reality. For LifeSite News and Sign of the Cross Media, I'm John Henry Weston. May God bless you.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - November 14, 2025

Pope Leo's LGBT Agenda： Vatican Abandoning Christ？

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