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Amazon Bishops Pledge Poverty, Spurning Plastics and Taking the Bus
Crux ^ | 10/20/19 | Inés San Martín

Posted on 10/22/2019 5:51:21 PM PDT by marshmallow

ROME - Some 40 bishops participating in the Synod of Bishops on the Amazon gathered Sunday in the Catacombs of St. Domitilla in Rome to renew a pact signed in 1965 by 42 prelates at the Second Vatican Council calling for a poor church.

Though both “Pacts of the Catacombs” were inspired by a commitment to building a poor church for the poor, there are striking differences between the 1965 original and the one signed this time around, including length.

This week’s pact is rooted in the Amazon, and some elements may be harder to embrace by the universal Church, as the original declaration was intended to be.

Titled “Pact of the Catacombs for the Common Home, for a Church with an Amazonian face, Poor and Servant, Prophetic and Samaritan,” Sunday’s declaration among other points calls for recognition of the “real diakonia of a great number of women who today direct communities in the Amazon.”

Another difference is that this one was signed by lay people, including women. As one woman went up to sign, she referred to herself as a “synod mother,” a parallel to bishops participating in the Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon who are called “synod fathers.”

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1 posted on 10/22/2019 5:51:22 PM PDT by marshmallow
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To: marshmallow

Wouldn’t it be better to preach the gospel to the people of the Amazon, rather than indulge their primitive proclivities?


2 posted on 10/22/2019 5:54:13 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

How does this impress God?

Silly boys...


3 posted on 10/22/2019 5:56:32 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: BenLurkin
No Straws !
4 posted on 10/22/2019 6:07:35 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: marshmallow

LOL, one of the most fatuous, hypocritical statements ever made by a bunch of comfy lifetime-tenure leftists. They should be floating down the Tiber with their beloved Pachamama


5 posted on 10/22/2019 6:17:01 PM PDT by livius
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To: marshmallow

LOL, one of the most fatuous, hypocritical statements ever made by a bunch of comfy lifetime-tenure leftists. They should be floating down the Tiber with their beloved Pachamama


6 posted on 10/22/2019 6:18:28 PM PDT by livius
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To: marshmallow
Why don't they start by selling the Papal Tiara and use the proceeds to educate the poor on finance and business?

There is tons of gold in the Vatican.

7 posted on 10/22/2019 6:22:23 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: marshmallow
Why don't they start by selling the Papal Tiara and use the proceeds to educate the poor on finance and business?

There is tons of gold in the Vatican.

8 posted on 10/22/2019 6:22:24 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: marshmallow
Why don't they start by selling the Papal Tiara and use the proceeds to educate the poor on finance and business?

There is tons of gold in the Vatican.

9 posted on 10/22/2019 6:22:24 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: marshmallow
Why don't they start by selling the Papal Tiara and use the proceeds to educate the poor on finance and business?

There is tons of gold in the Vatican.

10 posted on 10/22/2019 6:22:25 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: marshmallow

Problem is that these heretics are out in the open, not in the catacombs, with the protection of Francis.

It’s Archbishop Vigano, Fr. Paul Kalchik (the Chicago priest who let his parishoners burn a homo flag found in his sacristy and is now being hunted like a dog by franciscardinal, Cupcake Cupich), the two Christeros who threw the pagan pachamama idols into the Tiber, who are now relegated to the catacombs, being hunted by a dictator pope.


11 posted on 10/22/2019 6:37:47 PM PDT by ebb tide (I am Christeros. I am Michael Del Bufalo.)
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To: marshmallow

And they seem to be spurning the teachings of our Saviour, Jesus, and both the Old and New Testaments.


12 posted on 10/22/2019 6:42:30 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: wildcard_redneck

4 times for your comment?


13 posted on 10/22/2019 6:58:12 PM PDT by Bigg Red (WWG1WGA)
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To: marshmallow

What’s the Vatican response to this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3787834/posts
and this;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787853/posts
and this
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3787838/posts


14 posted on 10/22/2019 9:02:52 PM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting fobills are nr the record hoping some might read and pass around)
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To: Bigg Red

“4 times for your comment?”

It was the site not me.


15 posted on 10/23/2019 6:17:56 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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