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His diary celebrates “blessed nudism,” recounts sleeping naked beside adolescents, and normalizes sexualized touching as “natural curiosity” — yet Leo still advances his cause.
Venerable by decree, scandal by his own pen
On 22 May 2025, Leo XIV authorized the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints to promulgate a decree recognizing the “offering of life” of Alejandro Labaka Ugarte, Capuchin, Apostolic Vicar of Aguarico, killed in Ecuador in 1987. That authorization is exactly what moves a cause forward in the Church’s official machinery, placing the man on the track that ends, in the public mind, with altars, liturgical cult, and imitation.
Now comes the part that makes the stomach turn. On 12 February 2026, InfoVaticana published lengthy excerpts attributed to Labaka’s own writings describing his missionary “method” among the Huaorani, including passages praising “blessed nudism,” recounting his own nudity with them, framing their state as “Paradise before sin,” and narrating episodes of explicitly sexualized behavior involving adolescents that he claims to have endured with “naturalness.”
This is not hostile gossip from enemies, but the man describing himself.
“Blessed nudism” and the anti catechism of inculturation
Continued below.
Leo XIV Approves Beatification Process for Bishop who Allowed Indigenous Youths to Touch his Private Parts
His diary celebrates “blessed nudism,” recounts sleeping naked beside adolescents, and normalizes sexualized touching as “natural curiosity” — yet Leo still advances his cause.
bigmodernism.substack.com
Anyone heard of this? I don’t understand why this would be overlooked.
