The report published on May 12 by the Lepanto Institute on the Vatican-sponsored World Meeting of Popular Movements is one of the most damning indictments on the post-conciliar Synodal Church to have emerged in recent years.
Entitled Walking Together with Revolutionaries: Pope Leo’s 2025 Meeting with Marxist Popular Movements, the report documents the Vatican’s ever-blossoming relationship with organizations that openly embrace socialism, communism, abortion activism, and LGBT ideology.
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Its detailed analysis paints a stark account of the Vatican’s institutional and spiritual collapse. Here are the ten most disturbing revelations:
1. Leo XIV publicly declared: ‘I am with you’ to groups whose ideologies are denounced by Catholic teaching and Scripture
Perhaps the most scandalous moment in the entire report is Pope Leo’s address to the assembled activist movements. Speaking directly to groups identified throughout the report as Marxist and revolutionary, the Pope declared: “I am here. I am with you!”
This was not a diplomatic courtesy toward secular leaders, but an explicit affirmation delivered to organizations that openly promote socialist revolution and leftist agitation.
2. The Vatican continues promoting the socialist slogan ‘land, housing, and work‘
The phrase “land, housing and work” appears repeatedly throughout the World Meeting of Popular Movements and has effectively become its ideological motto. Prevost described these as, “sacred rights.”
Observers will have noticed that this very slogan has made regular appearances in Prevost’s addresses in one shape or another.
The problem is not concern for the poor — which has always belonged to Catholic teaching — but the fact remains that this slogan originates from movements rooted in Marxist class struggle ideology rather than Catholic social doctrine.
3. A Vatican event was hosted at an openly Marxist social center
The 2025 meeting was hosted at Spin Time Labs in Rome, described in the report as an openly Marxist and “transfeminist” occupied social center.
According to the Lepanto Institute, the venue has hosted communist political events, abortion activism, queer festivals, and vulgar performances involving public nudity. Yet “Pope” Leo praised the venue directly, saying participants had walked “from a social center — Spin Time — to the Vatican.”
The symbolism is impossible to ignore.
4. The Vatican welcomed Brazil’s revolutionary MST Movement
One of the principal organizations present was Brazil’s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST), a revolutionary land movement with explicit socialist commitments.
The report quotes MST leader Ayala Ferreira stating, “we are not ashamed to affirm socialism.”
The organization has celebrated Karl Marx, promoted revolutionary rhetoric, and openly attacked capitalism as an oppressive system requiring replacement.
5. The same organization aggressively promotes abortion
The report demonstrates that MST is not merely socialist but deeply committed to abortion activism. One statement quoted by Lepanto declares: “The decriminalization of abortion is more than just a feminist issue.”
Another slogan promoted by MST reads: “Legalize abortion, the right to our bodies!”
That such a satanic organization would receive Vatican legitimacy would have been unimaginable under pre-conciliar pontificates.
6. LGBT ideology is fully embedded in these movements
The report also documents MST’s involvement in transgender and LGBT activism. The organization celebrated “Trans Day of Visibility” and declared, “If there is sexism and LGBT-phobia, there is no land reform.”
Other groups participating in the World Meeting reportedly promoted homosexual activism and “queer liberation” causes that are blatantly incompatible with Catholic moral teaching.
7. Luca Casarini’s Marxist revolutionary past was conveniently ignored by the Vatican
The report devotes considerable attention to Italian activist Luca Casarini, founder of Mediterranea Saving Humans and a major figure in the movement.
Casarini reportedly participated in radical autonomist politics, declared “war” against the G8 summit in Genoa, and publicly stated that “Karl Marx was right.”
Despite this history, he has enjoyed extraordinary access to the Vatican and even received personal encouragement from the heretic Bergoglio.
8. A pagan image was presented to Leo
One especially disturbing episode occured when MST representatives presented Leo XIV with a tapestry depicting Ossanha, an Afro-Brazilian pagan deity associated with magic and ritual plants.
For the faithful concerned about syncretism and the erosion of the First Commandment, the incident recalled the Pachamama scandal of the Francis pontificate — another moment in which pagan symbolism appeared welcomed inside Catholic settings.
9. Local Church structures are being integrated into these movements
The report cites Vatican press materials stating that diocesan representatives and Justice and Peace commissions accompanied the activist delegations.
This is perhaps the most dangerous development of all because it suggests these revolutionary movements are no longer external pressure groups but are being woven directly into the Church’s institutional life through the language of “synodality” and “accompaniment.”
10. The report warns Marxism is being spread inside Catholic communities
The report’s final conclusion is devastating. While carefully avoiding the accusation that “Pope” Leo XIV himself is a communist, the Lepanto Institute argues that the World Meeting of Popular Movements functions as a vehicle for ideological infiltration.
Its warning is stark and succinctly summarizes the tragic state of affairs in the Synodal Church: “The World Meeting of Popular Movements … is designed specifically for the spread of Marxist ideologies within local Catholic communities.”
All considered, this report confirms what many awake Catholics have long known: the crisis in the Church is no longer confined to doctrinal ambiguity or liturgical abuse. A deeper ideological transformation is underway — one in which revolutionary political movements are increasingly treated as allies while traditional Catholics are marginalized as obstacles to the new “synodal” Church.
The tragedy is that the Catholic Church spent more than a century condemning socialism and communism as fundamentally incompatible with Christianity. Popes warned repeatedly that Marxism would destroy religion, family life, private property, and social order. Millions of Catholics suffered persecution and martyrdom under communist regimes throughout the twentieth century.
Yet today, according to the evidence assembled by the Lepanto Institute, organizations openly celebrating those same ideologies are being welcomed into the Vatican itself, and the false church, masquerading as the Catholic Church, is actively promoting these devilish errors.
Just when we thought the Synodal Church can’t drift any further from redemption, they prove us wrong.
