An explosive new report [Be warned content and images are offensive] published by the Lepanto Institute has confirmed what many faithful Catholics have suspected for a long time: the Vatican’s ongoing alliance with revolutionary political movements is no longer hidden at the margins, but integrated in the Church’s public mission.>Titled Walking Together with Revolutionaries: Pope Leo’s 2025 Meeting with Marxist Popular Movements, the report documents the fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM), held in Rome in October 2025 under the sponsorship of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. What emerges from its hundreds of pages is a shocking, but not surprising, portrait of openly Marxist, pro-abortion, and LGBT activist organizations operating not merely alongside Church officials, but under papal encouragement and ecclesiastical protection.>The report traces the origins of the World Meeting of Popular Movements back to “Pope” Francis, whose famous 2015 appearance beside Bolivian socialist Evo Morales first drew global attention when Morales presented him with the infamous hammer-and-sickle crucifix. According to the Lepanto Institute, however, the deeper scandal was not the crucifix itself, but the nature of the movement “Pope” Francis was helping to legitimize. Since its founding in 2014, the WMPM has gathered socialist and communist organizations from around the world under the banner of “land, housing, and work” — language now repeated enthusiastically by “Pope” Leo XIV himself.

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