Pope Francis Establishes Ecclesial Body to Implement Controversial Amazon Synod

LifeSite News ^ | 10/20/21 | Michael Haynes

[marshmallow]

The ‘Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon’ now has to submit its statutes to the Pope for approval, as it fulfils the mission of the Amazon Synod.

VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — Pope Francis has canonically erected the “Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon” to promote the agenda of the Amazon Synod and continue to act as the “testing ground” for changes in the wider Church, possibly including female deacons or married priests.

In an October 9 audience, Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, was given papal approval of the new “Ecclesial Conference” envisaged by the 2019 Amazon Synod.

Paragraph 115 of the final document of the Amazon Synod called for a “synodal structure” for the Amazon, which would allow it to develop its own regional form of Catholicism and incorporate its native traditions into its religious practices.

The final document reads:

We propose the creation of a Bishops’ organism that promotes synodality among the churches of the region, helps to express the Amazonian face of this Church and continues the task of finding new paths for the evangelizing mission, especially incorporating the proposal of integral ecology, thus strengthening the physiognomy of the Church in the Amazon. It would be a permanent and representative Bishops’ organism that promotes synodality in the Amazon region, connected with CELAM, with its own structure, in a simple organization and also connected with REPAM. So constituted, it can be the effective instrument in the territory of the Latin American and Caribbean Church for taking up many of the proposals that emerged in this Synod. It would be the nexus for developing Church and socio-environmental networks and initiatives at the continental and international levels.

[ebb tide]

[ebb tide]

Paragraph 115 of the final document of the Amazon Synod called for a “synodal structure” for the Amazon, which would allow it to develop its own regional form of Catholicism and incorporate its native traditions into its religious practices.

So while the universal Traditional Latin Mass has been outlawed to promote unity in the francischurch, the Amazonians can develop their "own regional form of Catholicism" and incorporate its native pagan traditions.