In another sign of the erosion of the Catholic church’s leadership, Pope Leo XIV has promoted a pro-LGBTQ, anti-church priest to Bishop. Father Mario Leon Dorado has been outspoken in his support to “bless” “irregular” couples (meaning homosexuals), as well as calling on the church to fade away the way John the Baptist did when Christ was baptized.
He declared in 2022, “There is the ecclesiological challenge: the Church as a sacrament at the service of the Kingdom of God. The Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow, in analogy with the experience of John the Baptist…. The experience of John the Baptist is the experience of the Church.”
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Pope Leo XIV has appointed a new bishop known for his promotion of religious indifferentism and the LGBT agenda to a Moroccan diocese.
On September 12, Pope Leo XIV appointed Father Mario León Dorado, OMI, as coadjutor archbishop of the Archdiocese of Rabat, Morocco. During his years as a missionary, Dorado became known for promoting some of Pope Francis’ most contentious agendas, including the religious indifferentism embodied in the Abu Dhabi Declaration regarding Islam, and the “blessing” of “irregular” couples, as authorized under Fiducia Supplicans. Dorado served as apostolic prefect of Western Sahara since 2013 and as apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Rabat since 2026.
“There is the ecclesiological challenge: the Church as a sacrament at the service of the Kingdom of God. The Church is called to disappear so that the Kingdom may grow, in analogy with the experience of John the Baptist…. The experience of John the Baptist is the experience of the Church,” Dorado stated.
Writing in the September 2022 issue of Migraciones, the magazine of the Spanish Bishops’ Conference’s Migration Department, Dorado lamented what he saw as resistance to Pope Francis’ vision of universal fraternity in both Muslim North Africa and the West’s “old Christian societies.”
“I am struck by the strong resistance to the universal fraternity proposed by Pope Francis in the name of the Gospel,” he wrote. “Why is there so much resistance to universal fraternity?” Reflecting on his experience as a missionary among a very small Catholic community, Dorado said love is the acceptance of another person without a “need to change” him.