The statement issued by the Seminario Conciliar de Madrid does not refute the facts published by InfoVaticana. Quite the contrary, it confirms them in their essential elements, introducing only an interpretive nuance that does not alter the reality of what happened.
The Seminario itself expressly acknowledges that:
- The training sessions were conducted.
- They were conducted by the priest Fr. Jesús Sastre García.
- They were part of the ordinary formation of the seminarians.
At no point does the statement deny a central and easily verifiable fact: the email provided to the seminarians as the course reference was acompanantes@crismhom.org. InfoVaticana has been able to confirm documentarily through open sources that this email is not a personal email, but rather the official channel that the association CRISMHOM— an active and publicly involved LGTBIQ+H organization in promoting a specific pastoral and doctrinal vision—uses for its spiritual accompaniment system.
This email channels the spiritual activity of an association that explicitly excludes the consideration of active homosexual relationships as sin, a position that is known, public, and reiterated. The priest who conducted the sessions is also listed as an accompanier in those processes, which is equally verifiable.
It is worth recalling that, before noon, a statement from CRISMHOM appeared denying that the archdiocese had involved the association in any formation. In that text—initially published by Religión Digital and later withdrawn—it was claimed that the email acompanantes@crismhom.org would be the priest’s “personal email,” as the person responsible for the association’s accompaniment area.
This denial, far from clarifying anything, de facto confirmed the organic and functional link between the priest, the email, and CRISMHOM’s spiritual structure.
After the disappearance of that statement, another one is now published, this time from the Seminario Conciliar, which confirms everything published by InfoVaticana, except for one point as decisive as it is problematic: the assertion that the content delivered fully adhered to “the Magisterium of the Church.”
InfoVaticana has received no exercise of the right of reply, nor a single specific challenge to the facts reported. Our information was precise, detailed, and verifiable: specific contents were outlined, erroneous doctrinal references, and the exact day—November 14—on which statements were made that caused scandal, even leading to specific meetings with the Seminario’s director. None of this is refuted; it is simply ignored or dismissed with a generic denial, without any explanation.
The only substantive argument is that, according to the Archdiocese, everything delivered would have adhered to the Magisterium of the Church. We cannot discuss what CRISMHOM understands by Magisterium, nor what specific interpretation Cardinal Cobo handles, but the objective facts remain: the course was conducted, the official email of an LGTBIQ+H association was presented as a reference to the seminarians, and the trainer publicly maintains positions incompatible with the Church’s moral doctrine as it has been taught consistently.
The imprudence—if not irresponsibility—of choosing certain trainers, of normalizing certain associations, and of being photographed with them has consequences. And those consequences are suffered, above all, by the seminarians.
From InfoVaticana, we want to express our moral support for the brave seminarians, for the young people who try to live their vocation in a wounded and deviated Church, and who moreover see how those who clearly defend the Magisterium are pointed out and attacked. Their task is not easy. Their cross is heavy.