James James Martin SJ is an American Jesuit priest, writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. In 2017, Pope Francis appointed Fr Martin as a consultant to the Vatican's Secretariat for Communications

Endorsing The Tablet’s development fund, Fr Martin said: “When I first encountered The Tablet during my Jesuit novitiate, I was astonished. How could one magazine cover the Catholic Church, in its beautiful and maddening complexity, with such skill, such depth and such gorgeous prose, and do so with such a modestly sized staff? In the 30 years since then, I’ve never stopped reading and I’ve never stopped being astonished. The Tablet is a minor miracle and a necessity for all thinking Catholics.”