It’s Over, Trad Inc!

It’s Over, Trad Inc!
Leo says the quiet part out loud: Catholic doctrine on homosexuality and marriage is changeable; Trads can shut up and say the Novus Ordo in Latin.
On September 18, 2025, Leo gave a bombshell interview to Crux senior correspondent Elise Ann Allen, excerpts of which were published in her new biography Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century. In the conversation, Leo laid out his vision on four flashpoints that have torn at the Church for decades: homosexuality, women’s ordination, synodality, and the liturgy.
What he said was a program. He signaled openness to revisiting women’s ordination, defended Fiducia Supplicans on LGBT blessings, suggested episcopal conferences might gain doctrinal clout, and dismissed the difference between the Traditional Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo as a matter of attitude. Most chillingly, he floated the possibility that Church doctrine on marriage and sexuality could change once “attitudes” have been softened first. …