Amazon Synod Working Document Released Today, and It Confirms There’s Trouble on the Horizon

I think you are right and sometimes I focus on the negative and it taints my view. The whole world seems to be under assault from all sides and it gets scary. I have increased my prayer and am increasing my adoration time. A lot of times I think things are so bleak and then something happens that makes me smile and have hope. The Lord is telling me "See, I'm still here!"

 

"Somebody" means business...



Who we are

The Pan-Amazon Synod Watch is an international campaign of the Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira Institute (IPCO) and its sister organizations, the Societies for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and related entities present in more than 30 countries, which constitute the largest coalition of associations in defense of Christian civilization.

Faithful to their principles, they deem it indispensable to combat a false ecology whose promoters seek to control society on the pretext of saving the environment. This is done by imposing so-called ecological ‘degrowth’, both populational and economic, and by restricting legitimate individual freedoms with formulas that seem to cater to a most primitive and archaic tribalism.

IPCO is a Brazilian association founded on December 8, 2006 by the legitimate disciples of Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira who remained united defending the ideals of Tradition, Family and Property against every form of socialism and communism in their cultural, artistic, political, or religious manifestations.

Based on the solid, two thousand-year doctrine of the Catholic Church as well as serious scientific studies, this site aims to alert all those who are legitimately concerned about the news circulating about the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazon region, to be held in October 2019 in Rome.

Indeed, there is talk not only of establishing a “new church,” but also of adopting a new conception of society with a strongly socialist and egalitarian tendency.

For the Church, that would mean a profound constitutional change that would turn her into a structure-less and essentially ‘tribal’ organization, in clear opposition to twenty centuries of Christianity. The Indigenist Theology now being promoted is nothing more than a radicalization, behind the mask of ecology, of the already condemned Liberation Theology, as Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira denounced forty years ago in his book, Indigenous tribalism – a Communist Missionary Ideal for Brazil in the 21st Century.

To civic society, which naturally tends towards the development and enrichment of nations and their peoples, the organizers of the Synod present as an alternative an anti-consumerist and minimalist society that is opposed to free enterprise and private property.

Pan-Amazon Synod Watch aims to rally people and organizations against this adulterated vision, which is a tool to impose a radical eco-tribalist model on the Holy Catholic Church and civic society.

Feel free to join this fight and make sure to contact us!

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Fatima, Thank you for pre-posting this.

This October's synod could be the one before the Warning. One of the books on Garabandal states that there is also a synod after the Warning and before the Miracle. This is from a page that Glenn posted on the forum in the past:



So let's say that this October synod is either the synod before or after the Warning and if it is one before the Warning that Warning occurs soon after the synod, since the Miracle occurs within 12 months after the Warning and in Conchita's last interview about the timing of the Miracle she stated that the Miracle occurs between the months of April and June then the Miracle would have to occur next year in those months.

I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on which Eucharistic martyr would fit the possible dates for the Miracle assuming that it would occur between the 8th and the 16th of those months (inclusive).

Excluding April 9th because it is Holy Thursday in 2020, the possible dates for the Miracle are April 16th, May 14th and June 11th. For those who believe that the Miracle must be in the month of April then April 16th is the only possible date next year.

I just came across a saint who I believe was martyred for the faith whom had an amazing devotion to the Eucharist and who died on April 16th, St. Benedict Joseph Labre. This is from Wikipedia on this saint,

In the last years of his life (his thirties), he lived in Rome, for a time living in the ruins of the Colosseum, and would leave only to make a yearly pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Loreto. He was a familiar figure in the city and known as the "saint of the Forty Hours" (or Quarant' Ore) for his dedication to Eucharistic adoration. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict_Joseph_Labre
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Wikipedia states that he died of malnutrition so I should state that I am not exactly certain that his death qualifies as a martyr's death but I am not certain that it doesn't either. Iow, if his malnutrition was due to him being persecuted for the Faith then his death would qualify as a martyr's death but whether he would qualify as a Eucharistic martyr, only God knows. I also find it a bit interesting that he has the same name as our previous pope.

In addition, I want to say that I am not guessing at the date of the Miracle but just wondering about the possibilities of next year being the year.

