https://freerepublic.com/tag/amazoniansynod/ en-us Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:15:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3785649/posts Canon lawyer priest on Amazon Synod’s pagan tree-planting: ‘This is horrendous’ ROME, October 11, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — Reacting to Pope Francis’s participation in a “pagan religious ceremony” on the grounds of the Vatican, a canon lawyer said on EWTN’s The World Over that the ceremony was “horrendous” and that Catholicism is supposed to “overthrow pagan false notions,” not be taught by them. On October 4, Pope Francis observed as an Amazonian woman led a ritual in the Vatican gardens as part of a tree-planting ceremony. The woman, bedecked with a traditional feather headdress, prostrated herself before the tree and a... LifeSite News https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3785649/posts#comment Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:15:28 GMT