Pope Francis must lead Church in formal repentance for Pachamama idolatry

From where and whom did the Amazonian statues hurled in the Tiber actually originate?

Catholic Debate on Married Priests Goes Global

VATICAN CITY—Church members who want to relax the thousand-year-old requirement of priestly celibacy are watching to see what happens on Saturday in Rome, where Catholic bishops are debating a proposal to allow married men in the Amazon region to be ordained.
A bishops’ assembly at the Vatican on issues facing the Amazon this month is discussing the idea to overcome a recruitment problem that has left many Catholic believers in the region with only infrequent visits from priests. The bishops will vote on their recommendations to Pope Francis on Saturday. A call for permission to ordain married men in the Amazon would encourage those who have been making similar proposals on other continents, prompting arguments that “if it’s going to be proposed in one region, then we should have the right to look at it elsewhere,” said Adam DeVille, a professor of theology at Indiana’s University of Saint Francis and editor of a forthcoming study on married Catholic priests.--> READ MORE

The Idols of Pachamama in Rome Are Destroyed and Cast Into the Tiber River

Archbishop at Amazon synod: Admit sins against nature during confession

ROME - Catholics should admit their crimes against nature in confession, according to one prelate at the Vatican’s ongoing summit for the Amazon region.

“The ecological situation today is a motive for division, but people cannot but take into consideration the importance the environment has for us,” said Archbishop Pedro Brito Guimarães, of Palmas, Brazil, on Friday. “Ecological sins. It’s a new word for us, also for the Church, but people don’t confess the sins we commit against nature.”
Guimarães’s words came during the daily press conference for the Oct. 6-27 Synod of Bishops on the Amazon.

“Everything is interconnected, it’s a chain. For this reason, this synod is important,” the archbishop
said. “The future of humanity also depends on the decisions of this synod.”
The press conference also featured Cardinal Carlos Aguiar Retes, Archbishop of Mexico; Bishop Joaquín Pertíñez Fernández, of Rio Branco, Brazil; and Sister Birgit Weiler, who works in Peru.
The call for an integral ecology and the protection of the environment were the major themes discussed by the four synod participants.

Weiler accused international corporations of exploiting the resources of the Amazon region without upholding the rules they would be forced to follow in their countries of origin.
The nun said that many indigenous peoples in the Amazon count on the Church to help them file civil complaints against foreign companies, and that some progress has been made with companies coming from the United States and Canada, but it’s “harder to fight for human rights” with Chinese companies.--> READ MORE