Jesuit Father James Martin was a key figure behind the inclusion of two testimonies in the Study Group No. 9 report on homosexuality, released earlier this month by the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod.
In an article published today in the Spanish-language online publication Página Católica (reproduced below in English), the author of Testimony 1 — a Portuguese layman openly living in a same-sex union — is revealed to be closely linked to the Jesuit priest.
Last week, the author of Testimony 2 was identified as Jason Steidl Jack, the man featured on the front page of The New York Times in 2023 being blessed by Fr. James Martin alongside his “husband,” one day after the publication of Fiducia Supplicans.
The revelations even further erode the credibility of the Synod on Synodality, long presented by the Vatican as an exercise in listening to the whole Church with broad ecclesial representation.
Meanwhile, the General Secretariat of the Synod has distanced itself from the SG 9 report. In comments today to Religión Confidencial, a secretariat spokesperson stressed that “the working groups have, as expected, worked autonomously” and that, therefore, “these reports cannot be attributed to the Synod Secretariat.”
“The Secretariat’s logo does not even appear, only that of the synodal process,” he added.
The spokesperson further emphasized that “these reports are only working documents.”
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