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From Sister Caram to Father Martin: How Leo XIV Is Carrying Forward Francis’ “Open Doors” Revolution

Chris Jackson via Hiraeth in Exile | Sep 01, 2025

The Caram Audience: From Francis’ Friend to Leo’s Guest

On August 28, Pope Leo XIV quietly received Sister Lucía Caram, the Argentine Dominican nun best known for her public approval of homosexual “marriage.” Her statement from 2023 still hangs in the air: “I would be in favor of homosexuals getting married in the Church because God always blesses love.” Asked if she would recommend homosexual couples act on their vice, she shrugged: “If they love each other… What do you want me to tell you!”

This is not a slip of the tongue. Caram has built her reputation on pushing boundaries and taunting the Church’s moral law. She even accused Cardinal Fernández of being a practicing homosexual. Yet the Vatican Media cameras clicked as she was ushered into the Apostolic Palace to sit with Leo himself. Curiously, the official Holy See bulletin omitted the audience. Why? Because Rome knows the optics: Sister Caram is poison to Catholic teaching, but medicine to the world’s progressive press.


The James Martin Embrace

Three days later, on September 1, Leo met with Father James Martin, the Jesuit celebrity priest who has made LGBT advocacy the heart of his ministry. Martin himself shared the moment on social media, basking in the glow of papal favor.

Notice his words: “I heard the same message from Pope Leo that I heard from Pope Francis about welcoming LGBTQ people.” No accident here. This was stage-managed continuity. Francis gave Martin legitimacy; Leo gives him legacy.

Reuters described the meeting as “a possible sign the new pontiff will continue Francis’ LGBT-inclusive legacy.” No, there’s nothing “possible” about it. This is deliberate. The Vatican has even placed an LGBT event on the official Jubilee calendar. In Rome, the rainbow has become the new coat of arms.


Timing Is Everything

The most obscene part? This meeting with Martin happened while photos of child victims from Minneapolis were ricocheting across the internet; images of Catholic children slain at a school Mass. And what was the Vatican’s headline that day? Not mourning the innocent. Not fasting or weeping. No: the pope with James Martin, smiling in the Apostolic Palace, assuring the world that the Francis agenda is safe in his hands.

The Angelus of Openness

Leo’s August 31 Angelus sealed the pattern. He preached on humility and taking the last place, but his application was horizontal, not supernatural. The Church is now to be a “home where all are welcome,” a table of encounter where rivalries are set aside. But notice what’s missing: sin, repentance, conversion. The message is pure human fraternity, Gospel emptied of its sting.

Even when speaking of war in Ukraine or the tragic Minnesota Mass shooting, Leo’s solution was not Christ the King, not penance, not consecration. It was the tired slogans of peace treaties, weapon bans, and dialogue. In other words, politics dressed in piety.


Speeches Without Salt

September 1 was a busy day for Leo. He addressed the Opera San Francesco for the Poor, reminding them of “assist, welcome, promote,” a Franciscan NGO triad that sounds more like a social worker’s pamphlet than a call to sanctity. He preached to the Augustinians about listening, humility, and unity. All good words, but all strangely hollow when detached from Catholic truth.

Meanwhile, his Latin letter to Cardinal Sepe about a Ukrainian anniversary struck the same note: hope, dialogue, fraternity. A papal vocabulary shorn of judgment, punishment, or doctrine: fit for a U.N. envoy, not the Vicar of Christ.


Continuity in the Revolution

If anyone still harbored the fantasy that Leo XIV would reset the Vatican after Francis, the past week has killed the illusion. He is not breaking with his predecessor. He is canonizing him; in practice if not yet in ceremony.

Sister Caram and Father Martin are not accidents on the papal schedule. They are the papal schedule. They are the symbols Rome wants the world to see: the nun who wants sodomy blessed and the Jesuit who mainstreamed it. Together, they reveal a pontificate bent on taking Francis’ halfway revolution and marching it all the way to the rainbow altar.


Conclusion: The Smoke Gets Thicker

From Angelus balcony to apostolic palace, from Caram’s sly smiles to Martin’s triumphal tweets, the picture is clear. The papacy has become a platform for the world’s sexual revolutionaries. Leo XIV is not correcting Francis. He is perfecting him.

And the faithful? They are left once more to pray, suffer, and cling to the unchanging Faith that cannot be photographed, scheduled, or co-opted by Vatican Media.