diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/187-role-errors.yml b/changelogs/fragments/187-role-errors.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ebe887a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/187-role-errors.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+  - "When parsing errors happen in the Sphinx extension, the extension now emits error messages during the build process in addition to error markup (https://github.com/ansible-community/antsibull-docs/pull/187)."
diff --git a/src/sphinx_antsibull_ext/roles.py b/src/sphinx_antsibull_ext/roles.py
index 54c58ea9..e0dae4a8 100644
--- a/src/sphinx_antsibull_ext/roles.py
+++ b/src/sphinx_antsibull_ext/roles.py
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 from docutils import nodes
 from docutils.utils import unescape  # pyre-ignore[21]
 from sphinx import addnodes
+from sphinx.util import logging
 
 from antsibull_docs.markup.semantic_helper import (
     parse_option,
@@ -24,6 +25,8 @@
 
 from .sphinx_helper import extract_explicit_title
 
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 
 def _plugin_ref(plugin_fqcn: str, plugin_type: str) -> str:
     return f"ansible_collections.{plugin_fqcn}_{plugin_type}"
@@ -160,9 +163,11 @@ def _create_ref_or_not(
     return refnode
 
 
-# pylint:disable-next=unused-argument
 def _create_error(rawtext: str, text: str, error: str) -> tuple[list[t.Any], list[str]]:
     content = nodes.strong(text, error, classes=["error"])
+    logger.error(
+        f"while processing {rawtext}: {error}", location=content, type="semantic-markup"
+    )
     return [content], []