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Querida Amazonia: What Does It Say about Priestly Celibacy?

Let’s put the thing everyone wants to know right out in front: no, the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Querida Amazonia does not, within its text, explicitly provide for the ordination of “viri probati”  — married men, likely married permanent deacons — to the priesthood in the Amazon region. Many early reactions to the document are celebrating the…

Worldwide Days of Prayer and Reparation for Amazon Synod Idolatry on Nov. 9th & 10th

I have been working on the latest episode (#53) of the 1P5 podcast for the past couple of days that, unfortunately, was delayed due to some technical issues. These have since been resolved, but I’m still editing, and won’t have time to complete the episode until Saturday, Nov. 9th. (As I write this it’s late…

The Man Who Threw the Pachamama Idols into the Tiber Reveals His Identity

In a video released this morning, a young Austrian Catholic man named Alexander Tschugguel identifies himself as “the guy who threw the Pachamama idols into the river Tiber.” He explains how he came into contact with the idols after attending conferences in Rome, the steps he took to ascertain their true nature, and the ultimate decision…

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 the “courageous and praiseworthy act” of the “brave Christian gentlemen” who “expelled the wooden idolatrous…

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 is a pagan goddess worshiped by the people of the Andes. According to Wikipedia: In…

1P5 Minute Ep. 13 – Amazonian Idols Thrown in the Tiber!

Early this morning, some Catholic men entered St. Maria in Traspontina, near the Vatican, grabbed several of the ugly wooden fertility statues folks have identified as the Andean fertility goddess and pan-amazonian Mother Earth icon Pachamama, and tossed them into the Tiber river. We break down the story in the latest 1P5 Minute: RELATED LINKS:…

Amazonians: The Vatican’s Beloved Specimens, Preserved in Amber

It is considered insensitive, even Hobbesian, to use the word “primitive” in speaking of primordial cultures. Encyclopedia Britannica identifies the phrase primitive culture as belonging to “the lexicon of early anthropologists.” Sir Edward Burnett Tylor, father of cultural anthropology, wrote Primitive Cultures in 1871, before the savage horror of World War I shook confidence in…

Magister: Married Deacons Are Offering “Mass” in the Amazon — and the Pope Permitted It

Vaticanista Sandro Magister reported today that a video of 79-year-old Fr. Giovanni Nicolini, an Italian priest of some stature (and a “protagonist of Vatican II”), has surfaced in which Nicolini claims that in the Amazon region, married deacons are offering “mass” because of the priest shortage, and that Pope Francis not only knows about it, but…

Amazon Synod Working Document Released Today, and It Confirms There’s Trouble on the Horizon

The “Instrumentum Laboris” (working document) for the upcoming Amazon Synod was released today. Currently available only in Italian and Spanish, the 45,000-word document — as expected — contains indications that like the two family synods that came before it, this October’s synod on issues facing the Church in the Amazon river basin will not remain…

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