Pope Leo XIV appointed a synodality enthusiast who accepts as “open questions” the possibilities of Holy Communion for unrepented active homosexuals and the “ordination” of women to the diaconate.
The Vatican announcement was issued Monday that Bishop Pedro Luis Fuentes Valencia, C.P., was named Military Ordinary for Bolivia, ending four years in which the Passionist prelate had governed the same jurisdiction only as apostolic administrator while remaining auxiliary bishop of La Paz.
The Holy See Press Office identified him as titular bishop of Temuniana and noted that he had represented the Bolivian Episcopal Conference at the Synod of Bishops in Rome in 2023 and 2024.
Reporting from the Paul VI Hall in October 2023, the Bolivian bishops’ conference quoted him describing the opening retreat with discussion themes including “losing fear, (and) having the courage to make a different Church.”
At a June 2024 workshop, Fuentes claimed that the novel synodality process somehow played a part in the very identity of the Church. “We are speaking of the nature and mission of the Church: all the baptized walking together in the proclamation of the Gospel.”
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