On September 18, 2025, Leo gave a bombshell interview to Crux senior correspondent Elise Ann Allen, excerpts of which were published in her new biography Leo XIV: Citizen of the World, Missionary of the XXI Century. In the conversation, Leo laid out his vision on four flashpoints that have torn at the Church for decades: homosexuality, women’s ordination, synodality, and the liturgy.
What he said was a program. He signaled openness to revisiting women’s ordination, defended Fiducia Supplicans on LGBT blessings, suggested episcopal conferences might gain doctrinal clout, and dismissed the difference between the Traditional Latin Mass and the Novus Ordo as a matter of attitude. Most chillingly, he floated the possibility that Church doctrine on marriage and sexuality could change once “attitudes” have been softened first.
Trad Inc’s “wait and see” is over. That posture is now clear complicity.
Here is the most chilling line of Leo’s interview, spoken in direct response to a question about changing Catholic teaching on homosexuality:
“We have to change attitudes before we even think about changing what the Church says about any given question.”
Let the weight of that sink in. When pressed about whether the Church might one day alter her moral doctrine on sodomy, fornication, and so-called same-sex “marriage,” Leo’s answer was not a clear and binding no. It was a roadmap: first shift the mindset, then shift the magisterium.
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