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There is also a saint who was martyred on June 11th who also had a great devotion to the Eucharist, St. John of Sahagún, but he was from Spain. It is interesting that he has been compared to Padre Pio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Sahagún

 

Hello again C55. I do love chatting about dates. I have a special devotion to Saint Benedict Joseph Labré having read about him some years ago. Quite by chance whilst praying in a church in Rome last year, I noticed his tomb was right next to me. I was thrilled.

It is encased in a glass frame with many petitions posted through an opening. I wrote out a prayer request and stuck it in and I credit him with repairing some difficulties in my life. Thank you, Saint BJL.

Also, St Bernadette’s feast day is one of the dates you suggested for the miracle: 16th April. If something wonderful is to occur at Marian Apparition sites, this could be a great date.

 

One thing about a Synod's is they take time to plan. I believe, this one has been in the works for nearly two years. What makes it somewhat suspicious is that it has been very secretive and thus suspect of concern from the beginning. With a very orthodox Cardinal already calling out come some obvious apostasy with what he knows about it and when we look at the state of the Catholic Church and many of its leaders who have lost their faith, along with a world gone evil in its ways, it seems highly plausible to me that this may well be the Synod that Conchita was told about to take place shortly before the Warning.

 

JAK, Hello again to you too! That is neat about your special devotion to Saint Benedict Joseph Labré and that is amazing that you came across his tomb that way and that he interceded for you. He appears to be another quite amazing saint.

Thank you for the reminder about St. Bernadette. April 16th, 2020 does seem to be a great date.

I like this exercise in trying to figure out if the Eucharistic martyr could be a saint that has not been considered in the past by those following Garabandal. It allows me to learn about many saints whom I was not familiar with like Saint Benedict Joseph Labré.

I think many of us believe that we are very close to the fruition of Our Lady of Garabandal's prophecies and I also think that it is very hopeful to consider that there is a possibility that it could be next Spring or the next Spring and so on, so long as we don't allow ourselves to get discouraged.

Edited to add:

It is also interesting that April 16th is Pope Benedict XVI's birthday and that he did not choose his name for Saint Benedict Joseph Labre. So iow, this is just a coincidence. He chose his name for the following reasons:

Ratzinger chose the pontifical name Benedict, which comes from the Latin word meaning "the blessed", in honour of both Pope Benedict XV and Saint Benedict of Nursia. Pope Benedict XV was pope during the First World War, during which time he passionately pursued peace between the warring nations. St. Benedict of Nursia was the founder of the Benedictine monasteries (most monasteries of the Middle Ages were of the Benedictine order) and the author of the Rule of Saint Benedict, which is still the most influential writing regarding the monastic life of Western Christianity. The Pope explained his choice of name during his first general audience in St. Peter's Square, on 27 April 2005:

Filled with sentiments of awe and thanksgiving, I wish to speak of why I chose the name Benedict. Firstly, I remember Pope Benedict XV, that courageous prophet of peace, who guided the Church through turbulent times of war. In his footsteps I place my ministry in the service of reconciliation and harmony between peoples. Additionally, I recall Saint Benedict of Nursia, co-patron of Europe, whose life evokes the Christian roots of Europe. I ask him to help us all to hold firm to the centrality of Christ in our Christian life: May Christ always take first place in our thoughts and actions!​

This link contains a longer quote from Pope Benedict XVI about why he chose his papal name
http://w2.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/audiences/2005/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20050427.html

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PS- April 16th, 2020 is also the Thursday before Divine Mercy Sunday.

 

I suppose you have all watched ETWN on about this. I watched it as soon as I got back home. Total horror. unbelievable. All this is a true nightmare. I knew things were bad ; but this is beyond my very worst dreams.
Sigh.

At least I have learnt to take it to the Lord in prayer. To find peace. St Teresa of Avila famously said,

'I am a child of the Church'.

I am only know realising the supreme importance of the Church. I find myself praying for priests much, much more recently. What a gift we have when we have good priests and Bishops. Its only when you realise you may be about to loose something you come to appreciate it. What a gift we have in good priests.

What a total, total, total nightmare we are going through.

I took the Church far, far, far too much for granted.

 

I believe that Julia Meloni's take on 1P5 is spot on. What this synod will give birth to is not the destruction of celibacy or marriage in the priesthood but a return to paganism and pantheism. This is the real threat of this synod, the working documents make this clear. The rest is IMO smoke and mirrors meant to distract from the truth of the matter.

