Idolatry

Why Pachamamas have no place in the Church

05/25/2023 at 5:32 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Gavin Ashenden, Catholic Herald, May 25 2023 The podcast Merely Catholic gives me the opportunity to meet people of real calibre and interest, as well as discovering things I was unaware of. For this week’s edition of the Catholic Herald podcast I had a fascinating discussion with... read more

In Making an Idol of Physical Safety, Catholic Schools Are Failing

02/22/2022 at 10:57 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Alexandra Sullivan, Crisis Magazine, February 22, 2022 Over the past two years, our society has created an idol out of physical health and safety, protecting them at all costs. But Jesus tells us Himself: “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who... read more

Pachamama Image Used as Monstrance in Mexican parish

07/04/2021 at 9:18 PM By Kevin Edward White
Pachamama is a deity of the Andes. During the 2019 Amazon Synod it was presented as if it belonged to the Amazonian cosmovision. By David Ramos/CNA, July 3, 2021 ZAPOPAN, Mexico — The “pachamama” or “mother earth” image which accompanied various activities during the 2019 Amazon... read more

In new biography, Benedict XVI laments modern ‘anti-Christian creed’

05/05/2020 at 1:58 PM By Kevin Edward White
Catholic News Agency, May 4, 2020 Modern society is formulating an “anti-Christian creed” and punishing those who resist it with “social excommunication,” Benedict XVI has said in a new biography, published in Germany May 4. “Modern society is in the process of formulating an... read more

Vatican debates about Pachamama rites refuse to fade

01/13/2020 at 2:17 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Terry Mattingly, Contributing columnist, January 11, 2020 The scene during the Vatican’s Christmas concert was simple and even childlike, as a young woman from Latin America instructed participants — including smiling cardinals — to fold their arms over their chests. But this was... read more
Papal Almoner, Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, is pictured with Action and Spin Time Labs representatives.

Vatican caught up in scandal over ‘queer’ rave in Rome

01/07/2020 at 10:25 PM By Kevin Edward White
The wild party took place in the building where a papal representative reconnected the electricity last May. By Diane Montagna, LifeSite News, January 7, 2020 ROME — The Vatican has been caught up in a scandal over a drug-fueled New Year’s Eve party in Rome attended by minors and... read more
Archbishop Vigano

Message from His Excellency Archbishop Viganò to Alexander Tschugguel

12/04/2019 at 6:47 PM By Kevin Edward White
Dear Alexander, and all those who have gathered to recite the Holy Rosary outside St. Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna, Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Virgin Mary be with you! We have seen idolatry penetrate into the Temple of God and claim for itself the adoration that is due exclusively... read more

‘Act of true charity’: Bishop Schneider praises initiative calling Pope to repent for Pachamama idolatry

11/16/2019 at 12:25 PM By Kevin Edward White
[Bishop Athanasius Schneider was the featured speaker at our 2017 Catholic Citizens of Illinois Annual Banquet.–Ed.] By Maike Hickson, LifeSite News, November 15, 2019 Bishop Athanasius Schneider, the auxiliary bishop of Astana, Kazakhstan, praised as an “act of true charity” a... read more

Vatican newspaper features ‘Pachamama’ bowl used at Amazon Synod’s closing Mass

11/08/2019 at 10:59 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSite News, November 7, 2019 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... read more