The Amazon Synod is finally over. Three weeks of nonsense, tree-hugging, and pagan idolatry was mixed in with the important issue of the supposed female diaconate. The issue of the female diaconate was studied in 2002. Pope Francis later convened …
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The Pachamama and the Nebuchadnezzar of Verdi
The news that in these days comes to us around the statuettes of the Pachamama, the mother goddess worshiped in the Inca religion, thrown into the Tiber from Ponte Sant’Angelo, at the foot of the castle dominated by St. Michael, …
Bishop Schneider Publishes Open Letter Condemning Pachamama Idolatry
In a new open letter published today, Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Astana, Kazakhstan, invoking his “ordination as a Catholic bishop and successor to the Apostles,” condemns the use of the pagan “Pachamama” idols in the churches in Rome and praises …
Pope Refers to Disputed Wooden Statues as “Pachamama” in Official Remarks
In official remarks made at the Vatican today, Pope Francis referred to the controversial wooden carvings of a naked, pregnant female that first appeared at a pre-synod ceremony in the Vatican gardens on October 4 as “statues of pachamama.” Pachamama …
Rules for Catholic Radicals
Early Monday morning in Rome, an anonymous group of men entered the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, removed the wooden “Pachamama” idols, and ceremoniously threw them into the Tiber river. Catholics the world over rejoiced, much to the chagrin …
1P5 Podcast Ep. 52 – Amazon Synod Update
Description: Steve looks at a number of developments concerning the Amazon Synod as the meeting of bishops on the Pan-Amazon region reaches the halfway point. NOTE: If you’d like to see a video of this podcast, it is now available on our YouTube …
Amazon Synod Reveals Vatican Bureaucracy Nightmare
We’ve heard it before: universities have changed. Professors no longer teach “Shakespeare 101,” but “Shakespeare and Gender in Multimedia” or “Elizabethan Bard Culture.” And poets like Milton and Crashaw have been “canceled.” The classics aren’t just too dead, too white, …
Scalfari, Friend of Francis, Claims Pope Believes Jesus Was “Not a God At All”
Amidst the raging debate over what was at best a syncretistic (and at worst an overtly pagan) opening ceremony for the Amazon Synod, an early push for ending clerical celibacy from Cardinal Hummes, cringe-inducing virtue-signaling from members of the Catholic …
The Crux of the Current Cross
Who could imagine that the faithful Catholic would now be carrying this cross — a cross certainly no heavier than that of our beloved martyrs before us, yet a cross so seemingly unique in all salvation history? There is a …
The Vatican’s Continuing Idolatry Problem
At a ceremony in the Vatican gardens leading up to the Amazon Synod, a very strange ritual unfolded. In addition to more ecological symbolism than you could shake a shrinking polar ice cap at, we saw some disturbing scenes, including …
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