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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 5, 2019 18:39:03 GMT
Vatican City, Oct 4, 2019 / 10:30 am (CNA).- Pope Francis witnessed an indigenous performance at a tree planting ceremony in the Vatican gardens Friday, during which people held hands and bowed before carved images of pregnant women, one of which reportedly represented the Blessed Virgin Mary. A group of people, including Amazonians in ritual dress, as well people in lay clothes and a Franciscan brother, knelt and bowed in a circle around images of two pregnant women who appeared to be semi-clothed, in the presence of the pope and members of the curia. After witnessing the ritual, Pope Francis set aside his prepared remarks, opting instead to offer the Our Father without comment. The ceremony in the Vatican gardens -- organized by the Global Catholic Climate Movement, Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network, and the Order of Franciscan Friars Minor -- was described as a celebration of the feast of St. Francis and the opening of the Synod of bishops on the Pan-Amazon region Oct. 6-27. Participants sang and held hands while dancing in a circle around the images, in a dance resembling the “pago a la tierra,” a traditional offering to Mother Earth common among indigenous peoples in some parts of South America. No explanation was provided by the event organizers as to why the dance was performed for the Feast of St. Francis or what it symbolized. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/indigenous-ritual-performed-in-vatican-gardens-for-popes-tree-planting-ceremony-60523
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 5, 2019 18:39:57 GMT
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Post by barb43 on Oct 5, 2019 20:13:37 GMT
"integral ecology", eh? What in the world is that? Apparently integral ecology" really is a "thing". This is from Pope Francis' encyclical on the environment: www.ncronline.org/blogs/faith-and-justice/integral-ecology-everything-connectedMy personal opinion is that the Pope speaks out of both sides of him mouth in this part 4 of his encyclical. It sounds like we should respect life, but doesn't oppose abortion; we should encourage our youth, but doesn't say how; notes that the distinctions between male and female genders should not be eliminated; and so on. And then it ends with the last snippet above.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 6, 2019 1:06:03 GMT
Critics accuse Amazon synod of ‘poly-demonism’
ROME - In the first of many counter-events to this month’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, key critics of Pope Francis blasted him for allegedly promoting widespread heresy in the Church, saying his agenda for the 3-week gathering is “demonic” and calling on him to resign.
“With all respect owed to the ecclesiastical authorities, I accuse all those who approved or who will approve the Instrumentum Laboris of the Amazon (synod) of polytheism, or more specifically, poly-demonism, because as the psalms say, all divinities of the gentiles are demons,” Italian journalist Roberto de Mattei said, speaking at a high-profile event in Rome.
Titled “New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology,” the Oct. 6-27 synod will draw some 300 Catholic leaders from the Pan-Amazonian region to discuss issues including the rights of indigenous populations, land rights, migration, corruption, the Church’s missionary efforts in the area, local liturgy and sustainable development.
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Post by barb43 on Oct 6, 2019 1:55:11 GMT
This is an eye-opening article. To me, it is breath-taking to see prominent people criticizing the Pope, and pointing out what is wrong with Francis' leadership.
cruxnow.com/vatican/2019/10/04/critics-accuse-amazon-synod-of-poly-demonism/
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 7, 2019 2:28:21 GMT
Pope urges conservatives to be open to changes in Church
At a Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica, Pope Francis opened an assembly of bishops - mostly from the Amazon - to discuss the future of the Roman Catholic Church in that region… including the possibility of introducing married priests.
"If everything continues as it was, if we spend our days content that 'this is the way things have always been done', then the gift vanishes, smothered by the ashes of fear and concern for defending the status quo.”
One of the most contentious topics of the three-week synod, is whether to allow older married "proven men" with families and a strong standing in local communities to be ordained as priests in the Amazon.
The synod will also discuss environmental protection - at a time when fires in Brazil are devastating the Amazon rainforest. On Sunday - the Pope linked the fires blazing in the rainforest to the destructive legacy of colonialism, and said indigenous cultures had to be respected.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 20, 2019 17:20:57 GMT
Pro-Abortion Ford Foundation Major Funder of Key Synod Organizations
VATICAN CITY — A missionary council for indigenous peoples run by the Brazilian bishops’ conference has received almost $2 million from the pro-abortion Ford Foundation since 2006, a Brazilian journalist has revealed.
Bernardo Küster, who publishes largely through YouTube and on the website OsLeigos.com, said two other organizations participating in the synod have also received funding from the foundation, which has actively lobbied for abortion rights and gender ideology.
All are members of the Pan-Amazon Ecclesial Network (REPAM), an organization set up by the bishops’ conference of Latin America (CELAM) and Caritas, which has played the leading role in organizing the Amazon Synod that runs until Oct. 27.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 20, 2019 17:23:50 GMT
Vatican downplays funding from pro-abortion Ford Foundation as tensions rise in Amazon Synod
ROME, October 19, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Amazon Synod representatives on Friday sought to downplay concerns over the pro-abortion Ford Foundation providing multi-million-dollar grants to key synod groups, while LifeSite has learned that news of the funding caused tensions to rise inside the synod.
