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Diane Montagna’s Substack: Has the Vatican’s Synod Office Become Fr. James Martin’s PR Arm? – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Diane Montagna’s Substack: Has the Vatican’s Synod Office Become Fr. James Martin’s PR Arm?

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Grok image (AI). A Catholic priest giving a blessing to two men.

By Diane Montagna, Substack, May 05, 2026

Synod study group report highlights testimony of New York Times-featured man blessed with “husband” by James Martin after Fiducia Supplicans.

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 a man featured in a 2023 New York Times article receiving a blessing alongside his same-sex partner from the same Jesuit priest, just one day after the publication of Fiducia Supplicans.

Final Report: Study Group No. 9 ….