EcclesIsSaved blog says Sherlock Holmes was on the case:
After offering us a humble glass of indigenous Amazon water, Pope Francis explained the problem to us. "Mr Holmes, only you can help us. Last night thieves broke into the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, removed four idols of the Blessed Pachamama (here the Holy Father knelt down and kissed the ground) and threw them into the Tiber."...
"Do you not have replacement idols?" asked Holmes. "I saw traces of Brazilian sawdust on the floor when I came in, which suggest that an idol-making factory is somewhere nearby...
"Oh yes, we have a whole shed full of the idols," explained Francis. "We shall be sending one to every parish in the world. But it is important for the prestige of the Synod that we recover the missing idols and place them in St Peter's Basilica."
Holmes and I went down to the Tiber bridge from which Pachamama had received her early bath - now renamed St Pachamama's Bridge - and looked for clues. Would the idols have sunk into the mud, or would they be drifting out to sea, like a small flotilla, wending their way back to the shores of South America? There were no clues, and the crime seemed to be motiveless. What Catholic could possibly object to the demotion of the Trinity, the Virgin Mary and the saints, and their replacement by a smelly old lump of wood?
Only the worst extremist Genghis Khan-following fascist sedevacantists, as little Austen might put it.
the dirty little secret is that these "idols" weren't traditional idols, but carved by a local artist who lives in a South American city.
and the story keeps changing. NO, nobody bowed to idols (who do you believe, the Vatican spokesperson or your lying eyes?)
And the arguments whether or not they symbolize the Virgin Mary or Mother Gaia or the bloody female deity of the Amazon region keeps changing too. This of course is simply another example of "gaslighting" and manipulation, which describes the entire fake synod which is being used to push an agenda to destroy Catholicism.
By pushing confusion, if you criticize them, they "morph" what you are criticizing into something else to prove you are wrong.
Ecoreligion is the next agenda being pushed on ordinary folks.
And coming soon, a film inspired by a visit to Cuba (where I don't believe is in the Amazon basin, but never mind): via Netflix;
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Excuse my cynicism, but I have spent quite a few years living and working with many different cultures.
My question is why this fake use of a mythical "Amazon" culture?
Answer: Because few people are experts on that culture, so you can project your own ideas on the people who live there.
Hello! There are many tribes in the Amazon, and many of them have converted to Pentecostal Christianity in the past 20 years... but no, no Christian pastors are being asked by the Vatican on how to evangelize these isolated tribes.
The church has been around for 2000 years, and has managed to preach to a lot of different cultures.
but a lot of cultures aren't isolated enough, so if some "expert" decided to push this agenda, those dang locals might just get out their cellphones and tweet a correction.
I mean, you even have cellphones in primitive villages of darkest Africa (/s), so you couldn't get away with an African synod without some non PC pastor tweeting a correction, and as for Asia: here even my maid has a iPhone.
True, the Vatican has managed to discourge a lot of Asian Christians: they aren't backing the Hong Kong protest of course, and thanks to the pedophile of Washington DC (i.e. McCarrick), the Chinese Catholic church has been destroyed by placing it under the rule of Emperor Xi.
But again, there is a vital and growing Christian community in China that could instruct the Vatican on how to evangelize the Chinese....
and if you are into multiculturalism, why not use the example of the 2000 years old Christianity of the East? (not just Asian Roman Catholics in India or the Philippines, but the churches in the Middle East, including the Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox, and Syrian Christianity) ?
Why not use these churches as an example on how to evangelize Catholicism? Because a lot of these people actually believe in Jesus: indeed, many have even been martyred in recent years.
and the dirty little secret of the Amazon synod is that it is about eco religion and destroying traditional Catholic customs and beliefs that stand in the way of a fancy new world order. I mean, follow the money...
but we Filipinos don't have to go to Rome or the Amazon to find pagan idol worship.
Here's a magazine being sold at the local pharmacy near the Palenke, where the poor shop.
Yup.
Yup. Dimples Romana's standout meal is very Catholic, because nothing says "help the poor and homeless to eat" as much as having an actress promote a gourmet meal.
and then they wonder why 20 percent of locals have joined Evangelical or pentecostal churches, and the numbers are growing.
(Joy's rice business has outreaches to feed the street people in her area of Bulacan, as part of the outreach from her evangelical church).
Sigh.
Pray for our good priests here, who actually do preach the gospel and care for the poor.
and if I stay Catholic, it is because of the Eucharist.
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update one: Yes, I know: a Filipino priest has a cooking show on EWTN: well, here Jesus is Kuya and God is Papa and then there is Mama Mary, and so yes, family get togethers and parties and fiestas sort of include them as part of the family.
Since Jesus' first miracle was at a wedding party, and since Catholicism sees God in everything good, it is fitting. (My complaint is that the magazine is yuppie oriented self help stuff and not about how we serve God in our daily lives).
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update 2: no idols, just a lowly house plant was offered in St Peters.
Gloria TV says:
(reporter Damian) Thompson further learned that “many bishops, including some cardinals, will not feel able to attend the Synod's closing Mass if the [Pachamama] statues are on display”
the conclusion of the "meeting" was pre determined, just as in previous synods. You chose who will attend to those who will cooperate, and then push the agenda through and voila, it's the holy spirit so shut up.
Edward Pentin has a whole book about how this was done in the "Synod of the family" so this type of cynical manipulation is getting sort of old for those of us who actually believe what Christ taught.
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