In May 2025, reports spread on social networks that at one of the events a new pontiff, seeing the LGBT flag, allegedly turned away and bypassed it. We checked the reliability of such statements.
On May 13, Telegram channels began to actively discuss the video with the participation of Pope Leo XIV: passing by the crowd of people who gathered to greet him, the Primate of the Catholic Church allegedly defiantly turned away from the rainbow flag of LGBT. Many commentators regarded This act as a sign of the Vatican return to conservative values and abandoning the progressive reforms of the past of the pope. “This inspires some hope that Robert is extensively (the worldly name of the pope. - Approx. Ed.) - a greater traditionalist than his predecessor Francis. And that there will be no further movement of the Catholic world towards Quir-Clira and the blessing of multi-agent polygonal unions. However, there are no guarantees, ”commented the video in the channel"Redacted P6 (Cotted #6)"(442,000 views at the time of publication). Also, they shared a video with similar signatures "Solovyov"(240,000 views),"Uncle Glory"(194,000), Voblya (120,000), "Ostashko! Important"(96 000) and others.
Pope Francis, who died in April 2025, was considered defender Rights of LGBT community: he allowed (with reservations) priests to bless the same -sex couples for marriage, approved The participation of representatives of LGBT in church rites, and at the beginning of 2025 officially allowed Open gays take dignity. Pontiff was constantly subjected to his liberal views Criticismincluding from the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian conservative Media.
Когда конклав избрал папой Роберта Превоста, в прессе начали speculate, whether he will continue the liberal reforms begun by his predecessor, or will take a course for their adjustment. Even before his election, extensively made several statements in which condemned The “homosexual way of life” and same -sex marriages, calling them a contradiction to the Gospel. And after the start of his pontificate, at his first meeting with the diplomatic corps of the Vatican, Leo XIV again declaredthat the family is based on a alliance between a man and a woman.
Viral video - a fragment of a video published on May 12 on YouTube channel Vatican News, the official media of the holy throne. On that day, Leo XIV conducted an audience with media representatives from all over the world: he turned to them with a speech and read out a prayer, and then came to greet the journalists and the believers who were waiting for him.
In the video, it is noticeable that the flag held by one of the participants in the meeting differs from the LGBT move symbol. Firstly, on classic LGBT flag six lanes (red, then orange, yellow, green, blue and purple), and seven on the flag from the viral roller (purple, then blue, blue, green, yellow, orange and red). Secondly, it has a large white inscription “Pace”, which means “Mir” in Italian. For the first time such a flag Used In 1961, on the march of the world in the Italian province of Peruja, and his colors were inspired by a similar rainbow symbol from a demonstration against nuclear weapons, which took place three years earlier in the UK. Since then, the Pace flag has become an emblem of pacifist movements and has been widely used in Italy and some other countries. Although it looks like a LGBT move flag, these two symbols are in no way connected.
In addition, from a full video, it is difficult to draw an unequivocal conclusion that Leo XIV specially turned away from the flag. The pontiff walked along the aisle and greeted people on both sides, turning to one or the other. Some believers tried to attract his attention with different flags (for example, Flags of Peru, Bolivia and Poland also got into the frame), but not everyone succeeded. So it is unlikely that dad deliberately ignored the believer with the flag of Pace.
Thus, the news that Leo XIV intentionally turned away from the LGBT Flag and thereby “announced” the policies of the Vatican in this area is not true. The video captures the flag of the world common in Italy, and not the LGBT symbol. In addition, in this action, the pontiff, most likely, was not an evil intent - at that moment the Pope greeted the believers on the other side of himself.
Photo on the cover: Vatican News
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