Since the 2013 resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the elections of Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV, no intelligent person would deny the existence of the Lavender Mafia that dominates the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church today. When I read comments in response to articles about Pope Leo, praising him for standing up to elected officials like President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance, I am led to conclude that many people have a very uninformed view of Robert Prevost, just like they did of Jorge Bergoglio.
One reason that many people fail to know who Pope Leo really is stems from biased reporting by both the mainstream and Catholic media. Following the election of Pope Francis, French investigative journalist and documentary maker, Martin Boudot, produced Sex Abuse in the Church: Code of Silence, which showed how Pope Francis, while he was the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aires, covered up countless abuse cases while claiming that sex abuse “never occurred in my diocese.” This very well-researched, incriminating documentary was covered up by most media sources, which preferred to cast Francis as a very sympathetic pro-LGBTQ pastoral figure who, when asked about his promiscuous gay friend, Monsignor Battista Ricca, responded, “Who am I to judge?”
Recent revelations about Twitter posts that Pope Leo made before his election, pushing for open borders and gun control, demonstrate that his feud with the Trump Administration began even before Cardinals like Cupich, McElroy, and Tobin orchestrated his papal election. Interestingly, as soon as Robert Prevgost was elected, his critical Twitter account disappeared. Leo’s meeting with David Axelrod, President Barack Obama’s chief political strategist, led some commentators to ask if “Chicago Runs the Vatican Now?”
The answer to that question, in my opinion, is “Yes.” The U.S. bishops knew that Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich, whom Francis appointed to the Dicastery for Bishops that oversees the selection and promotion of bishops, enjoyed a special relationship with the Pope. Some Vaticanologists believe Francis, even before his death, anointed Cupich as the Don of the Lavender Mafia. In January 2023, Cupich orchestrated Prevost’s transfer from the obscure Peruvian diocese of Chiclayo to the Vatican where he was made a Cardinal and figuratively placed in charge of the Dicastery for Bishops. While serving as Prefect, Prevost proved his loyalty to Don Cupich as a “made man” by frequently reposting tweets from Cupich and other Lavender cardinals that criticized even Catholics like Vice President JD Vance. Prevost and other Capos questioned Vance’s theological use of Augustine’s notion of amoris ordo in support of the administration’s immigration policy. According to Vance, we must love God first, then our family, then our neighbor, then our community, then our fellow citizens, and only then can we focus on the rest of the world.
Even before Francis’ death on April 21, 2025, Prevost’s election was a fait accompli. While the Lavender Mafia’s candidate, Jorge Bergoglio, was beaten out by Joseph Ratzinger in 2005, that same Mafia got Benedict XVI to retire in 2013 when Francis, after waiting eight years, was finally installed. Prevost was the perfect “made man” to replace Francis and be Cupich’s cover boy. It’s amazing how many Catholics believe that the Holy Spirit chose Prevost to succeed Francis.
After almost one year in office, Pope Leo’s shortcomings have been covered up well by the mainstream and Catholic media, aided by his bishops and priests, most of whom share his perceived homosexual orientation. Insofar as over 160 bishops and most of the priests he has failed to discipline, with a few noticeable exceptions, are guilty of homosexual predation, one would expect that a conclave made up mainly of homosexual cardinals would approve the nomination of a homosexual American-born Peruvian like Prevost over a heterosexual African like Sarah.
Not all clergy and laity are enamoured with Leo. One writer on X, Saggezza Eterna, wrote, “This disgrace hobnobs with Barack Obama’s inner circle, cozying up to strategist David Axelrod in secret Chicago powwows while the abortion-devil Obama champions the slaughter of millions of unborn babies….He stays deafeningly silent while Christians are slaughtered, raped, and erased across the globe. Yet this fraud cannot shut up about extreme Muslim Iran, blasting USA and Israel for striking back against terror while shielding the very regimes crucifying his own flock….Loudly damning American delusion of omnipotence and bombs on Iran while extreme Islamists butcher innocents exposes Leo as a selective hypocrite who betrays Christian martyrs to pander to globalist radicals and leftist media darlings.”
How Don Cupich, the puppet master, will continue to use Leo has yet to be seen. Based on Cupich’s recent appearance on 60 Minutes with fellow anti-Trump cardinals, Robert McElroy and Joseph Tobin, one would expect he will use Leo to further discredit and attack Vice President Vance lest he be elected to follow Trump.
Rather than hoping and praying that the war with Iran will result in eliminating the threat of a future nuclear attack, an outcome that would discredit arguments that the war is unjust, Don Cupich and his “made man,” Leo, might prefer an unsuccessful outcome that would lead American voters to elect a pro-LGBTQ, pro-abortion Democratic candidate in 2028. This might happen, particularly when so many Catholics, brainwashed by their gay clergy and influenced by the anti-Trump media, appear to overlook how Leo truly is “weak on crime,” particularly involving sexual abuse.
It remains to be seen just how many Catholics can be played in November 2026 and 2028.
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