Posted on 05/19/2026 5:08:37 PM PDT by ebb tide
“The aim is to discern, with God’s grace and the contribution of all, “what the Spirit is saying to the churches” (Rev. 2:7), listening for what is true and good by attending to questions that not just theoretical but emerge from the reality of lived experiences.”
James Martin, S.J. rolled out his breathless and fawning media statement in response to the newly released Synodal Study Group #9 regarding the issue of LGBTQ++ in the Church. Martin’s press release in Dignity’s Outreach newsletter entitled, “Vatican listens to LGBTQ people: A major step forward.”
What major step forward? For whom?
According to Fr. Martin,
“In its final report, released today, Study Group #9 of the Synod of Bishops, has published the testimonies of two gay men, as part of what they call “cases for listening.” As far as I know, this marks the first time that a Vatican report has included such detailed stories from LGBTQ Catholics.”
Martin continues:
“The report focuses mainly on the “methodology” by which the church can discern a way forward on “emerging issues.” That is, it asks: What is necessary for the church to discern the correct doctrinal, pastoral and ethical responses to emerging issues? One necessity, they write, is listening. As the Study Group writes in its executive summary, when it comes to the synodal way that the church has embarked on, a way supported by both Popes Francis and Leo XIV, “[T]he disposition to listen to the testimonies shared by the people with first-hand experience takes on particular importance.”
Note carefully the synodal linguistic jiu jitsu of “paradigm shift” deployed 18 times in the Report. Wave a magic synodal wand of “discernment” (used 55 times in the Report) and “listening” (used 28 times) and poof moral doctrines disappear into thin air. Martin and his oppressed cohorts, play the victim, as the aggrieved and persecuted class which is standard Marxist propaganda. The synod report shamelessly employs it:
We wish to highlight the following: the solitude, anguish, and stigma that accompany persons with same-sex attractions and their families, not only in society but also within the Church; this is often linked to the temptation to hide in a “double life.”
As the report posits, “[T]he experience of the synodal church demands that we listen to one another.” As if the world hasn’t been listening to the massive LGBTQ propaganda in the media, in the culture, and in the legal system for the last 60 years. This straw man argument is a head fake by synodal propagandists desperate to change moral teaching on sexual ethics.
The Synodal game plan is blatantly obvious: In fact, Pope Leo let the black cat out of the bag in his Crux interview in July of 2025, when he said, “We must first change attitudes, before ever changing doctrine,” noting that issues like LGBTQ+ inclusion are highly polarizing within the Church. Obviously, these Synodal Study Reports are all about “changing attitudes.”
Brace yourself when you read the synodal documents which are breathtakingly condescending as they instruct the faithful that, “this is a practice of synodal learning.” Attention, children you need to learn to use your inside synodal voice and ears!
Here’s the money quote in all its subtlety: “The synodal process, in reality, calls for a conversion of heart and mind as well as a transformation of practices so that we may walk with fidelity and renewed vigor.” Read that again! Make no mistake the entire synodal process is a psychological exercise to exorcise doctrine from the faith and install a new modern church comprised of the dogma of listening and dialoguing. This report, as well as the entire synodal project is a concerted psychological operation to impose a one world religion by 2030. Change attitudes first, then dogma will follow.
So, in the mandate of the synodal fathers, let’s journey together to St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City on February 15, 2024 at the funeral of transgender activist, one Cecilia Gentili, born a boy in Argentina. Let’s share the “lived experience” of LGBTQia+activism in the Catholic Church.
In synodal lingo, let’s discern the blasphemous and vile theatrics during this LGBTQ+++ funeral service held in the most prominent Catholic Cathedral in North America.
Let’s listen to the dialogue emanating from the pews of this hallowed Catholic Cathedral, the seat of the Archdiocese of New York.
The New York Times dedicated two full columns to the funeral spectacle under the revealing title: St. Patrick’s Cathedral was the site of protests over the church’s position on homosexuality and AIDS. The funeral service was exploited by homosexual activists who loudly mocked and railed against the Church’s stance on gender ideology. To the horror of Catholics, the nave of St. Patrick’s served as the venue for this political drag queen story hour.
Is that disgusting spectacle the “lived experience” that the Synodal fathers want Catholics to embrace?
Is this the paradigm shift that the Vatican is forcing on the faithful?
