When Pope Francis’ paganism baffles even Catholics: When silly Catholics think they can reform the catholic church : The catholic church is rotten with pagan filth, you cannot reform it : Just get out of mystery Babylon
A simple , humble Jesuit, Give me a break!!! Since when have Jesuits been simple : Jorge Mario Bergoglio, now Pope Francis, known for simplicity and conservatism
Pope Francis is apologizing for the furtive removal of the carved fertility figures from a Rome church, and has announced they’ve been found and will be displayed in St. Peter’s Basilica for the Amazon Synod’s closing Mass.
“As bishop of this diocese, I apologize to those who have been offended” by this act of “theft,” said Pope Francis in the opening prayer for Friday’s afternoon general congregation, according to French media outlet i.media, present in the aula.
The pontiff noted that the statuettes — dubbed “Pachamama” by critics who claim she represents the pagan Mother Earth goddess — have been found by police and will appear in St. Peter’s Basilica Sunday for the closing Mass of the synod. “On Sunday those images will be in St. Peter’s Basilica at the closing Mass,” he announced at the conclusion of his remarks at the afternoon session.
Catholic Church Merging ‘Virgin’ Mary with Mother Earth Goddess, Pachamama
In the latest attempt to merge the ‘Virgin’ Mary with the Pachamama Mother Earth goddess of South American tribal culture, an organization belonging to the Franciscan Order depicted the two together in a Christmas portrait. When being called out for it by conservative Catholics who consider the Pachamama to be idolatrous, the Franciscans vigorously defended it.
The Vatican’s enchantment with the idolatrous image (the one on the left, not the idolatrous image on the right) goes back to Pope Francis, who hails from South America and brought an appreciation for the superstitious false goddess – which originated in the Andes Mountains – with him to the Vatican. The Catholic Church’s new infatuation with this naked, topless, pregnant earth goddess has been covered thoroughly by Pulpit & Pen and conservative Catholic publications like Lifesite News. We have reported on this phenomenon in the post, Vatican Priest Caught on Video Worshipping Pachamama Fertility Goddess and Pope Excuses Idol Controversy By Claiming Paul ‘Built a Bridge’ with Pagans. One conservative Catholic ran into the Vatican, pulled down the idols, and threw them in the river.
One down, like five million to go. But it’s a start.
According to Lifesite, the Franciscan holiday greeting included images of both Mary and the Pachamama in an obvious comparison of the two superstitious false goddesses (pictured above). “A Christmas greeting from Franciscans International (FI), a human rights group formed by various Franciscan orders, depicted the Andean earth-goddess “Pachamama” alongside the Blessed Virgin Mary.”
After receiving complaints about the blasphemous imagery, the Franciscan spokesman, Fr. Markus Heinze, responded the following way…
“Regarding your accusation of the message of the Christmas Card, I don’t want to go into details, I just don’t understand why it you see it as a sacrilege to bring Mary together with the pagan symbol for mother earth…
In a bizarre defense, Heinze claimed that the donkey, often pictured with Mary, represents pagans. Ergo, Ergo argues, it’s alright to picture Mary with the pagan Earth goddess. Yeah, it makes no sense to us, either.
Vatican Considers Pressing Charges Over ‘Pachamama’ Theft
by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • October 22, 2019
Priests, laity weigh in on display of controversial fertility figure
VATICAN (ChurchMilitant.com) - The Vatican is considering pressing criminal charges against the "new iconoclasts" who removed the pagan "Pachamama" statues from the Church of Santa Maria del Traspontina and dumped them in the River Tiber Monday morning. Vatican spokesmen have reacted with outrage after a local Italian newspaper carried a story on the unceremonious immersion of the fertility idols with the headline "Justice is done." REPAM, a Catholic network that advocates on behalf of Amazon peoples and is headed by Synod leader Cdl. Claudio Hummes, has condemned the act "of violence" in a statement published Monday. "We deeply regret and at the same time denounce that in recent days we have been victims of acts of violence, which reflect religious intolerance, racism, oppressive attitudes, which affect above all indigenous peoples, a refusal to build new roads for the renewal of our Church," the statement read.
REPAM (led by Cdl. Hummes, leader of the Amazon Synod, who invited a pro-infanticide Communist to the Vatican last week) has condemned the Pachamama drownings.https://t.co/B6NhkOt3CApic.twitter.com/fYTObqn6NA
Calling the traditionalist Catholics who removed the statues "the new iconoclasts," Andrea Tornielli cited the writings of the newly canonized Cdl. John Henry Newman to support the adoption of pagan elements. Quoting Newman's 1878 Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, he wrote:
The use of temples, and these dedicated to particular saints, and ornamented on occasions with branches of trees, incense, lamps and candles; votive offerings on recovery from illness; holy water, asylums; holy days and seasons, use of calendars, processions, blessings on the fields, sacerdotal vestments, the tonsure, the ring in marriage, turning to the east, images at a later date, perhaps the ecclesiastical chant, and the Kyrie Eleison, are all of pagan origin, and sanctified by their adoption into the church.
Saint Francis of Assisi is also showcased by the Vatican in defense of pagan idols: "An image of motherhood and the sacredness of life, a traditional symbol for indigenous peoples representing the bond with our 'mother earth,' as described by Saint Francis of Assisi in his Canticle of the Creatures, was thrown away with contempt in the name of tradition and doctrine," wrote Tornielli.
