Synod of the Amazon

The Synod’s Dissenters

10/29/2019 at 2:34 PM By Kevin Edward White
by Dan Hitchens, National Catholic Register, October 25, 2019, Barack Obama announced in 2012 that religious liberty was “an inalienable right that is enshrined in our Constitution. As a citizen and as a Christian, I cherish this right.” Yet as president he encouraged his colleagues to pursue... read more
Archbishop Georg Gänswein

Archbishop Gaenswein: Claim Benedict XVI Opened Path for Women Deacons ‘Totally Absurd’

10/28/2019 at 6:10 PM By Kevin Edward White
The Pope Emeritus’ personal secretary firmly rejects Brazilian synod father’s claim that a 2009 papal decree paved the way for women deacons. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, October 26, 2019 Benedict XVI’s personal secretary has said a claim put forward yesterday by a... read more

Three Key Paragraphs of Amazon Synod’s Final Document

10/28/2019 at 9:03 AM By Kevin Edward White
Full texts of the propositions relating to the ordination of married men, a female diaconate and an Amazonian rite, their voting numbers, plus some brief observations.By Edward Pentin< National Catholic Register Here below are the texts of the three most controversial and discussed matters... read more

Bishops Ask Pope Francis to Allow Married Priests in the Amazon

10/26/2019 at 2:33 PM By Kevin Edward White
Vatican assembly also calls for further study on ordaining women as deacons By Francis X. Rocca, All Street Journal, October 26, 2019 VATICAN CITY—A gathering of bishops at the Vatican recommended on Saturday that Pope Francis loosen the celibacy requirement for priests in South... read more

From Sandro Magister: Those images really break your heart

10/26/2019 at 1:46 PM By Kevin Edward White
Sandro Magister received the following letter which he published on his site on October 22, 2019. Dear Magister, The fascination of Amazonian rites (more or less) and statues representing pregnant women may be enchanting for the Synod Fathers and those around them, but they are creating... read more
Leonardo Boff with the future and current Pope Francis (circled)

81-year-old liberation theologian is an architect of the Amazon Synod

10/25/2019 at 2:16 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Maika Hickson, LifeSite News, September 9, 2019 In recent weeks, there has been much discussion among solicitous Catholics about one of the inspirers of the upcoming October 6-27 Pan-Amazon Synod, Leonardo Boff. He is one of the founders of Liberation Theology and a co-author of Laudato Si,... read more

A Radical Convert’s Take on the Amazon Synod

10/25/2019 at 1:06 PM By Kevin Edward White
“Outside the Catholic Church one can have everything, except salvation.” —St. Augustine of Hippo By Amanda Evinger, National Catholic Register, October 23, 209 “This Sacred Council wishes to turn its attention firstly to the Catholic faithful. Basing itself upon Sacred Scripture... read more

At Synod, bishops denounce luxurious Western lifestyle

10/24/2019 at 3:27 PM By Kevin Edward White
Aware of the environmental and climatic urgency, Synod Fathers are concerned that the effects of deforestation will be irreversible. By Claire Lesegretain, LaCroix, October 24, 2019 Participants of the Synod of Bishops' special assembly on the Amazon came down heavily on the deforestation and... read more

Pachamama Sleeps with the Fishes

10/22/2019 at 1:05 PM By Kevin Edward White
[Dr. Robert Royal, editor-in-chief of The Catholic Thing, and president of the Faith & Reason Institute in Washington, D.C., was the featured speaker at our September 25 Catholic Citizens of Illinois annual banquet. His most recent book is A Deeper Vision: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition... read more
Cardinal Schönborn (Vienna)

Cardinal Schönborn: I Haven’t Read About Criticisms of the Synod

10/22/2019 at 12:10 PM By Kevin Edward White
The Archbishop of Vienna, a member of the drafting committee on the final document, also said he hadn’t reviewed evidence that the pro-abortion Ford Foundation is funding key synod groups. By Edward Pentin, National Catholic Register, October 21, 2019 Despite being one of the four members of... read more
Controversial statues about to be disposed of in the Tiber River (YouTube screen grab)

Controversial Amazon statues stolen from Rome church, dumped in river Philip Pullella

10/21/2019 at 6:24 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Philip Pullella, Reuters, October 21, 2019 VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Ultra-conservative Catholic militants admitted they stole statues they consider to be Amazon pagan idols from a church near the Vatican on Monday and dumped them from a bridge into the Tiber River. A video posted on... read more

Amazon Synod: Don’t Impose Old Agendas on the New World

10/19/2019 at 5:31 PM By Mary Anne Hackett
Prelates at the Vatican, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. (photo: Alessandra Tarantino.)

In synod’s married priests debate, somebody finally names elephant in the room

10/18/2019 at 11:58 AM By Kevin Edward White
Archbishop Roque Paloschi

Pro-Abortion Ford Foundation Major Funder of Key Synod Organizations

10/17/2019 at 6:27 PM By Kevin Edward White

Cardinal Hummes’s Radical Bedfellows

10/17/2019 at 5:51 PM By Kevin Edward White

Amazon prelate floats alternative to married clergy: Send some Roman priests home

10/16/2019 at 12:27 PM By Kevin Edward White

Dissenting note struck on married priests as solution for the Amazon

10/16/2019 at 12:11 PM By Kevin Edward White

The Amazonian “Paradigm”

10/15/2019 at 10:28 AM By Kevin Edward White

Cardinal Marc Ouellet Defends Priestly Celibacy Ahead of Pan-Amazon Synod

10/14/2019 at 6:00 PM By Kevin Edward White

A MISSION THAT BAPTIZED NO ONE IN FIFTY-THREE YEARS: THE FLAWED EVANGELIZATION MODEL OF THE PAN-AMAZONIAN SYNOD

10/12/2019 at 11:02 AM By Kevin Edward White