The LGBTQ++ mourners filled the pews decked out in carefully chosen funeral regalia: the skimpy, the glitzy, the gaudy, and the drag. The Times story on the funeral was filled with glowing details, such as, the “daring outfits—glittery miniskirts and halter tops, fishnet stockings, sumptuous fur stoles and at least one boa sewed from what appeared to be $100 bills.”
Is this the blasphemous acceptance that the synodal fathers insist upon?
Is this the change of attitude that Leo is demanding of the rigid faithful?
The synodal fathers will be happy to learn that Catholics dutifully discerned that the LGBTQ++participants turned the ceremony into a sacrilegious and raucous vaudeville act. Catholics were repulsed and wholeheartedly rejected it.
Catholic Vote condemned the event on X pointing out that:
“Pose” actor Billy Porter, whose singing performance during the funeral was characterized by the group as a mockery of the “Our Father” prayer. “This is just unbelievable and sick,” CatholicVote said on X.
Rest assured, Synodal Fathers, Catholics are listening closely to the mockery of the Our Father at this inclusive LGBTQ++ service.
Let’s continue with the synodal listening journey at the trannie funeral in the sacred space of St. Patrick’s Cathedral, where the holy incorrupt heart relic of St. John Vianney resides.
The New York Times also described that one eulogist led the congregation in repeated chants of “Cecilia, Cecilia,” the deceased’s name; another celebrated her as “St. Cecilia, mother of all whores” and one woman interrupted the “Ave Maria” by twirling and sashaying down the aisle with the refrain of “Ave Cecilia.”
Is this the new synodal inclusion path of mockery of the faith, blasphemy of saints, ridiculing the Blessed Mother envisioned by Leo and his synodal homosexualists?
Is this the paradigm shift that the Synodal Study Report #9 seeks to impose on the Catholic faithful and their children?
Is this the “lived experience” that the Synod report demands that the Catholic faithful adopt with a new conversion of heart and mind?
No amount of Jesuitical jabberwocky or synodal syntactic sludge can dupe Catholics into accepting a sexual paradigm shift on the moral doctrines of the Catholic Church. Gentili’s drag queen funeral mockery exposed the rot and depravity in the LGBTQ movement. While the Vatican may revel in those campy antics, serious Catholics are repelled by it.
For starters, the reality of sodomy and sexual license ushered in AIDS, homosexual marriage, “gender affirming” mutilation, hormone therapy drugs, single gender bathrooms, boys in girls sports and locker rooms, drag queen story hours, preschool homosexual curriculum, and trannie political theatre funerals, and destruction of the family.
No veil of synodal psychobabble can conceal the radical agenda now in full view. Leo’s New Synodal Church, the future replacement for the Roman Catholic Church is determined to obliterate two millennia of Catholic moral teaching and replace it with the promotion of homosexuality in the clergy, in the culture, and in the very doctrine of the Catholic Church.
Clearly, the Synodal Study Group Report #9 welcomes this subversion and diabolical process. Accordingly, the Report should be immediately rescinded, scrubbed from existence and its authors fired.
The battle lines are now drawn. The opponents of the faith are ready for battle. The time is now to engage. If we ignore the synod homosexualist modernists, we do so at our peril and our children’s souls.
Expose the synodal gaslighting and voice a loud and persistent resistance to the modernist agenda.
We have the faith, the saints, and 2000 years of moral teaching. They have their boas.
St. Peter Damian, the llth century Benedictine monk, reformer of the Church, and a declared Doctor of the Church boldly condemned the corruption of sodomy and homosexuality in the Church. He preached and wrote extensively about this scourge on the Church and in society:
The best penance is to have patience with the sorrows God permits. A very good penance is to dedicate oneself to fulfill the duties of everyday with exactitude and to study and work with all our strength. He pours light into our minds, arouses our desire and gives us strength... As the soul is the life of the body, so the Holy Spirit is the life of our souls.
St. Peter Damian gravely cautioned:
Truly, this vice is never to be compared with any other vice because it surpasses the enormity of all vices.... It defiles everything, stains everything, pollutes everything. And as for itself, it permits nothing pure, nothing clean, nothing other than filth.
St. Peter Damian perfectly described the spectacle funeral of the tortured soul of Mr. Gentili.
For a comprehensive critique of the Synodal Process see: The Trojan Horse in the Catholic Church, by Father Enoch. Available at Amazon
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I didn’t get an invitation.
Thanks for posting.
Homosexuality is NOT an emerging issue. It is an issue as old as the church and has been crystal clear since the founding.
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