Synod, Pan-Amazonian

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

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
Pope Paul VI’s Evangelii Nuntiandi introduced the concept of the new evangelisation.

Short memories on key synods

07/04/2020 at 9:12 PM By Kevin Edward White
By George Weigel, The Catholic Weekly, July 4, 2020 Given that he was one of the principal planners and prominent leaders of last October’s special Synod on Amazonia, Cardinal Claudio Hummes OFM, is understandably enthusiastic about the results of that exercise. Indeed, the enthusiasm of... read more
Bishop Athanasius Schneider

Bishop Schneider analyzes Pope’s Amazon text: ‘a glimmer of hope’ despite deficiencies

02/20/2020 at 3:05 PM By Kevin Edward White
Although Querida Amazonia’s stance on priestly celibacy comes as a relief, the document contains ‘lamentable doctrinal ambiguities and errors,’ Bishop Schneider writes in exclusive in-depth analysis By Diane Montagna, LifeSiteNews, February 19, 2020 In a new in-depth analysis of the... read more

Pope shares with U.S. bishops his frustration with reaction to Amazon text

02/17/2020 at 9:15 PM By Kevin Edward White
Catholic News Service, February 13, 2020 ROME - Pope Francis told a group of U.S. bishops that, like them, he is accused of not being courageous or not listening to the Holy Spirit when he says or does something someone disagrees with - like not mentioning married priests in his document on the... read more

Pope Francis Sets Aside Proposal on Married Priests

02/13/2020 at 5:49 PM By Kevin Edward White
The decision, in a letter on Catholic life in remote Amazon areas, is a victory for conservative forces who had warned that change there would put the church on a slippery slope. By Jason Horowitz and Elisabetta Povoledo, New York Times, February 12, 2020 VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has... read more

Amazonia Dreaming

02/13/2020 at 12:27 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

The Pope Is Still Catholic

02/13/2020 at 11:08 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Michael Ware, Crisis Magazine, February 13, 2020 Yesterday, the Holy Father did something completely unexpected: nothing at all. In his long-awaited exhortation on the Amazon Synod, Querida Amazonia, we find the clearest insight into Pope Francis’s thinking on the vocations crisis, both... read more

Vatican officials: ‘Querida Amazonia’ is magisterium, Amazon synod’s final doc is not

02/13/2020 at 10:38 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Hannah Brockhaus, Catholic News Agency, February 12, 2020 Pope Francis' post-synodal exhortation on the Amazon is part of the Church's ordinary magisterium -- that is officially a kind of Church teaching -- while the final document of the Vatican’s 2019 Amazon synod is not, Cardinal... read more
Cardinal Reinhard Marx

Cardinal Marx says married priests still up for debate: ‘By no means is it off the table’

02/12/2020 at 9:41 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Martin Burger, LifeSiteNews, February 12, 2020 Cardinal Marx and Catholic organizations in Germany insists the allowance of married priests is still open for discussion after publication of the Pope’s Amazon Synod exhortation. BONN, GermanyCardinal Reinhard Marx has emphasized that the... read more

Cardinal Müller: ‘Querida Amazonia’ Is a Document of Reconciliation

02/12/2020 at 6:07 PM By Kevin Edward White
National Catholic Reporter, February 12, 2020 “The entire letter is written in a personal and attractive tone. The Successor of Peter [wants] to win all Catholics and Christians of other denominations, but also all people of good will, for a positive development of this region," so that “all... read more

Francis declines to answer Amazon synod’s requests for married priests, women ministers

02/12/2020 at 10:16 AM By Kevin Edward White
Pope Francis is with U.S. bishops during their “ad limina” visits to the Vatican Feb. 10, 2020.

U.S. bishops ask pope about Amazon synod, discuss range of issues

02/11/2020 at 5:22 PM By Kevin Edward White

Francis’ response to Amazon synod coming Feb. 12, Vatican announces

02/07/2020 at 10:29 PM By Kevin Edward White

Secret Vatican letter to bishops: Pope’s final doc on Amazon Synod coming within a month

01/16/2020 at 12:49 PM By Kevin Edward White

Cardinal Sarah letters prove Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI knowingly collaborated on celibacy book.

01/14/2020 at 12:58 PM By Kevin Edward White

Openly gay priest claims Pope Francis affirmed his homosexuality in private phone call

01/03/2020 at 6:15 PM By Kevin Edward White
St. Catherine of Sienna

Catholic laity beg Pope Francis to honor Mother Mary, not Mother Earth in open letter

12/12/2019 at 9:49 AM By Kevin Edward White

The Political Pan-Amazon Synod?

11/16/2019 at 12:57 PM By Kevin Edward White

Former vicar general of Rome: Ordaining married men in Amazon a ‘wrong choice’

11/07/2019 at 2:33 PM By Kevin Edward White