Vatican Synod report uses Fr. James Martin’s homosexual activist friend as testimony
The Synod on Synodality’s scandalous final report on ‘doctrinal questions’ cites the pro-LGBT testimony of a ‘married’ homosexual man who was ‘blessed’ with his partner by Fr. Martin.
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(LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican Synod on Synodality’s final report on “doctrinal, pastoral and ethical questions” published on Tuesday used the testimony of a man who was “blessed” together with his homosexual “partner” by pro-LGBT activist priest Father James Martin.
The report scandalously endorsed testimony, without qualification, that claims that “sin, at its root, does not consist in the (same-sex) couple relationship” but in “a lack of faith in a God who desires our fulfillment.”
The document relied on the “lived experience” of two anonymous individuals with homosexual inclinations to “aid the promotion of pastoral discernment.” One of these individuals is a man featured in a 2023 New York Times article who was photographed receiving a “blessing” with his male partner from Martin, journalist Diane Montagna reported on Tuesday.
His testimony, the second listed in the report, begins: “My sexuality isn’t a perversion, disorder, or cross; it’s a gift from God. I have a happy, healthy marriage and am flourishing as an openly gay Catholic.”
The man recounts how he was unhappy with the Catholic apostolate Courage, which helps support those suffering from same-sex attraction who wish to live chastely. When he began his PhD in theology at Fordham University, he “learned new forms of theology” that claimed to reconcile Catholicism with acceptance of homosexual relationships, which he referred to as “life-giving.”
As Montagna pointed out, he is identifiable because of the following paragraph:
I got involved in [so-called] LGBTQ ministry and leadership, first in my parish and later with America Media’s Outreach and Fortunate Families, a group based in Lexington, Kentucky. With the help of people capable of offering non-judgmental welcome, I felt heard by the church and that my presence mattered. Priests and even a bishop encouraged me to continue my work. I started writing for national media, became a public advocate for [so-called] LGBTQ Catholics, and worked with Catholic communities around the world. My first book, LGBTQ Catholic Ministry, Past and Present, traced the movement for [so-called] LGBTQ Catholic pastoral care in the United States (emphasis added).
The author of the book is Jason Steidl, and it includes a foreword by Martin. Jason Steidl today lives with a man he calls his “husband,” the same man who stood with him as they were “blessed” by Martin. A photograph of the “blessing” was included in the New York Times article “Marking History on a Tuesday Morning, With the Church’s Blessing,” published a day after the release of Fiducia Supplicans, which claimed that it is permissible to “bless” homosexual “couples.”
Regardless of the Synod report, the Catholic Church teaches that homosexual activity is mortally sinful and that homosexual inclinations are “objectively disordered.” The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’”
Part I of the Synod report calls for a “paradigm shift” in how the Church approaches its “most difficult doctrinal, pastoral and ethical questions,” while Part II features what it calls the “principle of pastorality” as the key for “implementing the paradigm shift currently underway,” Montagna noted.
Part III applies a “listening” method, a so-called “conversation in the Spirit,” to “the experience of homosexual persons who are believers, and the experience of active non-violence.”
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The group that issued the report included Father Maurizio Chiodi, professor at the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for the Sciences of Marriage and the Family since 2019. Chiodi has heretically argued that sexual acts within a homosexual relationship can sometimes be morally good and has “also contended, based on Amoris Laetitia, that responsible parenthood can obligate a married couple to use artificial birth control,” Montagna noted.
“Fr Martin this is not a step forward unless your path is forward into the abyss!” Bishop Joseph Strickland commented on the report. Martin called the document “a major step forward for the Catholic Church.”
READ: Bishop Strickland slams Fr. James Martin for supporting pro-homosexual Synod report
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