The "priest" part is because priests are few in that area (true) but excuse my cynicism if I think this is mainly a "wedge" to get married and eventually women priests. Personally, deacons and lay catechists already do a lot of the work of priests in both the US and the third world. So ordaining them after so many years? I wouldn't have a problem (the Eastern Catholics allow married men to become priests, but do not allow priests to marry).
But this is not really their agenda: It is to modernize the church into Anglican lite, to make it a NWO religion of mush by replacing Jesus with the green religion and the religion of radical gender theory.
but in Brazil they face a small problem: The people may not be with them.
it was organized by leftist bishops who loved ex president Lula (who was convicted of stealing a lot of money but never mind).
The Amazon Synod is pushing, as the intelligence report shows, the intention of the world Church to install a new "other", "second" priesthood, the secular political dimension to score also by social and environmental statements in the left-liberal mainstream, but also an intra-Brazilian dimension of political explosiveness.
This is how it works:
first it points out the problem of outsiders who push the meme "indigenous people of the Amazon" distorts who lives there, in order to preserve all the mineral and agricultural resources in the Amazon back into what they see is a pristine garden of Eden (it wasn't by the way: Before disease killed most of the people there, it was a highly populated agricultural breadbasket.. those who live there now are essentially the "preppers" who survived the epidemics).
second, it ignores who actually lives there:
The state of Amazon spreads over a gigantic expanse of more than 1.5 million square kilometers, but is inhabited by only four million people. According to the Brazilian statistics office, only 0.1 percent of them refer to themselves as members of indigenous peoples.
ah but the "greens" envision an Eden like environment and lifestyle and insist we listen to the wisdom of the elders.
Well, partly true, except one suspects the elders/shamans sometimes become bullying tyrants who lord over their small clans... as to their "wisdom": true, harmony is stressed, but when their wisdom includes infanticide and kidnapping women and children so they can have extra wives so one needs to realize that not everything is wonderful.
The alternative? Join the main society, but that leads to alcoholism and depression, and "loss" of the cultures, something that overlooks that most of the actual people involved manage to assimilate.
so who "owns" the Amazon? The small tribes who are dying and being pushed out or assimilated, or the great majority of people in the country, many of whom are hard working poor of mixed race who want to support their families?
We have this problem in Mindanao: The indigenous were pushed out into the mountains by the Muslims and now the Christians have migrated into the empty areas and are outnumbering the Muslims: So who owns the land? And here, priests and ministers trying to protect the land and the traditional people are sometimes killed too, just like those doing this in the Amazon.
but the key point is something that I stress is happening in South America, and the Philippines (and among Hispanics in the USA): That people are leaving the church of the political left to join a church where Jesus is Lord.
Bolsonaro is a Catholic, his wife is a free-church member. In the election campaign, the new president has relied mainly on the Protestant free churches. Behind it is a massive emigration movement from the Catholic Church to the Free Churches. The reason is the massive political and theological left pressure in the nation’s Catholic Church which has been developing for decades and has led to an alienation of the faithful from their Church.
actually, there is a need for environmentalist to push against greedy exploiters of the Amazon: For example, a major dam burst there a week or so ago and killed a lot of people and is poisoning the local water supply. The same company had a dam collapse a few years ago: And both dams failed due to "liquifaction" meaning they shouldn't have been built there.
presumably the dam was substandard, meaning no one was keeping an eye on it, and in poor countries, this often means someone was gifted so they wouldn't insist in checking those expensive safety regulations.
or maybe they were just careless:
On the other hand, even the EPA carelessness allowed a major toxic spill in Colorado.
and earthquakes and flooding can cause dams to collapse too: a worry here in the Philippines after every typhoon that our irrigation dams will collapse (and the small ones often do).
but making environmentalism/keeping people living the old fashioned "green" lifestyle (aka keeping the poor in poverty) the core content of religion without balancing it with the idea that God gave resources for people to use is nonsense: the need is for wise use of resources, and stop corruption that lets the greedy get away with destroying the environment/ producing shoddy goods.
But apparently no one bothers to read all those bible verses condemning the corrupt/ those who take bribes/ those who steal land from the poor to get rich.
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