Pope Leo XIV has appointed advisers to the Vatican’s religious life dicastery who have supported women’s ordination and LGBT advocacy. Frank Wright argues these appointments are not isolated controversies; they reflect a broader effort to substitute contemporary liberal political ideology for Catholic doctrine.
Drawing on philosopher Michael Polanyi’s concept of “moral inversion,” he explains that when Christianity and objective morality are removed from society, man’s religious impulses do not disappear; they become attached to political causes. LGBTQ ideology, open borders, and net zero environmentalism take on the characteristics of religious belief. Disagreement is treated not as political difference, but as a moral or even personal offense.
