Leo XIV's new Archbishop of New York, Monsignor Ronald Hicks, 58, had a homosexual chancellor in his former Diocese of Joliet, reports ComplicitClergy.com.
Monsignor Hicks was installed as Bishop of Joliet, Illinois, in September 2020. In late April 2021, Bishop Hicks employed a certain David Salvato as his new Chancellor for the Diocese of Joliet.
On December 13, 2025, Salvato “married” his homosexual associate in Naperville, Illinois.
Leo XIV appointed Monsignor Hicks as Archbishop of New York on December 18.
Church career of the homosexual chancellor
Homosexual Salvato had served from 2011 to 2021 as a canon lawyer for the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He led teams handling nearly 200 marriage annulment cases annually.
Furthermore, he has taught at St. John’s Seminary, worked as an English translator for the Vatican newspaper 'L’Osservatore Romano', and directed marriage and family life programs in Colorado.
Salvato holds a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome (Angelicum), along with degrees in theology, philosophy, and communications.
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