Leo XIV Promotes African Bishop Who Thanked Francis for "Updating the Gospel"

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Leo XIV Promotes African Bishop Who Thanked Francis for "Updating the Gospel"

Pope Leo XIV has appointed on October 22 Bishop Alexis Touabli Youlo, 65, as Bishop of the Diocese of San Pedro-en-Côte-d’Ivoire, Ivory Coast.

Bishop Youlo was ordained a priest in 1987. In October 2006, he was appointed the first Bishop of the new diocese of Agboville.

He has served as President of the Episcopal Conference of Côte d’Ivoire and since May 2022 as President of the Regional Episcopal Conference of West Africa (RECOWA) which comprises 154 Catholic Dioceses spread across 11 Catholic Bishops’ Conferences in 16 countries of anglophone and francophone Africa.

As President, Monsignor Youlo has repeatedly pushed synodality (“walking together”) and social priorities.

At an assembly he led in Dakar in May 2025, he placed “justice and peace” and “a synodal Church in West Africa” at the heart of the meeting.

In recent years, he repeatedly organised inter-faith prayers (pictured left) and interreligious events for peace.

In November 2022, he took part in civil clothes in the 26th edition of National Peace Day in Agboville (pictured right).

In a May 5, 2022 interview with AciAfrica.org, Bishop Youlo said, “We thank God for inspiring Pope Francis to write Fratelli Tutti. I think this document is an updated version of the Gospel.”

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Tisbe GalaadOct 23

Galatians 1, 6-10
"I am astonished at the promptness with which you have turned away from
the One who called you and have decided to follow a different version of the
Good News. Not that there can be more than one Good News; it is merely that
some troublemakers among you want to change the Good News of Christ;
and let me warn you that if anyone preaches a version of the Good News different from the one we have already preached to you, whether it be ourselves or an angel from heaven, he is to be condemned. I am only repeating what we told you before: if anyone preaches a version of the Good News different from the one you have already heard, he is to be condemned."

tbswvOct 23

update the gospel??? what the heck is he talking about?

OrthocatOct 23

So much for the common misconception that Catholics in Africa "will save the Church" from decadent Western values.

la verdad prevaleceOct 22

2 John 9-11
New Catholic Bible
9 Anyone who fails to remain faithful to the teaching of Christ but goes beyond[a] it does not have God. Only the one who remains faithful to the teaching possesses both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not impart this teaching, do not receive him into your house or welcome him.[b] 11 For anyone who welcomes him has a share in his evil deeds.

la verdad prevaleceOct 22

On false prophets-apostates
2 Peter 2:19-22
New Catholic Bible
They promise them freedom, although they themselves are slaves of depravity. For people are slaves of whatever has mastered them. If they have escaped the world’s defilements through coming to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and then again become entangled and are overpowered, they are worse off in this latter state than they were before.
It would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, having known it, to turn back and abandon the holy commandment that was handed on to them. What happened to them manifests the truth of the proverbs:
“The dog returns to its own vomit,” and “The washed sow returns to wallowing in the mud.”