A British permanent deacon of the Diocese of Lancaster, England, has spoken out against Pope Leo XIV and his public embrace of migrants expressed during a recent official visit to Lampedusa.
Deacon Nick Donnelly, an advocate of traditional liturgy and orthodox doctrine, took to X and declared
Pope Leo wants us to welcome criminal invaders who are burning down cathedrals and churches across Europe
He never says anything about this almost weekly occurrence
Neither the rape of our girls and women, the murder of our young men nor the destruction of our culture seem to register with him
It’s like he just doesn’t care
The most recent trigger for the messaging appears to be a fire at the Gothic Basilica of Saint-Michael in Bordeaux, supposedly started by “3rd word Immigrants” [sic]. It fits in with the growing sense that the pontiff is naive, if not actively destructive, in the face of mass migration, with the symbolism of the Vatican’s Lampedusa visit inviting comparisons with French Catholic writer Jean Raspail’s dystopian 1973 novel The Camp of the Saints.
