Art Smith, a celebrity chef and longtime LGBT activist, will help run the restaurant currently being built on the grounds of the pope's summer retreat center in Italy.
Pope Leo's meetings during the summer retreat will be key, as they may serve to inform his decisions not only about Vatican appointments but about the wider impact on the Catholic Church.
The papal estate at Castel Gandolfo has been owned by the Vatican since 1596 and has been used by popes as a summer home since Urban VIII’s first sojourn there in 1626.
The priority of Pope Francis appears clear: faith and the practice of religion must always remain subservient to the ideology of climate change rhetoric.
The new center will operate out of Castel Gandolfo and will provide a training ground to promote the ‘convictions, new attitudes and lifestyles’ necessary for ‘ecological conversion.’