Anchor Team 250: Marxist Popular Movements and the Papacy

The Lepanto Institute released a comprehensive 144-page investigative report titled Walking Together with Revolutionaries: Pope Leo’s 2025 Meeting with Marxist Popular Movements. The report documents how the fifth World Meeting of Popular Movements (WMPM), held October 21–24, 2025, at the Marxist venue Spin Time Labs in Rome and hosted by the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, served as a platform for openly Marxist, communist, and socialist organizations that promote abortion, gender ideology, and revolutionary politics. The report reveals that Pope Leo XIV personally addressed the gathering, telling participants, “I am here. I am with you,” while praising them as “social poets” and “champions of humanity.” It further shows how this fifth meeting, for the first time, included mandated delegates from local churches from around the world to accompany the openly professed communist participants. In this episode, we'll go over the details of the report and the implications this has for Holy Mother Church.