Pope Leo XIV confirmed his intent to include LGBTQ parishioners within the Catholic Church ahead of their planned Holy Year pilgrimage to Vatican City.
This is a very complicated question but essentially he didn’t change anything, really. He’s just saying that the stuff Francis did will stay, and what Francis did was only “progressive” when viewed through the lens of a nearly 2000 year old institution whose views haven’t really changed much in that time. The current stance of the Catholic Church on homosexuality that was developed under Francis is pretty much that they’re willing to look past some things that they consider to be sins in order to keep the church together. A lot of care and thought goes into crafting official papal decrees (which are written on very precise technical language, essentially Catholic legalese) to ensure that they align with already established doctrine. If a Pope just said “BTW we’re totally cool with homosexuality now” he would be deposed somehow and his decrees deemed invalid for breaking with established doctrine
This is a very complicated question but essentially he didn’t change anything, really. He’s just saying that the stuff Francis did will stay, and what Francis did was only “progressive” when viewed through the lens of a nearly 2000 year old institution whose views haven’t really changed much in that time. The current stance of the Catholic Church on homosexuality that was developed under Francis is pretty much that they’re willing to look past some things that they consider to be sins in order to keep the church together. A lot of care and thought goes into crafting official papal decrees (which are written on very precise technical language, essentially Catholic legalese) to ensure that they align with already established doctrine. If a Pope just said “BTW we’re totally cool with homosexuality now” he would be deposed somehow and his decrees deemed invalid for breaking with established doctrine