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How it begins…
Has the Vatican’s Synod Office Become Fr. James Martin’s PR Arm?
Synod study group report highlights testimony of New York Times-featured man blessed with “husband” by James Martin after Fiducia Supplicans.
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VATICAN CITY, 6 May 2026 — On Tuesday, the Vatican published the Final Report of the Synod on Synodality’s study group on “controversial doctrinal, pastoral and ethical questions,” prominently featuring two anonymous testimonies from openly homosexual men in “same-sex marriages.”
The decision was immediately praised by Fr. James Martin, SJ, as “a significant step forward in the Church’s relationship with the LGBTQ community.”
What neither the Vatican nor Fr. Martin has acknowledged, however, is that one of the testimonies appears to have been written by the man featured in a 2023 New York Times article receiving a blessing with his same-sex partner from the same Jesuit priest, just one day after the publication of Fiducia Supplicans.
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Coincidence?
You’ll probably get angry as you read more.
Sin is sin; it is the fallout Original Sin that we try justify or excuse it. We may “feel good” when committing such sins, but our hearts will only find true peace and happiness when they rest in God.
Also, I know people who are part of Courage; they are not lonely, depressed people as outlined in the testimony in the study. They are people who are serious about living their faith. Unmarried people are called to live chaste lives regardless of their orientation.
God never promised us an easy life. It is foolish and stupid to think otherwise.
It amazes me that, in light of this pro-mortal sin slop, there are still those who think the SSPX’s claim of an emergency in the Church to be overblown.
The Synod Study groups are rigged by the lavender mafia?
Fancy that.
To give credit where credit’s due, Fr. Martin is doing an admirable job in making those who insist there is NOT a State of Emergency in the Church look like complete fools. That this man can support and peddle such perversity out in the open and receive not punishment but the accolades and respect and time of the pope (Pope Leo found time to meet with Fr. Martin but not with the SSPX) would be laughably absurd if it weren’t so sad and leading so many souls to destruction. I believe those who say Fr. Martin is one of the most influential American Catholics alive today – what an absolutely sad statement.
I found the easiest-to-understand paragraph:
“In coherence with the principle of pastorality, we can describe certain procedural modes useful
for the discernment of emerging issues and for the active participation of the concrete subjects, both
personal and communal, who are directly involved. To this end, it is important to recall, first and
foremost, the fundamental meaning of the “conversation in the Spirit” experienced during the synodal
journey.”
There. Saved you all some time. WHAT UTTER GARBAGE.
Why all the complexity and word salads? Any modernist Churchman who proclaims the Latin Mass is complex should be forced to read from those documents, aloud, in public, with a straight face. What utter dumbassery.
There endeth my rant.
Sorry, another one (from the end of part 2 of the document):
“Recognizing the authority of the words exchanged and listened to is not a methodological
expedient, but a decisive ecclesiological orientation.”
That strays dangerously into heretical territory – what if those words conflict directly with the words of Jesus?
Okay, now I’ll stop. Maybe someone more informed on synodality can summarise what we are meant to do.
I wonder what Saruman says about all this.