This piece by @Tornielli, the Editorial Director for the Vatican Dicastery for Communication, is very important, as it is a Vatican source which confirms that the indigenous statutes representing "life, fertility, Mother Earth" are indeed pagan #SinodoAmazonico#AmazonSynodhttps://t.co/94SxlmBcGE
Father Cor Mennen, lecturer in Canon Law at the Major Seminary of the Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch (Netherlands), disagrees, saying that what was done to the carved fertility figures was right. "But now that they are bringing their horrors into a Catholic Church and desacrating a holy place with an idol, such an action is more than justified," said Fr. Mennen. "After all, we must obey God more than those disturbed organizers of the synod." A British deacon also rejects Tornielli's arguments. "Those violently objecting to the righteous removal of the idols from a Vatican church can't get their stories straight," Deacon Nick Donnelly told Church Militant. "Expressing manufactured outrage, some claim that they represent Our Lady of the Amazon but Vatican officials have repeatedly insisted that they have no connection with the Blessed Virgin Mary but are effigies representing fertility, women or life," he said. "They don't realize that this is exactly what Pachamama idols represent."
"Others claim that the idols represent Mother Earth as described by St. Francis of Assisi in his Canticle to Brother Sun," Donnelly continued. "But St. Francis made it clear that it was a hymn about the Lord's creatures. Christians do not worship creatures, but those in Rome worshiped these idols with profound prostrations, by so doing proving that they are indeed idols. The more the critics of these young men object the more they prove they did the right thing."
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"It is ironic that the Vatican is using Newman's argument explaining how certain aspects of liturgy are of pagan origin, when their spokespersons have been repeatedly denying that the 'Pachamama' idols are pagan," one Old Testament scholar told Church Militant. "The fertility cult of Baal was the most pernicious and persistent problem faced by Israel," he explained. “The Israelites came to trust in Baal, rather than Yahweh, for fertility for their wives, cattle and land. As a result of the syncretism between Baal and Yahweh, temple worship became sexualized and the prophet Amos laments that "a man and his father go in to the same girl, so that God's holy name is profaned.'" Father Dwight Longenecker, author of 20 books on apologetics, the saints and Catholic culture, explained why the Amazon Synod statues are not Catholic. That's not the way Catholics use statues, he writes, elaborating on Jesus Christ as the image (icon) of the unseen God. Human beings are created in God's image and baptized Christians are unique images of Christ who is the image of God. Christ becomes the image of God in the incarnation. Therefore images of Jesus Christ are permitted because they are images of the Image. Because the Blessed Mother and all of the baptized are destined to be images of the Image it is also permissible to produce images of the Blessed Mother and the saints, he notes. Longenecker explains how "an authentic Catholic image is the representation of a real person who, by God's grace, has become remade into Christ's likeness."
An authentic Catholic image is the representation of a real person who, by God's grace, has become remade into Christ's likeness.Tweet
However, a "pagan image is not a real person" but "an idol" and "either a representation of a demon or a symbol of some sort of spirit or demigod." "Pachamama ain't Catholic because Pachamama is a false idol, a heathen substitute for the Blessed Virgin," and her veneration has turned the Amazon Synod at best into "a phony public relations exercise that will soon be forgotten," and "the promotion of a false gospel" at worst, he remarks. Venezuelan Cdl. Jorge Urosa Savino, archbishop emeritus of Caracas, also defended criticism of the idols. "The reason for the criticism is precisely because of the primitive nature and pagan appearance of the ceremony and the absence of openly Catholic symbols, gestures and prayers during the various gestures, dances and prostrations of that surprising ritual," he said.
Pope Francis blesses pagan Pachamama statue in Vatican Gardens
Last October 4, 2019, Pope Francis blessed the controversial pagan “Pachamama” statue in the Vatican gardens, as a special prelude to the opening of the Amazon Synod. Numerous bishops, cardinals and theologians condemned the ceremony.
Cardinal Burke went so far as saying that “diabolical forces” have entered St Peter’s Basilica. He supported the December 12 day of prayer and reparation organized by some faithful Catholics and clergy in France. Cardinal Burke likewise said: “Something very grave happened during the special assembly of the Bishops’ Synod for the Amazon region. An idol [Pachamama] was introduced into St Peter’s Basilica – the figure of a demonic force. Below are screen grabs of video footage of the entire proceeding, as well as various photos:
ROME, ITALY – OCTOBER 04: Pope Francis and Cardinal Cardinal Cláudio Hummes, Archbishop Emeritus of São Paulo, President of the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), sit in front a statue representing Pachamama (Mother Earth) as they celebrate the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi at the Vatican Gardens on October 04, 2019 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Giulio Origlia/Getty Images)
Vatican Gardens was witness to a strange sight – the Pope, as well as cardinals and bishops, seemingly venerating the pagan Pachamama statue.
Members of the clergy who attended the ceremony included Cardinal Luis Tagle from Manila, the new prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The ceremony began with a tree planting ritual, presided over by a Shaman.The shaman led the community in “prayer” in front of the pagan Pachamama statue.The people who attended the ritual could be seen prostrating themselves down in prayer before the soil, as well as the pagan Pachamama statue.Lots of bowing down in prayer – not in front of Jesus Christ, but before the Pachamama idol.The Shaman led the community in “prayer”, while the Pope and other cardinals looked on.After their “prayer”, the Shaman and her assistant walked over to the Pope, carrying the Pachamama statue.The Pachamama statue, seemingly in “procession”, on the way to the Pope.The Pope proceeded to bless the Shaman, who likewise gave the Holy Father a blessing.The Pope received the pagan Pachamama statue, and blessed it.
A smiling Pope Francis receives the pagan Pachamama statue in the Vatican gardens.
The Pagan Pachama statue remained in the Vatican gardens.
The Pachamama statue likewise made its way inside St Peter’s Basilica itself. The Pope, as well as other members of the clergy, led the community in prayers – not in front of the crucifix, but in front of the Pachamama statue.
