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Pagan-influenced ordination of indigenous deacon shows Church with ‘Amazonian face’ The ordination included indigenous songs, dances, bead necklaces, and traditional headwear, as well as the use of animals’ teeth, shells and snails, and bracelets made of vegetable fibres. April 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — For the first time, a member of the Ticuna tribe in the Brazilian diocese of Alto Solimões in the Western province of Amazonia was ordained a permanent deacon of the Catholic Church on March 15, in a ceremony fraught with indigenous symbols. The event received international attention when the Holy See’s official  news service, Vatican News, published...

South American nation holds miniature Amazon Synod, issues radical demands March 6, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — The Catholic Church in French Guiana, one of the nine countries of the Amazon Basin represented at the Amazon Synod in Rome last October, recently held its second local synod with many winks to the Roman event. Several “resolutions” were made in favor of the rights of the indigenous peoples of the region. Also high on the list of priorities were reflections on the environment and the “past” of the local clergy. The most spectacular move involved a commitment on the part of the Church...

Survey of Amazon Synod Final Doc: Vatican II with an Amazonian Face Six weeks have passed since the closing of the Pan-Amazon Synod (Oct. 6-27, 2019), the latest exercise in what Pope Francis has called the “path of synodality which God expects of the Church of the third millennium.” The dust has settled and I have now had a chance to review the Synod’s final document in full, which was originally composed in Spanish and subsequently translated into English by LifeSiteNews in early November due to the absence of an official English text. (Sometime in the past few days, the Vatican finally...

Amazon Synod means the ‘end of Tridentine Church’: French Catholic newspaper Abigail Eltzroth was 'ordained' April 2017 in North Carolina by rebel Catholic group Association of Roman Catholic Women Priests. November 1, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The editor-in-chief of the French Catholic daily, La Croix, wrote a blog post on Tuesday announcing the “end of the Tridentine Church.” Isabelle de Gaulmyn presents what she considers to be the outcome of the Amazon Synod, calling it a “real revolution” that will close the door on Catholicism as it has existed for five centuries. Interestingly, she remarked that Pope Francis will probably not...

The apostate ‘faith’ of the Amazon Synod Below we will take a look at the Catholic faith (in black), followed by the propositions set forth by the architects of the Amazonian Synod in the Instrumentum Laboris (in red), the same having been made manifest over the past few weeks in Rome.At the conclusion, that a pagan planter representing Pachamama (or Mother Earth) was placed on the altar at St. Peter’s to close the event last Sunday, while no less reprehensible, will perhaps make a little more sense.

From Words to Deeds. The Six Points On Which the Post-Synodal Exhortation Is Already Written With the synod for the Amazon filed away, the anticipation is now over what Pope Francis will decide, on the basis of the votes delivered to him in the final document.To judge by the improvised speech in Spanish that Jorge Mario Bergoglio gave in the synod hall at the end of the sessions, on the afternoon of Saturday October 26, his decisions will not take long. And in essence they are already written.To identify them it is enough to go over step by step this...

[Catholic Caucus] Pray for a Miracle — An Initial Reaction to the Close of the Synod I, like many of you, feel overwhelmed by the events of the past month in Rome. Many an evening, late into the night, I have come before the Lord in the rectory chapel in lament for the confusion and chaos in the Church, the Lord’s beautiful bride and our mother. Oftentimes too in the fourth watch of the night, between 3 and 4 a.m., I return to the chapel, for with my cares I cannot long rest. Reported from Rome are terrible and seemingly impious...

Francis Closes Synod with Ecological Lecture There were no wood-carving idols displayed in St. Peter's Basilica for the closing Mass for the Amazonian Synod that convened at the Vatican Oct. 6-27, but the idol of globalism was certainly placed on a pedestal. The historic synod indeed brought to fever pitch its globalist design to "repair" to "Mother Earth" for the "sins" committed against her. Its final document calls for the ordination of married men in the Amazon region and an "ecological conversion" for the entire Church. In his sermon of Oct. 27, Pope Francis denounced exploitation and "predatory models of...