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Priest slams plan for ‘Amazon rite,’ says Pope Francis ‘is not the master of the Holy Mass’‘The Pope can no more invent a new Mass than he can invent a new Gospel, and Francis can no more ban the old Mass than he can ban one of the books of Holy Scripture!’ Father Joachim Heimerl writes. In the near future, a new rite of the Mass is to be introduced for Amazonia with the Pope’s approval, which, as is to be feared based on previous experience, will contain or at least adapt pagan elements of indigenous culture.This is actually a...

Pope Lauds African Rite ‘Invoking Ancestors’Francis: Inculturated Zairean rite a 'promising model' for AmazonVATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Pope Francis is praising an inculturated African Mass rite as a model for a proposed Amazonian indigenous rite even though the African eucharistic liturgy incorporates the pagan custom of "invocation of ancestors.""Spirits of Brothers & Sisters" painting depicting ancestral religion "The Zairean rite suggests a promising way also for the possible elaboration of an Amazonian rite," writes Francis in his preface for a new book titled Pope Francis and the Roman Missal of the Dioceses of Zaire: A Promising Rite for Other Cultures.The...