Homophobic on the outside, homophile on the inside. This led to a dangerous double standard, a culture of silence, which had very unhappily promoted the scandals around the Catholic Church.LGBTQ cross carried into St. Peter’s Basilica.

Have We Been Gaslighted?

Have we been gaslighted during the August 25th Angelus?

 Apostasy has not only crept in—it has stepped boldly into the open. What was once unthinkable has now unfolded before the eyes of the world: an LGBTQ cross carried into St. Peter’s Basilica.

For many, this moment of openly practising gays in St Peter’s Basilica felt like a lightning strike: sudden, jarring, and surreal. Was this a symbolic gesture of inclusivity or a deliberate challenge to centuries of tradition? Was it a simple act of solidarity or the unveiling of a new chapter in Church history?

Apostasy in Broad Daylight

The term “apostasy” has long conjured images of subtle compromise, of faith diluted by modern pressures. But this—this is different.

Here, we are confronted with a direct collision between the Church’s sacred scripture and the cultural movements of our time. It is no longer hidden in ambiguous statements or quiet shifts of tone. It is bold. Visible. Public.

A Storm at the Gates of St. Peter’s

To many observers, the imagery of an LGBTQ cross entering the Vatican felt like a storm breaking through the very gates of the faith’s most hallowed ground. Is this an organic evolution of the Church’s pastoral mission?

 Or is it a surrender to the prevailing winds of cultural ideology?

There are those who celebrate this as a “historic day in the Vatican,” a moment of long-awaited recognition by LGBTQ. And yet, others recoil in shock, wondering if this marks a turning point, not toward renewal, but toward rupture.

A Historic Day—or a Point of No Return?

History books may one day remember this as a watershed moment.

 Perhaps it will be seen as the day the Church openly embraced cultural currents it once resisted.

Or, perhaps, it will be remembered as the day the faithful realised how far the ground beneath them had shifted into Apostasy.

Will Pope Leo 14th be known as the Apostate Pope?

Whatever one’s interpretation, the fact remains: the Vatican has witnessed a public act that blurs the lines between tradition and revolution, faith and ideology, orthodoxy and apostasy.

There Are No Words

So, we are left grappling with questions that defy easy answers. Has the Vatican signalled a new chapter of radical openness? Or has it conceded to the very forces it once warned against?

Have we been slowly prepared for this moment, softened up to accept what once would have been impossible to imagine?

Truly, there are no words. Only the uneasy awareness that something profound has shifted within the heart of the Catholic Church.