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The centuries-old remains of more than 200 children have been discovered in Peru, according to reports. Experts say that the macabre discovery is likely the world’s largest child sacrifice site. The children, who were between the ages of 4 and 14, reportedly were sacrificed to honor the gods of the pre-Columbian Chimu culture. Experts think that the children — killed during wet weather and buried facing the sea — were sacrificed in relation to an “El Niño” event. Peruvian press agency Andina reports that archaeologists found the skeletal remains of 250 children and 40 warriors at Huanchaco, 346 miles north...

At least eight people were killed and dozens injured in the Bolivian city of Sacaba on Friday, after security forces fired on supporters of ousted president Evo Morales, according to the Associated Press. With tensions running high following Morales' resignation last Sunday, demonstrators took to the streets to decry the nation's interim president, Jeanine Añez. The protesters, made up largely of members of Bolivia's indigenous population, view Añez's rule as illegitimate and are calling for Morales to return. The former president has been granted asylum in Mexico. Protesters said the violence began after they tried to cross a military checkpoint...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Following through on a proposal made at the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon, Pope Francis said there are plans to include a definition of ecological sins in the church's official teaching. "We should be introducing -- we were thinking -- in the Catechism of the Catholic Church the sin against ecology, ecological sin against the common home," he told participants at a conference on criminal justice Nov. 15. Members of the International Association of Penal Law were in Rome Nov. 13-16 for the conference, which centered on the theme, "Criminal Justice and Corporate Business."Pope Francis...

A day after Jeanine Anez claimed the presidency, violent clashes broke out between rock-throwing Morales' supporters and police in riot gear, who fired volleys of tear gas to disperse the large crowd of protesters. "My commitment is to return democracy and tranquillity to the country," she said. "They can never again steal our vote." Bolivia's top constitutional court issued a statement late Tuesday laying out the legal justification for Anez taking the presidency — without mentioning her by name. Eduardo Gamarra, a Bolivian political scientist at Florida International University, said the constitution clearly states that Anez didn't need a congressional...

Pachamama and the Gods of Ancient Greece. The Lesson of Paul in Athens The synod for the Amazon has been filed away, but the “scandal” that accompanied its unfolding is far from being healed.Generating this “sign of contradiction” was Pope Francis himself, at first on October 4 in the Vatican Gardens, by attending prostrations in front of unidentified objects of worship including a wooden statuette of a naked and pregnant woman that was carried in procession the following day inside the basilica of Saint Peter, and in the second place on October 25 in the synod hall, by identifying the...

Abp Viganò joins statement urging Pope to repent for Pachamama idolatry November 12, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the prelate who leaked information about Pope Francis covering up now ex-Cardinal McCarrick’s abuse of seminarians, has added his name to a statement of priests and lay scholars to protest the pagan worship of Pachamama that took place last month during the Amazon Synod in Rome with Pope Francis' active participation and apparent support.  In the statement that was released today, the 100 international signatories called upon the Pope to “repent publicly and unambiguously of these objectively grave sins”...

Contra Recentia Sacrilegia: Protest against Pope Francis's sacrilegious acts Protest against Pope Francis’s sacrilegious acts We the undersigned Catholic clergy and lay scholars protest against and condemn the sacrilegious and superstitious acts committed by Pope Francis, the Successor of Peter, in connection with the recent Amazon Synod held in Rome. These sacrilegious acts are the following:  - On October 4, Pope Francis attended an act of idolatrous worship of the pagan goddess Pachamama.    -  He allowed this worship to take place in the Vatican Gardens, thus desecrating the vicinity of the graves of the martyrs and of the church...

Cardinal Burke expresses ‘respect…gratitude’ for man who threw Pachamama ‘idol’ in Tiber November 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Raymond Burke praised the young man who last month threw Pachamama statues used in rituals connected to the recently concluded Amazon Synod into the Tiber river in Rome, saying he has “respect” for him and has “gratitude” for his “courageous witness to the faith.” In a new interview with The New York Times columnist Ross Douthat, Cardinal Burke for the first time commented on the Pachamama controversy that took place during the recent October 6-27 Pan-Amazon Synod in Rome. In this...

Pachamama: New to the Vatican But No Stranger to the UN UNEP Pachamama Course UNEP Pachamama Course The United Nations Environment Programme published a children’s textbook in 2002 interestingly entitled Pachamama — a course on why the world’s environment is being degraded and an assessment of “how our Mother Earth is doing today.”The UNEP says in the book that “Pachamama” means not just ‘Mother Earth’ in Inca culture but also “living in total harmony with the Earth and not from the Earth. It suggests a lifestyle in harmony with nature.”During the Amazon Synod last month, what the Holy Father called...

* Santiago's Plaza Italia has been used for three weeks as the main gathering site for the mass demonstrations* But yesterday the protest escalated as a hooded group began to loot the La Asuncion church in the area* Church pews, pianos, religious paintings and iconography were all carried out of the door and set alight * Nationwide protests, which have a range of demands, have so far left 20 dead and a further 2,500 injured Demonstrators have started looting churches in Chile as the long-running protests continue. Thousands of people had gathered near the site in Santiago's Plaza Italia that...

