[Peter ODonnell]

Massimo Faggioli sounds like a name made up by a B grade novelist as a gay apologist at the Vatican.

[ebb tide]

Actually, you're right on the money! Here's an article of Massimo Faggioli's defending the ultimate homo apologist, James Martin, S.J.:

Catholic Cyber-Militias and the New Censorship

[Bigg Red]

Certainly fits.