{"id":10127,"date":"2026-02-20T03:25:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T14:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T04:27:21","slug":"pope-leo-approved-beatification-process-for-bishop-who-let-indigenous-children-touch-his-genitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnznews.com\/?p=10127","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo approved beatification process for bishop who let indigenous children touch his genitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Story by Emily Mangiaracina\/ Life Site News<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 A \u201cmissionary\u201d bishop made \u201cVenerable\u201d and green-lighted for the beatification process by Pope Leo XIV allowed indigenous youth to touch his genitals and shared a bed naked with a youth who had previously made \u201cprovocative homosexual attempts,\u201d recently published reports show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In May 2025, Leo declared Msgr. Alejandro Labaka \u201cVenerable\u201d along with Sr. In\u00e9s Arango Vel\u00e1squez, with whom he worked. InfoCatolica recently highlighted concerning passages in Labaka\u2019s autobiographical writings in which the bishop recounted his observations of disordered sexual practices of the Huaorani people in the Amazon. Of particular concern is one time when he admittedly allowed the indigenous youth to arouse him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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He recounted in the Huaorani Chronicle<\/em>, according to InfoCat\u00f3lica:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The young people were more playful than ever, abound in words and signs that figured the union of sexes, allowing touches on the genitals. This time they especially bothered me, until confirming with uproar that male reactions are identical between us and the Huaorani. In any case, they did not insist either with me or among themselves in a way that pollution occurred. I tried not to make any drama and made an effort to act with naturalness, laugh with them and dissuade them from the game (CH, 146).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

This incident was facilitated by the fact Labaka habitually lived nude with the Huaorani, in order to \u201cadapt\u201d to their culture. As he explained in the Huaorani Chronicle<\/em>, \u201cThey lived naked and I too was often naked like them.\u201d Instead of approaching their nudism from the point of view of Catholic teaching, which understands clothing to be a necessary safeguard following original sin, Labaka claimed that the Huaorani did not need clothes in their \u201cnatural morality.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBlessed nudism of the Huaorani, who do not need cloths to safeguard their norms of natural morality!\u201d Labaka wrote. \u201cGod has wanted to preserve in this people the way of life, the natural morality as in Paradise before sin,\u201d he claimed, even going so far as to call<\/a> the Huaorani\u2019s culture as one of \u201cextraordinary sexual maturity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This claim that the Huaorani did \u201cnot need\u201d clothing and lived a \u201cmorality as in Paradise before sin\u201d is at odds with Labaka\u2019s description of the youth\u2019s regular, disordered sexual experimentation. He recalled in the Huaorani Chronicle<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I observed the ease, or rather the almost generalized practice as something ritual, of getting excited among males frequently \u2026 in addition to other homosexual-looking games in their long family gatherings \u2026 Starting from their reality required me to bathe with them or like them, or in the sight of young people and children, with complete naturalness; intentionally performing the full grooming of an adult male; allowing to satisfy the natural curiosity to touch and see in what they see us different.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Labaka also admitted to \u201clying down naked\u201d in bed with a youth who he said had previously made homosexual advances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cPeigo (a young Huaorani) stayed, apparently, without a hammock and approached my bed. On previous days I had rejected him, for I feared him because of his gestures and provocative homosexual attempts. This time I had another understanding of \u2018accept everything, except sin\u2019 and I shared the bed lying down naked under the same mosquito net,\u201d wrote the bishop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Father Dave Nix ripped Labaka for allowing the youth to touch his genitals in a repost of Chris Jackson\u2019s commentary on Pope Leo\u2019s elevation of Labaka via the canonization process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnytime there is genital contact between an adult and a child, the adult is ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS the predator, even if he acts coy like this pervert,\u201d Nix wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jackson observed, \u201cThe duty to avoid scandal does not dissolve because a culture has different customs. A missionary can learn a language, eat what is set before him, sleep in a hut, accept poverty, accept danger, accept martyrdom. He does not get to sanctify conditions that predictably invite sexual sin, especially in the presence of the young.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe conduct described is egregiously disordered and scandalous. The very telling of it, written as though the \u2018difficulty\u2019 is maintaining composure while being touched, reveals the rot \u2026 Saints do not flirt with fire and call the smoke \u2018inculturation.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These autobiographical writings alone call into question whether Labaka\u2019s work in the Amazon can be described as \u201cmissionary\u201d and evangelistic in purpose. InfoCat\u00f3lica reported that he did not in fact seek to evangelize, but in his own words, \u201cto receive from them all the \u2018seeds of the Word\u2019 hidden in his real life and in his culture, where the unknown God lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Labaka was murdered along with Sr. Vel\u00e1squez by natives of the Ecuadorian Amazon in 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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