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Italian bishops’ mission org publishes ‘prayer to Pachamama’ in official booklet Analysis October 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — A prayer to Pachamama, the “Mother Earth” venerated by indigenous tribes such as the Aymara and Quechua in the Andes but also in the northern plains of Argentina and in Brazil near Bolivia and Peru, has been found in an official booklet of the Fondazione Missio (Mission Foundation) of the Italian bishops’ conference. The prayer is presented without warning about the fact that it is addressed not to God — another prayer in the publication, written in the same letter-type and the same...

[Catholic Caucus] De Mattei: A comment chronology of the pagan Pacha Mama events which the Angels and Saints are far more outraged about than we are When it ends, the Amazon Synod will go down in history as the Pacha Mama Synod. Who is Pacha Mama? She is the Earth Goddess, a pagan divinity venerated by the Synod Fathers gathered in Rome over these past weeks. The image of  Pacha Mama [first]made its appearance in the Vatican Gardens, on October 4, on the eve of the Amazon Synod. During a ceremony led by an Indian woman of the Amazon, in...

Vatican City, Oct 26, 2019 / 01:17 pm (CNA).- The meeting for the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian region has approved a final document which calls for the ordination of married men as priests and for women to be considered for diaconal ordination. The 33-page document, approved Oct. 26, is the result of a three-week meeting in Rome. The synod’s 181 voting members, together with representatives from indigenous communities, religious orders, lay groups and charities, discussed a range of issues concerning the region, spread across nine countries. In ordinary sessions of the Synod of Bishops, delegates are elected by...

Swiss bishop: It is a ‘scandal’ that the Pope ‘defends those rituals inside the Vatican Gardens’ ROME, October 26, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Several voices have come to LifeSiteNews expressimg strong opposition to the presence of the pagan statues of Pachamama in the Vatican, especially in light of the Pope's public defense of these statues and also in light of his identifying them to be Pachamama statues. In addition to a bishop, one theologian priest, two parish priests, and a canon lawyer have written short statements, especially in light of the possibility that Pope Francis might further decide to welcome...