Pope Leo XIV, like Pope Francis before him has praised a now-deceased priest who reportedly wrote about taking boys to bed and sexually abusing them.
He even called the priest in question a prophet!
Don Lorenzo Milani (1923 – 1967) was no prophet. He was a priest who wrote letters so vile that even his admirers blush to cite them.
LifeSiteNews reports: Speaking to pilgrims from the Diocese of Tuscany gathered in Saint Peter’s Square on October 11, Pope Leo XIV urged “every one of our Christian Communities to a reawakening of evangelization and a discernment on the forms of ecclesial presence in the territory.”
He then continued:
Don Lorenzo Milani, prophet of the Tuscan and Italian Church, whom Pope Francis defined as “a witness and interpreter of social and economic transformation had as his motto ‘I care,’ that is, ‘It matters to me, I am interested, it is close to my heart.’”
Unfortunately, what mattered to Milani as much or more than the plight of the poor were young boys.
“Those words, spoken before thousands, were deliberate,” Chris Jackson wrote in a searing Substack post critical of the Pontiff. “They echoed Francis’ earlier praise of the same man. Leo knew exactly what he was saying. He was canonizing corruption.”
“Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967) was no prophet. He was a priest who wrote letters so vile that even his admirers blush to cite them,” noted Jackson, who quoted an obscene letter written by Milani in 1959:
If there is a danger for my soul, it is certainly not that I have loved too little, but that I have loved too much – meaning even to the point of taking them to bed. And then, who will ever be able to love boys to the bone without, in the end, putting it up their backside, if not a teacher who, together with them, also loves God, fears hell, and longs for heaven?
“Those are Milani’s own words, printed by his supporters,” Jackson noted. “They read like the diary of a predator; an unholy mixture of piety and perversion. They reveal a mind that confused affection with lust, sanctity with sickness. Nothing in them speaks of holiness, only of the corruption of innocence dressed up as spiritual sensitivity.”
“This is the man Leo XIV called a prophet,” Jackson said. “Who Francis called a role model for priests! A priest who openly fantasized about sexual acts with boys is now held up as a model of ‘a Church that cares.’ It is obscene. It is the inversion of everything Christ’s Church once stood for.”
“To honor such a figure is desecration,” Jackson declared. “It tells the world that the highest office in the Church no longer distinguishes between wounded sinners seeking redemption and predators who glorify their own depravity.”
Milani’s letters “are evidence of a heart that lusted after the very souls he was ordained to protect,” Jackson said. “That Rome could read them and still drape the word prophet over their author is the truest measure of how far the hierarchy has fallen.”