The Left is good at optics. The trads are not. The progressives—much more at home in the political than the spiritual—are excellent at spin and presentation.
In fact, political manipulation is a high art on the Left. So it should have come as no surprise that the most notorious of all the LGBTQ+ advocates, Fr James Martin, would set out to achieve the important and highly effective goal of obtaining from the new papacy of Pope Leo an optical imprimatur that would terrify conservative Catholic. Using his many connections inside the Vatican, where he had already secured audiences with Pope Francis, he gained an interview with Pope Leo a few days ago, on 1 September.
