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Amazon Synod means the ‘end of Tridentine Church’: French Catholic newspaper Abigail Eltzroth was 'ordained' April 2017 in North Carolina by rebel Catholic group Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests. November 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The editor-in-chief of the French Catholic daily, La Croix, wrote a blog post on Tuesday announcing the “end of the Tridentine Church.” Isabelle de Gaulmyn presents what she considers to be the outcome of the Amazon Synod, calling it a “real revolution” that will close the door on Catholicism as it has existed for five centuries. Interestingly, she remarked that Pope Francis will probably not...

Cardinal Burke: Church is ‘experiencing one of the greatest crises … she has ever known’ DETROIT, November 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Cardinal Raymond Burke told a sold-out Catholic conference in Detroit last weekend that “there is no question that the Church is currently experiencing one of the greatest crises which she has ever known.” “Today perhaps as at no time in the past there is an ever more diffuse phenomenon of general confusion and error regarding doctrine and morals within the Body of Christ,” he told the crowd of 800 at the Oct. 26 Call to Holiness conference in...

[Catholic Caucus] ‘Miraculous’ Novena to Protect From Papal Confusion Faithful Catholics pray Francis 'does not take us over the brink' DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Faithful Catholics will be praying during the month of November in the hope that Pope Francis will uphold Church teaching. Across the world, the faithful have been scandalized by the Amazon Synod in Rome. The release of the synod's final document has been heavily criticized by bishops and faithful alike for its focus on liberation theology, its pushing of paganism and women's ordination, and for the ensuing confusion that it's created.  Though synod fathers are recommending these changes, it is up to Pope...

German Bishop Attacks Pachamama, Exposes Another Bishop By Name Saint Bonifatius (+755) did neither dance around the Donar’s Oak nor embraced it, but cut it down and used its wood to make a cross and a chapel.Regensburg Bishop Rudolf Voderholzer, Germany, said this in an October 31 homily. He presented Bonifatius in contrast to the recent Vatican Pachamama ceremonies which have “not been purified nor transformed” according to Catholic piety.Voderholzer further defended celibacy calling it impossible to create exceptional cases for second class regions, “In such an important questions there cannot and will not be only regional solutions.”Voderholzer then attacked...

The Mother of God and Pachamama: The Sign of the Church in Crisis Pachamama.  Mamapacha.  One knows when things get to a point of desperation when one wishes that he were one of the populi Romani who ditched the fertility idols into the Tiber.  Their mistake is that they did not use weights to make sure they sunk into the muck of the Tiber.  Even the liberal press in the United States is embarrassed by the spectacle of the Pope and Cardinals and bishops staring at the fertility images in the Vatican Gardens as if this were something serious being...

Ritual bowl for demonic Pachamama placed on St. Peter’s altar at closing Mass of #AmazonSynod Robert Moynihan is a long-time vaticanista.  In his latest “Letter #59, 2019: In plain sight“, he looks into the pagan element worked into the closing Mass of the Amazon Synod (“walking together”).  We had speculated about whether or not the wooden demon idols of Pachamama, a demon goddess to whom human sacrifice was offered, a kind of “mother earth” embodiment, but clearly demonic, would be involved at the closing Mass of the “walking together”.   Nope. No demon statuette.That doesn’t mean that Pachamama, the demon pagans...

Catholic dioceses are responding to the callVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholic dioceses in the United States and Canada are officially participating in ecumenical prayer services with Lutherans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ), a document that some view as unifying and others as erroneous. Members of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity (PCPCU) signed the JDDJ on Oct. 31, 1999, having chosen Reformation Day for the event. Reformation Day commemorates German monk and priest Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the door...

Vatican News Website Promoting Heresy: Pascendi Explains Everything Pascendi was the greatest Catholic document of the past 250 years. The simple parish priest Giuseppe Sarto explained all that had been going on in the underground of the Church since the 1789 Revolution and prophesied much of what would happen later, as we can see with our own eyes. Saint Pius X did much to stem the tide, and we can see that his efforts lasted for decades. But, of course, there is no way to stop traitors with an "oath", because they lie through their teeth and double-dealing is their...

The apostate ‘faith’ of the Amazon Synod Below we will take a look at the Catholic faith (in black), followed by the propositions set forth by the architects of the Amazonian Synod in the Instrumentum Laboris (in red), the same having been made manifest over the past few weeks in Rome.At the conclusion, that a pagan planter representing Pachamama (or Mother Earth) was placed on the altar at St. Peter’s to close the event last Sunday, while no less reprehensible, will perhaps make a little more sense.

