[Catholic Caucus] Brazilian bishop’s Mass includes heretical creed featuring ‘goddess,’ ‘sexual diversity’

A heterodox creed recited during the annual “Cry of the Excluded” Mass celebrated by Bishop José Valdeci Santos Mendes of Brejo, Maranhão, Brazil, last week, which featured leftist language, included a reference to a “God/Goddess.”

As first reported by EWTN News, during the September 7 Mass (the video for which has since been deleted from YouTube), the “Creed of the Ecclesial Base Communities” included a section emphasizing belief in a “God/Goddess” who is “revolutionary” and does not punish. The heterodox creed also rejects the Church’s hierarchy and affirms open borders and “sexual diversity.”

“We do not believe in a punishing God who inflicts poverty upon His people. WE BELIEVE in a God/Goddess who is present in the diverse experiences of communities: a God who is close to us, a liberating and revolutionary God, a God who is a member of the CEBs, who works and struggles like Jesus of Nazareth,” part of the creed states.

We do not believe that we have to wait. WE BELIEVE that we, as young people, are agents of change who transform reality, fighting for spaces and building alternatives.
We do not believe in borders. WE BELIEVE that we are daughters and sons of a Great Homeland free of racism, free of rules governing love, embracing all sexual diversity, women, youth, Indigenous peoples, Black people, minorities, and all those at the bottom.
We do not believe in a static, patriarchal, clerical, and hierarchical Church. WE BELIEVE in an inclusive, intergenerational community with its own voice. We believe in this Church in struggle, “casting its lot with the poor of the earth,” in the face of a dominant capitalist system.
We do not believe in individualism, saviors, dictators, or coup plotters. WE BELIEVE in the communal and collective building of struggles within the current context unfolding in Our America today.
We do not believe in a punishing God who inflicts poverty upon His people. WE BELIEVE in a God/Goddess who is present in the diverse experiences of communities: a God who is close to us, a liberating and revolutionary God, a God who is a member of the CEBs, who works and struggles like Jesus of Nazareth.

The Catholic Church teaches that there is one God, not a female “Goddess.” Indeed, contrary to what feminists suggest when they erroneously argue that God is female, as stated in the Catechism, God, being pure spirit, is “neither man nor woman; he is God.”

The creed’s reference to “sexual diversity” appears to be a reference to same-sex “marriage.”

The Catholic Church teaches that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered” and “contrary to the natural law” and that the homosexual inclination is “objectively disordered.” The Catechism is very clear that homosexual activity can never be approved and repeats that “(h)omosexual persons are called to chastity.” Homosexual acts are mortal sins; therefore, anyone who commits these sins and does not repent through the sacrament of confession is in danger of hell.

The heretical Creed was part of a suggested liturgy outline for Masses, worship services, and public gatherings to mark the 32nd annual “Cry of the Excluded” movement’s mobilization efforts across the country, coinciding with Brazil’s Independence Day.

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These events are meant to serve “as a counterpoint to the official narrative of Brazil’s independence,” contrasting “the civic and military parades” that typically mark the holiday and call on the people, especially the poor and “the excluded,” to “step down from the bleachers, leave passive patriotism behind, and take to the squares and streets to defend their rights.”

The slogan for the group’s 2026 demonstrations is “In defense of the land, peace, and housing, we raise our voices: Women alive and sovereignty!” Part of the agenda for this year includes fighting so-called “LGBTphobia,” “femicide,” and racism.

The Church in Brazil, as in several South American countries, has seen its churches infested with leftist ideology and even pagan idolatry in recent years.

Back in 2023, a statue of the Pachamama made an appearance at a Mass for the Regional Assemblies of Latin America and the Caribbean, concelebrated by several bishops during the continental-stage meetings of the Synod on Synodality.

A more recent scandal occurred in March 2026, when Bishop Arnaldo Carvalheiro Neto of the Diocese of Jundiaí hosted “LGBT+ Catholic groups” from São Paulo, associated with the heretical Global Network of Rainbow Catholics (GNRC) in his home.

READ: Bishop in Brazil hosts meeting of pro-LGBT ‘Catholic’ groups in his home

The Church in Brazil, as in several South American countries, has seen its churches infested with leftist ideology and even pagan idolatry in recent years.
Back in 2023, a statue of the Pachamama made an appearance at a Mass for the Regional Assemblies of Latin America and the Caribbean, concelebrated by several bishops during the continental-stage meetings of the Synod on Synodality.

The two most recent popes have had strong, notable South American histories.

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[Catholic Caucus] Brazilian bishop’s Mass includes heretical creed featuring ‘goddess,’ ‘sexual diversity’

A Mass for Brazil’s ‘Cry of the Excluded’ event featured the radical ‘Creed of the Ecclesial Base Communities,’ which denounces ‘rules governing love’ and a ‘hierarchical Church.’