EWTN News reports that the Vatican’s General Secretariat of the Synod has published testimonies from two men in civil same-sex marriages, presented as annexes to the final report of Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality. One testimony describes homosexual orientation as “a gift from God,” while the report proposes a “listening-based approach” to doctrinal questions, explicitly acknowledging the difficulty of reconciling “doctrinal firmness” with “pastoral welcome.” This constitutes a direct assault on the unchanging moral teaching of the Catholic Church, which categorically condemns homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered” and calls those so afflicted to chastity. The document represents not a development but a corruption of doctrine, a capitulation to the spirit of the age that has infected the conciliar sect since its inception.
The Abomination of Desolation Speaks: Homosexual “Marriage” Presented as a Gift
The EWTN News article details how the Synod study group’s report includes the testimony of a U.S. Catholic man in a civil marriage with another man, who declares: “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.” This statement is not merely a personal opinion; it is a direct and public contradiction of the perennial teaching of the Catholic Church, rooted in Sacred Scripture, Tradition, and the Magisterium.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, in its articles 2357, 2358, and 2359, which the article itself cites, teaches with absolute clarity:
- Homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” and “do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity.”
- They “under no circumstances can they be approved.”
- Homosexual persons “are called to chastity” and, through “the support of disinterested friendship, by prayer and sacramental grace, they can and should gradually and resolutely approach Christian perfection.”
To present a homosexual orientation as a “gift from God” in the context of justifying a same-sex union is to pervert the very concept of divine gift. It is to call evil good and good evil (Isaiah 5:20). This is not a “pastoral” approach; it is a pastoral betrayal, a leading of souls into mortal sin under the guise of compassion. The true compassion of the Church has always been to call sinners to repentance and conversion, not to affirm them in their sin.
The “Principle of Pastorality” as a Weapon Against Truth
The report is rooted in what it calls the “principle of pastorality,” which stresses that Christian proclamation must take into account concrete persons and their lived experience. This is a modernist principle, condemned by Pope St. Pius X in his encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907), which identified the modernist error of making the religious conscience and its experience the rule of faith. The Synod’s approach inverts the order of truth: instead of the lived experience being judged by immutable doctrine, doctrine is to be discerned through the filter of lived experience.
The document explicitly recognizes the difficulty of harmonizing doctrine and pastoral practice, stating that polarized positions result in “profound suffering, personal lacerations, and experiences of marginalization.” This language reveals the core of the modernist error: it places the subjective feelings of individuals above the objective truth of God’s law. The suffering described is not a reason to change doctrine; it is a consequence of the human condition after the Fall, a cross to be carried in imitation of Christ, not a license to redefine morality.
The Methodology of Apostasy: “Conversation in the Spirit”
The report proposes a method based on three steps within what it calls “conversation in the Spirit”: listening to ourselves, paying attention to reality, and summoning various forms of expertise. This is a secular, therapeutic model imported into the life of the Church. It is the antithesis of the Catholic method, which is to listen to God as He has revealed Himself, to pay attention to the reality of sin and grace, and to summon the expertise of the Church Fathers, the Councils, and the perennial Magisterium.
The goal of this “conversation” is not the conversion of sinners but the “fostering of a synodal Church in which the people of God actively participate in discernment.” This is the democratization of the Church, a heresy that reduces the Mystical Body of Christ to a human assembly where truth is determined by consensus rather than received from the Apostles. As Pope Pius IX taught in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), the Church is a true and perfect society, entirely free, endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder (Proposition 19). She does not derive her authority from the “people of God” but from Christ alone.
The Omission of the Supernatural: A Telltale Sign of Modernism
The gravest accusation against this Synod report is its silence about supernatural matters. There is no mention of the state of grace, the necessity of confession for mortal sin, the reality of final judgment, or the call to Christian perfection through the sacraments. The entire framework is naturalistic, focusing on psychological well-being, social inclusion, and personal flourishing. This is the hallmark of the modernist, who, as St. Pius X described, “is always on the side of those who are in error” and seeks to “reconcile” the faith with the world by emptying it of its supernatural content.
The report’s call to pay attention to those on existential, social, and cultural “peripheries” is a classic modernist trope, replacing the spiritual periphery of sin and error with a sociological category. The true periphery is the state of mortal sin, and the Church’s mission is to call all men from that periphery to the center of truth and grace.
The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This Synod report is not an anomaly; it is the logical and inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution that began with the antipope John XXIII and the Second Vatican Council. The “spirit of Vatican II,” which has animated the post-conciliar structures, is precisely this spirit of aggiornamento, of “updating” the Church to conform to the modern world. The Synod on Synodality is the culmination of this process, a formalization of the Church’s surrender to the spirit of the age.
The fact that this report will be presented to the antipope Leo XIV for study is irrelevant. The entire structure is apostate, and any “discernment” within it will only produce further apostasy. The true Church endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests, not in the paramasonic structures occupying the Vatican.
Conclusion: A Call to Reject the Synod and Return to Tradition
The Synod report on “emerging issues” is a document of theological and spiritual bankruptcy. It elevates subjective experience over objective truth, naturalistic pastoral care over supernatural charity, and the spirit of the world over the Spirit of God. It is a scandal to the faithful and a sign of the times, confirming the warnings of Our Lady of Fatima (whose message, despite its approved status, has been co-opted and distorted by the modernists) and the prophecies of the saints regarding the great apostasy.
The duty of every Catholic is to reject this report and the entire Synod process as a modernist corruption. The immutable teaching of the Church on homosexuality, as on all moral matters, must be upheld without compromise. As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925), Christ the King must reign over all nations and all aspects of life, and His law is not subject to revision by human assemblies. The only path to true peace and unity is the return to the integral Catholic faith, the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the unchanging Magisterium of the true Church.
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Synod report condemns ‘devastating effects’ of conversion therapies for homosexual persons (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.05.2026