Synod fathers carry "Pachamama" Posted on 10/25/2019 3:42:34 PM PDT by ebb tide
VATICAN (ChurchMilitant.com) - An Amazonian bishop is denouncing the "demonic sacrileges" taking place in Rome, confirming that the controversial fertility figure dubbed "Pachamama" is indeed a pagan goddess.
Bishop José Luis Azcona, Emeritus Bishop of Marajó in the Amazon region, is condemning the pagan rites surrounding the idol as "demonic sacrileges that produce scandal."
"In those rituals there is the devil, there is magic. Our Lady is not the Pachamama, she is the Virgin of Nazareth,” the Spanish-born prelate thundered in a 45-minute sermon given Oct. 16 in the Basilica of Our Lady of Nazareth, Belem, in the Amazonian state of Para, Brazil.
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Bishop Azcona, who in August called the synod's Instrumentum Laboris (working document) a "document of straw," referred to REPAM's pre-synodal meeting in Brazil last June during which several "indigenous rituals with invocations and prayers in which some bishops also participated" took place.
Synod fathers carry "Pachamama"
REPAM is a Catholic network that advocates on behalf of Amazonians and is headed by Cdl. Claudio Hummes, relator general of the Amazon Synod, and a proponent of ordaining women deacons and making exemptions to clerical celibacy.
"These are fundamental issues and here in the Amazon we know the meaning of Macumba or Condomblè," said Bp. Azcona, lashing out at the Vatican ceremony. "They are magical rites and curses, coming from northeastern Brazil and the state of Bahia, which are frequent here."
Delivering his homily in Portuguese, Bp. Azcona affirmed that "these celebrations depend on the spirits that are evoked and it is evident that this is witchcraft, from which the letter of St. Paul to the Galatians warns us, in chapter 5, verse 29, when he denounces the sin of idolatry that is incompatible with the Gospel and with mission."
The bishop likened the idols "venerated in the Vatican" to the Anatolian mother goddess Cybele and to the Hellenic goddess Astarte: "Both express the fertility of women."
Pagan offering to Pachamama
"The invocation of the statuettes in front of which even some religious have bowed in the Vatican (and I will not mention the religious order to which they belong) is the invocation of the mythical power of Mother Earth, to which they are asking blessings upon humanity or offering gestures of gratitude," he insisted. "These are scandalous demonic sacrileges, especially for the little ones who can't discern."
"Mother earth should not be worshiped because everything, even the earth, is under the dominion of Jesus Christ," he said. "It is not possible that there are spirits with a power equal to or greater than that of Our Lord or that of the Virgin Mary."
In a homily punctuated by applause from a packed congregation, the prelate declaimed:
Pachamama is not and never will be the Virgin Mary. To say that statue represents the Virgin is a lie. She is not the Lady of the Amazon because the only Lady of the Amazon is Mary of Nazareth. Let's not make syncretistic mixes. All this is impossible: the Mother of God is the Queen of Heaven and earth.
In a subtle reference to Pope Francis, Azcona called for the discernment of the Holy Spirit to distinguish what comes from the devil or from the human mind, noting that the Holy Father talked a great deal about discernment.
The Amazonian bishop's sermon will be seen as a rebuke to liberal Western Catholic media who have attacked the traditional Catholic opposition to the idols as "shameful racist and sexist."
Investiture of Bp. Moisés Atisha of Arica, Chile, where bishops took
part in an indigenous ritual invoking the spirits of the Aymara Indians
Last month, Bp. Azcona criticized the Instrumentum Laboris for promoting neo-Pelagian heresy and said that it had completely ignored the real issues of the Amazonian region: Pentecostalism and pedophilia.
Calling child abuse a "dramatic, piercing problem, of which the document does not speak" and "which reaches impressive levels," the bishop spoke of how this victimization constituted "an essential part of theabandoned and destroyed face of Jesus in the Amazon."
In Pará alone in one year there were 25,000 reports of crimes of pedophilia, while experts said that for every case of child sex abuse reported there are four others unreported, Bp. Azcona observed.
"Where is the pastoral sensitivity on the part of those responsible for the Instrumentum Laboris so obvious and so firmly expressed by the Holy Father Pope Francis?" he asked.
"The Amazon, at least the Brazilian Amazon, is no longer Catholic," because it "has a Pentecostal majority," the bishop noting that "in some regions of Amazonia the Pentecostal majority reaches 80%."
Cdl. Gianfranco Ravasi participating in "Pachamama" ritual
Returning to the theme of the demonic, he lamented that "nowhere in the Instrumentum Laboris is there talk of the presence of demons or their influence, of their wickedness in people, peoples and cultures, as well as the victory of Christ, His liberation and destruction of the power of the Malignant," cautioning that the Amazon Synod ran the risk of fomenting schism.
Meanwhile, Brazilian sources have told Church Militant that the syncretism exposed at the synod is only the tip of the iceberg and such pagan practices have deeply penetrated Catholicism under the guise of inculturation.
This is one reason why Catholics are leaving the Church and joining Pentecostal and evangelical groups, they said.
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At the investiture of Moisés Atisha, bishop of Arica, Chile, the bishops participated in an indigenous ritual invoking the spirits of the pagan Aymara Indians.
In a YouTube video, Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, biblical scholar who directed the Italian Catholic Bible project and former president of the Pontifical Council for Culture, can be seen participating in a pagan Pachamama ritual in San Marcos Sierras, Argentina.
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Francis and his allies in the Homo Mafia within The Church are bound and determined to bring down the Catholic Church. If that is not obvious to any Catholic by now then they are either hopelessly blind or, co-conspirators.
Full sisclosure, I am Greek Orthodox, not Catholic. But, my wife and children are. We discuss these issues together quite often. They are dismayed at the current condition of their church. And, frankly, so am I.
The state of the Catholic Church is sad indeed. Pray always.
I was shocked and disgusted reading, “Si Laudatio,” which many very orthodox Catholics praise. It personifies Earth into a Sister, quoting St. Francis out of context, and says she “moans in travail,” misquoting St. Paul.
I once learned (and have no idea of the truth of it) that the Chinese say, “May you live in historic times” as a curse.
They talk like Pentecostalism is the problem and Pachamama is not!
Bishop Azcona did no such thing.
While the Church goes pagan,
Pentecostals are at least Christian.
Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.
I think the expression says “interesting” rather than “historic”.
“...determined to bring down the Catholic Church.”
Yawn. As if Napolean was a walk in the park. Trust the Lord, respect the Papacy and acknowledge the weaknesses of non-Roman Catholic stipulations. From 2001: “FATHER CHRYSOSTOMOS fears the visit of Pope John Paul II, stating, ‘He will infect our country.’” Grow up, please.
What’ the Vatican response to this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3787834/posts
and this;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787853/posts
and this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787838/posts
should be met with crys of enough Pope’s gotta go
Yawn? Really? That is your response to the crisis within the church?
Do you deny there is a crisis? Apparently you do.
So, the many priests, cardinals, bishops, deacons, etc...raising the alarm all need to grow up? They are all fools?
The man of God in this article needs to grow up. Because you say so?
The decades of documented abuse by pedophile homosexual priests are all a fantasy? And, all the victims of those pedophiles need to grow up? Please?
The well documented of cover-ups and transfers of pedophile priests from one diocese to another to cover for the homo priests is all fantasy and never happened?
May I suggest you contemplate that there is someone else that needs to grow up. Please. And, look himself in the mirror and contemplate that the very many devout Catholics raising the alarm might have a very valid and urgent need to do so.
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