Jesuit priest, writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America.In 2017, Pope Francis appointed Martin as a consultant to the Vatican's Secretariat for Communications. Martin's outreach to the LGBT community has drawn both support and backlash from within the Catholic Church.This is the subject of his book Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity. In 2021, a documentary film about Martin's LGBT ministry, also called Building a Bridge, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City.