Articles tagged Pachamama

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Vatican urges halt to mining – A sin against Pachamama

The Vatican has issued a new directive discouraging investment in mining, framed as a matter of environmental responsibility. But the Faith and Reason panel sees something else: a Church that blessed Pachamama idols in 2019, whose current Pope knelt to Pachamama in 1995, now imposing an anti-human ecology that prioritizes the earth over the people who live on it. The hosts defend their reporting on the newly surfaced photographs of Pope Leo XIV participating in a Pachamama ritual, not to scandalize, but to demand clarity. If cardinals condemned Pachamama as “demonic” and “apostasy” under Francis, what do they say now […]
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John-Henry Westen
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Pachamama Leo reaction: Fr. Altman and Liz Yore

The photograph is undeniable: a young Robert Prevost—now Pope Leo XIV—kneeling in a Pachamama ritual. The same earth deity venerated in the Vatican Gardens in 2019, processed into St. Peter’s, and placed before the tomb of the Apostle. The same idol Francis’s cardinals condemned as “demonic,” “apostasy,” and “a crime against divine law.” Now the man in the photo sits on the Throne of Peter. And the cardinals who condemned Pachamama are silent. Fr. James Altman and Liz Yore join to react to the evidence that has reignited the controversy. They argue this is not ancient history—it is a window […]
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John-Henry Westen
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Pachamama betrayal: idolatry tolerated, tradition condemned

Bishop Athanasius Schneider said it plainly in Madrid this weekend: The Catholic faith cannot be changed by any council, any synod, any theologian, any bishop, or even a pope. The faith is what the Church has believed from the beginning. That is our anchor in these crazy times. But the Vatican has a different standard now. Kneel before Pachamama? Process the idol into St. Peter’s? Prostrate yourself before Amazonian nature goddesses? No problem. No naughty letter. No canonical process. Just smiles and red shoes. But try to preserve the Catholic priesthood. Try to maintain the Latin Mass. Try to pass on […]
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LifeSite
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