Synod, Pan-Amazonian

Lost in a Dark Wood: Final Thoughts on the Amazon Synod

11/03/2019 at 2:53 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 Burke: Church is ‘experiencing one of the greatest crises … she has ever known’

11/02/2019 at 12:29 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Lianne Laurence, LifeSiteNews, November 1, 2019 Cardinal Raymond Burke told a sold-out Catholic conference in Detroit last weekend that “there is no question that the Church is currently experiencing one of the greatest crises which she has ever known.” “Today perhaps as at no time... read more

There’s a Pony in Here Somewhere: A Post-Synodal Reflection

11/01/2019 at 9:15 AM By Kevin Edward White
By George Weigel, First Things, October 28, 2019 According to his longtime consigliere, Edwin Meese, President Ronald Reagan must have told the “pony joke” at least a thousand times. The story involves the super-optimistic child whose parents take him to a psychiatrist, along with his... read more

Italian bishops’ mission org publishes ‘prayer to Pachamama’ in official booklet

10/31/2019 at 9:57 AM By Kevin Edward White
By: Jeanne Smits, LifeSiteNews, October 29, 2019 A prayer to Pachamama, the “Mother Earth” venerated by indigenous tribes such as the Aymara and Quechua in the Andes but also in the northern plains of Argentina and in Brazil near Bolivia and Peru, has been found in an official booklet of... read more

Vatican News alters interview of Amazon Synod’s key organizer approving ‘pagan worship’

10/30/2019 at 11:47 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Maike Hickson, LifeSiteNews, October 29, 2019 Vatican News, the information system of the Holy See, has scrubbed an interview with Fr. Paulo Suess, one of the key authors of the controversial Amazon Synod's working document, in which he defended the pagan ceremonies that took place in the... read more

Were ‘Pachamama’ statues absent from Amazon Synod’s closing Mass after bishops’ resistance?

10/30/2019 at 11:27 AM By Kevin Edward White
October 28, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – To the surprise of many observers, the “Pachamama” statues were not present in St. Peter's Basilica during the closing Mass of the Amazon Synod on 27 October. Sources in Rome overheard bishops in the synod hall saying that they would not participate at the... read more

Pray for a Miracle — An Initial Reaction to the Close of the Synod

10/29/2019 at 2:49 PM By Kevin Edward White
Pray for an apostolic exhortation that glorifies and lifts up Jesus Christ as the only way to salvation. Msgr Charles Pope, National Catholic Register, October 28, 2019 I, like many of you, feel overwhelmed by the events of the past month in Rome. Many an evening, late into the night, I have... read more

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

Bishop Schneider condemns Pachamama statue as ‘new golden calf’ in open letter

10/26/2019 at 3:10 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Diane Montagna, LifeSite News, October 26, 2019 ROME, October 26, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Athanasius Schneider has today issued an open letter forcefully condemning the use of the Pachamama statue at the Amazon Synod in the Vatican. In the Oct. 26 open letter, Bishop Schneider is... 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
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

A Radical Convert’s Take on the Amazon Synod

10/25/2019 at 1:06 PM By Kevin Edward White

At Synod, bishops denounce luxurious Western lifestyle

10/24/2019 at 3:27 PM By Kevin Edward White

Comfort Is Killing the Church

10/23/2019 at 10:12 AM By Kevin Edward White

Pachamama Sleeps with the Fishes

10/22/2019 at 1:05 PM By Kevin Edward White
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
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