Leo XIV Stuffed Media Dicastery with 🌈 Personnel

Leo XIV Stuffed Media Dicastery with Personnel

On April 9, 2026, the Holy See Press Office announced that Pope Leo XIV appointed the listed figures as members of the Dicastery for Communication:

Curia Cardinal Luis Tagle, 68, Philippines

He is considered emotionally instable and holds pro-homosexual views: “The harsh words that were used in the past to refer to homosexuals and divorced and separated people, the unwed mothers, et cetera, in the past they were quite severe,” Tagle told a Catholic youth conference in London in 2015.

In 2017, he led a social media initiative in the Philippines called the Lazarus Project, to call for homosexual acceptance in churches. In 2019, he called on Catholic youth to stop discriminating against homosexual people.

Furthermore, Cardinal Tagle believes that there is no all-encompassing answer to adultery: “Every situation for those who are divorced and remarried is quite unique. To have a general rule might be counterproductive in the end.”

Cristóbal López Romero, 72, of Rabat, Morocco

Spanish born Cardinal Romero has a strong focus on reaching out to marginalised groups – and is passionate about advocating for more interreligious dialogue between Christians and Muslims: “No religion can appropriate the truth, as if it were its sole owner,” he said in October 2025.

After ‚Fiducia supplicans‘ (2021), Cardinal Romero distanced himself from the African bishops.

The bishops of North Africa under his regional leadership endorsed "blessings" in irregular situations.

Cardinal Filipe Neri Ferrão, 73, of Goa and Daman, India

The cardinal’s interreligious stances provoked controversy in 2021 when he encouraged his clergy to visit idols of Ganesha, a prominent elephant-headed deity within Hinduism, during Ganesh Chaturthi. The festival celebrates the deity’s birth.

A petition was drawn up criticizing the cardinal for “witnessing to radical religious relativism which puts the living Jesus on a par with a clay Ganesh.” The cardinal responded by saying the criticism went against the “authentic spirit” of interreligious dialogue and reciprocal respect.

Curia Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, 60, Portugal

He consistently uses the language of inclusion, hospitality, fraternity, and anti-exclusion: “Homosexuals… need to find in the Church a space for listening, welcoming and mercy.”

Furthermore, he praised the idea of a Christianity “free” of past and present dogmatic ties and of “rigid and codified rules” in his introduction to a book by pro-abortion Sister Teresa Forcades.

Rorate-caeli.blogspot.com wrote in August 2018 that he is known, by the hierarchy and informed laity of Portugal, as a promiscuous practicing homosexual.

Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, 66, of Kinshasa, Congo

He is a kind of fig leaf in the list. As African, where homosexuals acts are in many countries punished as crime, Cardinal Ambongo led the African rejection of the document ‘Fiducia supplicans’.

In the context of the Synod, he accepted a new way of being Church. He said that the Synod is about “a new way of being Church” and “something needs to change in its way of being.” (October 2023).

“I believe that the notion of synodality, this new way of being Church, will be an achievement for us” (October 2024).

“The Synod talks about the changes needed in the Church—we must change how we are Church” (June 2025).

Curia Archbishop Rino Fisichella, 74, Italy

In 2009, Archbishop Fisichella defended the abortion of a 9-year-old girl pregnant with twins after rape. The local bishop said those involved, who performed the abortion, incurred excommunication. But Archbishop Fisichella defended the abortionists and criticized the Church's response: “There are others who deserve excommunication… not those who permitted the girl to live.”

Regarding pro-abortion politician and then Premier Minister Romano Prodi, Monsignor Fisichella said in 2006, he “did not see a reason” to deny Communion. Prodi had publicly supported legal abortion framework in Italy.

Archbishop Ryan P. Jimenez, 54, of of Agaña, Guam

Already his Wikipedia article reveals that he is a pro-homosexual. At the Jesuits’ led Fordham University, he spoke about learning to accompany “diverse communities, both the LGBT community and migrants… who feel unwelcome.”

Bishop Bernardin Francis Mfumbusa, 64, of Kondoa, Tanzania

In March 2026, he said about Francis’ synod that bishops “hold the keys to implementation,” and warned, “A manual on a shelf does not form a synodal Church.” On the final document of the Synod he said: "This was not a document written about the People of God; the People of God wrote it."

On immigrants, he pushed Catholic journalists in March 2025 to use language that “recognizes the humanity of migrants,” and to portray them “in a better” light.

Peruvian Auxiliary Bishop Lizardo Estrada Herrera, O.S.A., 52

Two weeks ago, Leo XIV appointed him already as member of the Dicastery for Human Development.

Monsignor Estrada is the General Secretary of CELAM, the Latin American Bishops’ Council. In July 2024, he referred to migrants as “suffering Christs”.

He also stated that it is incoherent to receive Holy Communion while refusing to recognise Christ in migrants: “You can’t kneel in front of the Eucharist… and not also see that same God in the migrant.”

He was chosen as a Synod delegate and is closely associated with the Latin American episcopal current shaped by synodality, social doctrine, Amazon, and the pastoral language of the Francis era.

Bishop Marcelino Antonio Maralit, 56, of San Pablo, Philippines

He was chosen because he is the president of the Office of Social Communications of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conference

Father Roberto Pasolini, O.F.M. Cap., 54, Preacher of the Papal Household

In 2024, Fr Pasolini became worldfamous for a perverted lecture on how the Bible includes positive examples of homosexual relationships.

He considered the stories of Jonathan and David and the Roman centurion and his servant as homosexuals: “Surely there were stories of homosexual love at the time, this is evident, so nothing prevents us from being able to think it, from being able to imagine it.”

He asked what it would mean if Jesus gave the “greatest praise” to someone in such a relationship.

Helen Osman

She is the President of SIGNIS. This body is the unknown Vatican’s umbrella association for media professionals worldwide especially for the global south. Before becoming president of SIGNIS, she served as communications director for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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