[Catholic Caucus] Remaking the Church

Church Militant ^ | September 24, 2019 | Stephen Wynne

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[Catholic Caucus] Remaking the Church

Amazon Synod in the works since earliest days of Francis' papacy

One month after his election, Pope Francis began laying the groundwork to refashion the Universal Church — to remake the face of Roman Catholicism around the world.

Days after becoming pope, Francis met with Peruvian Abp. Pedro Barreto Jimeno and Brazilian Cardinal-designate Cláudio Hummes to discuss setting up a Church network focused on the Amazon.

Cdl. Pedro Barreto Jimeno

That meeting put into motion the plan which eventually produced the Amazon Synod — a plan which has unfolded over the past six years.

In a stunning turn of events, Abp. Barreto later remarked that Francis would back liberation theology's agenda for the Amazon, telling supporters: "Expect things that you never expected ... expect profound changes."

In a July 2013 visit to Brazil, Francis told the country's bishops to work toward training indigenous clergy and providing priests suited to local conditions.

Six months later in Peru, the Pope officially called for "a church with an Amazonian face."

In April 2014, Francis floated the idea of married Amazonian priests to Brazilian Bp. Erwin Kräutler, and invited Kräutler to help him write his upcoming environmental encyclical Laudato Si.

In July, Vatican whistleblower Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò called the synod the 'triumph of a 60-year-old plan.'Tweet

Three years later, in October 2017, following the publication of the encyclical, Francis convoked the Amazon Synod.

At a pre-synod meeting in January 2018, Francis declared the Church should allow indigenous peoples to recover "their native cultures, languages, traditions, rights and spirituality."

In July, Vatican whistleblower Abp. Carlo Maria Viganò called the synod the "triumph of a 60-year-old plan" to bring into the heart of the Church a "new way of thinking" — a thinking "rooted in elements of Liberation Theology ... containing strands of Marxism" and "little interested in traditional Catholic liturgy or morality or theology."

This plan, Viganò warned, has achieved one of its supreme goals — a Jesuit on the throne of St. Peter.

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In a stunning turn of events, Abp. Barreto later remarked that Francis would back liberation theology's agenda for the Amazon, telling supporters: "Expect things that you never expected ... expect profound changes."

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[Buckeye McFrog]

If Pope Benedict is ever going to reveal to us the REAL story about why he stepped down, he had best do it soon. His time on this Earth is growing short, and we desperately need to know the truth.

[Missouri gal]

The schism that is coming is like a steam locomotive running out of control. Francis and his cronies on one side and faithful Catholics on the other. The “lavender mafia” plans to bludgeon the Church with false doctrines and then no doctrine. Francis showed with the Augustinian scandal that he thinks he can just laicize or excommunicate anyone who refuses to go along. His mistake is that he doesn't have that authority without due process, a matter for which he has no patience. His second mistake is that he needs money for his plans, and has already more than alienated his biggest money source: American Catholics. We can infer that he is already hurting for cash. Patience, faithful Catholics!