At Friday’s synod press briefing, LifeSite asked Bishop Mário Antônio da Silva of Roraima, vice-president of the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference, and Mauricio López Oropeza, executive secretary of the Pan Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), the network tasked with planning and executing the synod, their thoughts on synod groups receiving funding from the pro-abortion Ford Foundation.
The question was a follow-up to the National Catholic Register’s Oct. 17 report that a missionary council for indigenous people (CIMI) which co-founded REPAM and has close ties to the Brazilian Bishops’ Conference, received $2 million in grants from the American far-left foundation.
A look at the Ford Foundation website also reveals that Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, has been on its Board of Trustees since 2010.
Bishop da Silva told reporters that, “as Christians and Catholics, we defend life from conception to natural death, so we’re against abortion.”
He said the Church in Brazil is therefore “of course concerned about the way investments that come to various entities are used,” but said the funds received by CIMI and REPAM for the Amazon are “used to promote life” and to “promote the lives of women, children, pregnant women, families and the elderly.”
The vice-president of the Brazilian bishops’ conference said he was unaware of “donations made by various foundations” such as the Ford Foundation but said organizations like CIMI “promote life.”
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Post by barb43 on Oct 20, 2019 20:27:26 GMT
I wondered if the Ford Foundation was a brainchild of Henry Ford, and sure enough, Edsel Ford and Henry Ford started the Ford Foundation in 1936 with the mission of advancing human welfare. If it was ever a good thing, it has certainly gone off the rails.
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 21, 2019 16:07:18 GMT
Amazon Synod Idols Thrown into Tiber River in Rome
Breaking news from Rome: Some courageous soul has decided there’s been enough dialogue and bridge building and it’s now time for some action: The disgusting Pachamama idols that had popped up in the church of Santa Maria in Traspontina and that Francis had blessed in the Vatican Gardens on Oct. 4 in connection with the ongoing Amazon Synod, have been removed by an as-yet unidentified individual and cast into the Tiber river.
Video footage of the heroic act has been made available:
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 21, 2019 16:44:26 GMT
Same story confirmed from a more official news source: Amazon synod's controversial carved figures thrown into Tiber RiverRome, Italy, Oct 21, 2019 / 08:15 am (CNA).- A video uploaded to YouTube on Oct. 21 shows two men taking several wooden figures of a nude pregnant woman from a church near the Vatican and throwing them into the Tiber River. The figures have been present at several events connected to the Vatican’s Amazon synod, and have been the subject of considerable controversy: some have characterized them as images of the Blessed Virgin Mary, others as the indigenous religious figure “Pachamama,” while Vatican spokesmen have characterized them more vaguely as symbols of “life.” From the four-minute video it appears the event took place around dawn Oct. 21, when a person holding the video camera appears to enter the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina. The church is in the immediate area of the Vatican, and has been the location of events at which the controversial carved figure of a woman has been present. Inside the church, a man is seen entering a side chapel and then leaving with a figure. The two people then exit the church and the video shows them carrying five of the carved images of the woman toward Castel Sant’Angelo. The men throw the figures from the side of the Sant’Angelo bridge into the Tiber River. www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/amazon-synods-controversial-carved-figures-thrown-into-tiber-river-45142
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 21, 2019 16:46:54 GMT
Given that the church that the images were removed from is in the Vatican complex, I have to wonder where were all of the security personnel?
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Post by barb43 on Oct 21, 2019 19:31:15 GMT
Given that the church that the images were removed from is in the Vatican complex, I have to wonder where were all of the security personnel? I wondered the same thing, plus aren't there security cameras everywhere there? I would think it should be easy to catch these 2 perpetrators ... unless this was an inside job, of some sort. - ? -
Still, however it came to occur, I'm not really unhappy about it (regardless of the fact I don't support theft).
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Post by M. Hawbaker on Oct 21, 2019 19:42:38 GMT
The men behind the action have issued a statement, saying: “This was done for only one reason: Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, his Blessed Mother, and everybody who follows Christ, are being attacked by members of our own Church. We do not accept this! We do not longer stay silent! We start to act NOW! Because we love humanity, we cannot accept that people of a certain region should not get baptized and therefore are being denied entrance into heaven. It is our duty to follow the words of God, like our holy Mother did. There is not second way of salvation. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat!” www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-controversial-amazon-synod-statue-siezed-and-thrown-into-the-tiber-river-full-video
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Post by barb43 on Oct 21, 2019 19:55:13 GMT
“Christus vincit! Christus regnat! Christus imperat!”
– and in case your Latin is weak as mine is, hehe, here's the translation:
“Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands”
Amen.
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