Pope Francis says St. Paul ‘built a bridge’ to the Athens pagans, ignores his condemnation of idols VATICAN CITY, November 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― Ignoring Saint Paul’s condemnation of graven images, Pope Francis stated that the saint provided an example of the “inculturation” of the Gospel when he preached in Athens. In a homily during his usual Wednesday audience, the pontiff stated that St. Paul used his encounter with the pagan idols of the ancient city “to build a bridge to dialogue with that culture.” “Paul chose to enter into familiarity with the city and began therefore to frequent...

Rome: Catholics Demand Annulment of Amazon Synod Echoes of the tumult following the 9th-century 'Cadaver Synod' ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - The day before the end of the Amazon Synod, dawn broke over Rome to reveal a new sign among the city's ancient scenery: a huge banner hanging from a central bridge, whose defiant words declared, "John IX has taught us: Annulling a synod is not a sin!" "John IX has taught us: Nullifying a synod is not a sin!" The banner was taken down by city officials the same day (photo credit: Radio Spada) The writing was accompanied by a drawing of the Sacred Heart, a symbol...

Francis‘ Pachamama Cult Is Spreading Sant Antoni Maria Claret parish on the Baleraric Island Menorca, Spain, celebrated Pachamama during a 10 a.m. Novus Ordo eucharist on November 3.Four guests participated at the event. They were introduced as a “group of itinerant missionaries” who participated in the Amazon Synod and were travelling back to the Amazon. Menorca is no stop-over for such a journey.A Pachamama effigy was placed in front of the altar. Another attraction was a bare-breasted, over-weight young man in a hula skirt with feathers on his head.He walked barefoot around in the church carrying a coconut oil lamp....

[Barf Alert] Inculturation: A two-way street During last month’s Synod for the Amazon held in Rome, an incident occurred that outraged many people. Early one morning, two people removed from the Church of St. Mary in Traspontina statues that were used in the opening ceremonies of the synod — and threw them into the Tiber River.The artwork from the Amazon region depicted a pregnant woman, a symbol of motherhood and the sacredness of life, that represents for indigenous peoples the bond humanity has with our “mother earth,” much as St. Francis of Assisi portrayed in his Canticle of the Creatures....

Pope Francis denounces Amazon Synod critics as racist ROME, November 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Offering his thoughts on the Amazon Synod, Pope Francis excoriated certain “circles and sectors” who allegedly consider much of humanity a “lower-class entity” with scant “spiritual and intellectual life.” These unnamed individuals, the pope opined, hope out of racism or bigotry to withhold the Gospel. Pope Francis spoke with Italian journalist Gianni Valente during interviews conducted during the recent Amazon Synod. In talks gathered into a book in Italian titled Without Him We Can Do Nothing, the pontiff described his vision for the Church to...

Vatican newspaper features ‘Pachamama’ bowl used at Amazon Synod’s closing Mass VATICAN CITY, November 7, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― The offering of a mysterious bowl of plants believed to be linked to the pagan goddess Pachamama — that was received by Pope Francis during the closing Mass for the Amazon Synod and placed on the altar — was featured on the cover of the Spanish version of the Vatican’s official newspaper this week.  The cover of the Spanish edition of L’Osservatore Romano for November 1, 2019 presents a photograph of Marcivana Rodrigues Paiva, a member of the indigenous Satere-Mawe people...

Pope Francis: St. Paul announced Christ to ‘idol worshippers’ without attacking them Vatican City, Nov 6, 2019 / 08:15 am (CNA).- St. Paul announced Jesus Christ to “idol worshippers” in Athens without attacking them, but by building bridges, Pope Francis said Wednesday.“We also ask the Holy Spirit today to teach us to build bridges with culture, with those who do not believe or with those who have a creed different from ours. Always build bridges, always reach out, never aggression,” Pope Francis said Nov. 6 in St. Peter’s Square.“Let us ask him for his ability to delicately inculturate the message...

Statue of ancient god of child sacrifice put on display in Rome ROME, November 6, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – A reconstruction of a pagan idol who demanded child sacrifice was stationed at the entrance of Rome’s Colosseum as part of a secular historical exhibition. The presence of the idol raised particular concern among Catholics, as it was erected nine days before the Amazon Synod and the subsequent scandal over the veneration of the Pachamama idol at the Vatican. The statue of Moloch, worshipped by both the Canaanites and the Phoenicians, is part of an exhibit dedicated to Ancient Rome’s once-great rival, the city...

Abp Viganò: ‘The abomination of idolatrous rites has entered the sanctuary of God’ (Exclusive) ROME, November 5, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is calling for the re-consecration of St. Peter’s Basilica, in light of what he calls “the appalling idolatrous profanations” that have been committed in its walls through the veneration of the Pachamama statue. In a new interview on the Amazon Synod with LifeSiteNews, Archbishop Viganò has said: “The abomination of idolatrous rites has entered the sanctuary of God and has given rise to a new form of apostasy whose seeds, which have been active for a long time, are growing...

Viganò: Pachamama Activist ‘a Hero’ Whistleblower praises Alex Tschugguel for flinging Pachamama into the Tiber ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò is praising the Austrian man who threw Pachamama idols into the Tiber River as a "hero." "Like many others, including Bishop Athanasius Schneider and Prof. Roberto de Mattei, I think that this young man is a hero," the former papal nuncio-turned-whistleblower told Dr. Robert Moynihan in recent comments. "He is a person who wished to defend the First Commandment." Alexander Tschugguel revealed his identity Monday as the man in an Oct. 21 video who took several Pachamama figures from the church of Santa...