Will Pope Leo XIV Canonize an LGBT Icon? The Fr. Lorenzo Milani Controversy - The Remnant Newspaper

Why are both Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV elevating one of the most controversial priests of the twentieth century? The renewed promotion of Fr. Lorenzo Milani is about far more than one man's legacy—it reveals the theological direction of the post-synodal Church and the future of Catholic moral teaching. The Symbol of a New Church? On July 25, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò published a post on X in which, commenting on yet another “LGBT pilgrimage” to the tomb of Saint Francis of Assisi, he wrote: “The followers of the synodal church… have been ordered to normalize sodomy. To do this, they are not content merely with legitimizing or decriminalizing individual behaviors, but even go so far as to canonize them. This is why they authorize sacrilegious Masses and pilgrimages. They do not merely want the Priesthood to be accessible to sodomites and transgender people, but they are also preparing to canonize some homosexual pedophile. In this framework, one understands how the controversial …