Sexual Abuse
In other words, flowing with the spirit of the age mattered to Milani. This is what he held ‘close to his heart.’ While Don Lorenzo Milani is seen as a ’Don Bosco’ figure who loved the youth he in reality was quite the opposite. He denounced private property as a form of theft and pushed the Marxist idea of “distribution of wealth,” which was a scandal to the youth. Not to mention that he abused the youth.
During his tenure, Francis said Don Lorenzo Milani (1923-1967) should be upheld as a model for a ‘church that cares,’ but the problem is that Milani had a history of seducing young boys in bed. According to author Chris Jackson, Milani was no prophet but “was a priest who wrote letters so vile that even his admirers blush to cite them.”
And while Milani has a reputation of having loved the poor, his “love” served to cover his sexual predation. In an attempt to promote Don Lorenzo Milani, his own devotees quote him as saying:
“If there is a danger for my soul, it is certainly not that I have loved too little, but that I have loved too much – meaning even to the point of taking them to bed. And then, who will ever be able to love boys to the bone without, in the end, putting it up their xxxxxx?”
This is the man Leo XIV calls a prophet and who Francis called a role model for priests. A priest who openly fantasized about sexual acts with boys is now upheld as a model for the clergy to imitate.
According to Chris Jackson, Milani’s letters “are evidence of a heart that lusted after the very souls he was ordained to protect.” That Rome could read them with approval testifies to the diabolical depths to which the Catholic hierarchy has fallen.
We can be sure that all the popes prior to Francis stand against Milani for what he did to the young, so why did Francis not disavow him? And what about Leo? Using the Chair of Peter to heap praise on an LGBTQ offender serves to ‘canonize’ homosexuality before the Church.