Same sex "marriage" has swept the country by storm. The recent Constitutional amendment passed in Virginia gives it the full protection of the state. But, in reality, all 50 states allow it. Marriage these days has little meaning. We don't allow polygamy....yet, but there have been cases challenging its illegality. In view of the massive collapse in morality, what can we see coming down the pike?
In April 2026 Pope Leo visited Cameroon, his first apostolic trip to Africa. According to InfoVaticana:
The episode took place during the Peace Encounter held at St. Joseph of Bamenda, where the traditional chief of Mankon, Fon Fru Asaah Angwafor IV, intervened. In his speech, the tribal leader thanked that, within the framework of the Synod of 2023 and 2024, African bishops were tasked with a study on polygamy and its fit in the life of the Church....
In March, the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) published the final report on the pastoral challenge of polygamy, in which the traditional teaching is reaffirmed.
The document states that polygamous catechumens cannot receive baptism without previously committing to monogamy. This is not an arbitrary disciplinary measure, but a direct consequence of the nature of Christian marriage.
The bishops insist that this approach does not seek to exclude, but to accompany with patience and respect, without renouncing the truth. Mercy, they emphasize, cannot be detached from conversion.
Well, so far so good. May all our bishops defend marriage! Chris Jackson from Hiraeth in Exile wrote this about the event:
The most revolting story in the bunch may have been the report from Bamenda, Cameroon. During an interreligious peace meeting inside the cathedral, a tribal leader who presides over pagan rites and ancestral ceremonies spoke of polygamy as one of the cultural practices that continue to pose challenges. He then expressed gratitude that African bishops had been tasked, in connection with the recent synodal process, with studying polygamy and its place in the life of the Church. He argued that people in polygamous relationships should be fully integrated into the Church without being judged or rejected. Leo remained silent. Some of the faithful booed.
There, in miniature, stands the whole postconciliar disaster.
A Catholic cathedral becomes a stage for the public airing of demands that the Church grow softer toward an arrangement directly contrary to the natural law and to Christian marriage. A tribal ruler linked to pagan ceremonial life is treated as a voice to be heard with deference. The vocabulary of “challenge” replaces the vocabulary of sin and disorder. The machinery of synodality hangs in the background like a waiting solvent, ready to dissolve whatever still has shape. And the pope says nothing.
His silence was the loudest line in the report.
This is how the revolution advances now. Not always through bold declarations. Often through non-correction, the absence of a rebuke, or the calm refusal to draw a line. Through the creation of an atmosphere in which the unthinkable becomes discussable, the discussable becomes pastorally understandable, and the understandable becomes practically normalized.
Can you imagine St. Charles Lwanga and his fellow martyrs being silent in such a situation? Or Archbishop Lefebvre who spent so much of his life building up the Church in Africa?Was the pope caught off guard? Perhaps he was. Does that justify his silence? I recently read an article by someone who described Leo as the "pope with the Mona Lisa smile." Is that what need during this crisis in the Church? Or do we need courageous bishops who challenge the prince of this world when intrinsic evils are defended in, of all places, our Catholic churches?
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