(LifeSiteNews) — Fr. James Martin, the Jesuit priest who serves as the chief lobbyist for the normalization of homosexuality and transgenderism within the Catholic Church, is rejoicing over the just-released Vatican Study Group report signaling that the Vatican may be inching toward full acceptance of homosexual “relationships.”
Martin said the report marks “an historic step forward” because it portrays homosexual “relationships” in a positive light.
The jubilant Jesuit declared that the Church is “finally … listening to LGBTQ Catholics,” who maintain that they can be in full communion with the Catholic Church while participating in sexual and romantic relationships that Church teaching has long condemned as “grave depravity” and stated that “under no circumstances can they be approved.”
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Perhaps as if to hide his behind-the-scenes machinations at the Vatican, Martin discussed the second of two personal testimonies included in the Study Group report as a disinterested third person when in fact Martin was infamously pictured in The New York Times imparting a “blessing” on the testimony’s author and his “husband” on December 21, 2023, immediately after the release of Fiducia Supplicans.
In fact, Martin seemed to refer to the pictured “couple” as friends. “Along with many priests, I will now be delighted to bless my friends in same-sex unions,” Martin wrote at the time.
Martin’s reputation for cultivating homosexual influence within the Vatican is legendary enough for respected Vatican commentator Diane Montagna to wonder, “Has the Vatican’s Synod Office Become Fr. James Martin’s PR Arm?”
READ: Vatican Synod report uses Fr. James Martin’s homosexual activist friend as testimony
Martin boasted of the Study Group’s findings on X:
A major step forward for the Catholic Church: The results of Study Group #9 from the Vatican Synod have been released, on “emerging doctrinal, pastoral, and ethical issues.” (NB: the word “emerging” replaces the original term “controversial.”)
The report includes the testimony of two LGBTQ Catholics. As far as I know, this is the first time that such detailed stories of LGBTQ people have been included in an official Vatican report. (At the very least, it’s extremely rare.)
These testimonies are described by the Study Group as “cases in listening,” which aided their discernment. One testimony is from a person in the USA, the other from a person in Portugal. Both speak movingly about their relationships with God, Jesus and the church, as well as the pain that they have experienced in response to how they have sometimes been treated by the church. Listening in this way to LGBTQ people is a major step forward for the Catholic Church.
A major step forward for the Catholic Church: The results of Study Group #9 from the @Synod_va have been released, on “emerging doctrinal, pastoral, and ethical issues.” (NB: the word “emerging” replaces the original term “controversial.”) The report includes the testimony of … pic.twitter.com/8u0Nb65Ake
— James Martin, SJ (@JamesMartinSJ) May 5, 2026