Marco Tosatti: The Battle of Joseph Ratzinger  The current pontiff has resurrected liberation theologians ousted under Benedict Veteran Vatican journalist Marco Tosatti has published a fascinating book review that provides excellent perspective on the roots of the confusion in the Church embodied by the Synod on the Amazon. His source writes using the pseudonym "Super Ex" because he has formerly worked within various Church movements and has an excellent knowledge of the truth of how things stand with the hierarchy. This review presents an incisive analysis of the present situation of the Church, and above all of the battle that Joseph Ratzinger has fought throughout his life to defend the Church from her enemies who...

‘Courageous…prophets of today’: Dubia cardinal praises men who threw Pachamamas in Tiber October 29, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, one of the two remaining dubia cardinals and a respected Church historian – praised the men who removed the controversial pagan “Pachamama” statues from a church in Rome and threw them into the Tiber River as “courageous...prophets of today.”  'Pachamama' statue on bridge over Tiber river prior to being thrown in, Rome, Oct. 21, 2019. (Photo available on sourced article) “These two young men who threw these tasteless idols into the Tiber have not committed theft, but have done a...

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...

Italian bishops’ agency published prayer to Pachamama Missio, the pastoral agency of the Italian Episcopal Conference, published a prayer to Pachamama in an April 2019 publication devoted to the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon Region. The prayer, described as a “prayer to Mother Earth of the Inca peoples,” reads: Pachamama of these places, drink and eat this offering at will, so that this earth may be fruitful. Pachamama, good Mother, be favorable! Be favorable! Make that the oxen walk well, and that they not become tired. Make that the seed sprout well, that nothing bad...

Bishops Threatened To Boycott Pachamama Closing Mass: Did Francis Fool Them? Several bishops warned they would not attend the Amazon Synod's Closing Mass, if Pachamama idols were to be displayed, reports kath.net (October 28).As a matter of fact, the idols were not visible during the Mass.However, Regina Magazine reports that Pachamama was present in another form.In fact, during the offertory procession, Francis received a “bowl of earth” that was even put on the altar.The En.Wikipedia.com article on Pachamama writes under the heading "New Age worship" that modern pagan communities in the Andes use a "bowl of earth" to represent Pachamama...

[Catholic Caucus] Pray for a Miracle — An Initial Reaction to the Close of the Synod I, like many of you, feel overwhelmed by the events of the past month in Rome. Many an evening, late into the night, I have come before the Lord in the rectory chapel in lament for the confusion and chaos in the Church, the Lord’s beautiful bride and our mother. Oftentimes too in the fourth watch of the night, between 3 and 4 a.m., I return to the chapel, for with my cares I cannot long rest. Reported from Rome are terrible and seemingly impious...

[Catholic Caucus] Married Priests Barely Pass. Women Deacons Flunk. The Criticisms of a Synod Father The synod for the Amazon ended its work today, October 26, with a point-by-point vote on the concluding document. But this document has no normative effect whatsoever. It was simply handed over to Pope Francis so that he may decide what is to be done, and write it in a post-synodal exhortation expected in the early months of the coming year.Further below readers will find an anthology og the most controversial points of the document, with the respective votes for and against.But as a guide...

[Catholic/Anglican Caucus] Cdl. Burke: ‘See of Peter Appears to Favor the Confusion’ Repeats condemnation of Amazon Synod working document as 'apostasy' DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - In a packed room Saturday, Cdl. Raymond Burke warned against the growing confusion in the Church and emphasized the immutable truths of the Catholic faith.Cdl. Raymond Burke was introduced by Fr. Aidan Logan, vocations director for the archdiocese of the Military. Nearly a thousand attended the annual Call to Holiness Conference in Detroit, Michigan, where the former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura entered the room to a standing ovation. The absence of one of the conference's co-founders, Fr....

[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...

The Pachamama Pope In October 4 Vatican ceremony, Pope Francis blesses pachamama statue (LifesiteNews) The statues of the fertility idol that vandals had removed from a Catholic parish in Rome and tossed into the Tiber have been recovered, said Pope Francis. Excerpt from his remarks: “Good afternoon, I would like to say a word about the pachamama statues that were removed from the Church at Traspontina, which were there without idolatrous intentions and were thrown into the Tiber.“First of all, this happened in Rome and, as bishop of the diocese, I ask pardon of the people who were offended by this act.” So the...

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...