In the Sicilian and American Mafia, a made man is a fully initiated member of the Mafia.
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 Prevost 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?”
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