I am not sure why the last bit of this article is stricken. I can't remove it so please rather than reading between read behind the line or just go to the source.

https://onepeterfive.com/paganism-amazon-synod/

The Spirit of Paganism Looms over the Amazon Synod
Julia Meloni Julia Meloni July 9, 2019 2 Comments

Something ancient — paganism — is “struggling to be born” again. It’s slouching toward birth, like Yeats’s “rough beast,” laboring to arrive for its hour.

It’s emerging amid the rise of what exorcist Fr. Chad Ripperger ominously describes as the “sixth generation.” According to Fr. Ripperger, specific “generational spirits” — demons — afflict different generations. For instance, the generational spirit for Generations X and Y is “a spirit of amorality or the absence of religiosity,” while Generation Z — which, in general, received “no moral formation at all” — is “beset by a spirit of depravity.”

But the “sixth generation” — those born from about 2008 on — will have a spirit unlike any of the previous generational spirits.

As Fr. Ripperger explains:

Exorcists know that the introduction into the occult is almost always accomplished through immorality, especially immorality in the areas of the sixth and ninth commandments[.] … The previous generation’s slow descent into the sexual depravity of the prior generation, fueled by a prolific pornography industry, has opened the door to the spirit of paganism.

“The trajectory of moral depravity and curiosity in occult matters will result in the next generation wanting or actually having open worship of other ‘gods,’” predicts the exorcist.

Other voices, too, are discerning the “return of paganism.” Ross Douthat limns its features:

[This worldview includes the belief] that divinity is fundamentally inside the world rather than outside it, that God or the gods or Being are ultimately part of nature rather than an external creator, and that meaning and morality and metaphysical experience are to be sought in a fuller communion with the immanent world rather than a leap toward the transcendent[.] … t sees the purpose of religion and spirituality as more therapeutic, a means of seeking harmony with nature and happiness in the everyday[.]

As Douthat notes, there are signs of a resurgent “intellectual pantheism” and a “this-world-focused civil religion” — evident in, for instance, social justice theology. And there’s an attendant rise in the “popular supernaturalism” embodied by New Age practices; psychics and mediums; and “explicit neo-paganism, Wiccan and otherwise.”

It’s often noted, for instance, that there are now more witches than Presbyterians in the U.S.

Douthat says we’re just waiting for “the philosophers of pantheism and civil religion … to build a religious bridge to the New Agers and neo-pagans.” We’re just waiting for them to create “an actual way to worship, not just to appreciate, the pantheistic order they discern.”

“Perhaps a prophet of a new harmonized paganism is waiting in the wings,” he muses.

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Meanwhile, the Amazon synod has unveiled a brazenly “neo-pagan” working document — a text that eerily praises pagan rituals (n. 87) and “faith in the God Father–Mother Creator” (n. 121) and “dialogue with the spirits” (n. 75).

The document, as José Antonio Ureta shows, embraces the “deification of nature” extolled by U.N. environmental conferences and texts. Ureta points to a revealing concluding speech by a U.N. official at the 1992 Rio conference:

[P]ost-Rio man must also love the world[.] … Over and above the moral contract with God, over and above the social contract concluded with men, we must now conclude an ethical and political contract with nature[.] …

To the ancients, the Nile was a god to be venerated, as was the Rhine, an infinite source of European myths, or the Amazonian forest, the mother of forests. Throughout the world, nature was the abode of the divinities that gave the forest, the desert or the mountains a personality which commanded worship and respect. The Earth had a soul. To find that soul again, to give it new life, that is the essence of Rio.

As Ureta points out, the Amazon synod’s working document, citing a Bolivian text, likewise effuses that the jungle “is a being or various beings with whom to relate” (n. 23). It continues by idealizing native peoples who have “not yet [been] influenced by Western civilization” — peoples with untouched “beliefs and rites regarding the actions of spirits, of the many-named divinity acting with and in the territory” (n. 25).

As historian Roberto de Mattei remarks, these valorized peoples “have been liberated from monotheism and have restored animism and polytheism.” According to the document, the pantheistic “Creator Spirit who fills the universe” has “nurtured the spirituality of these peoples for centuries,” bearing great “fruit” (n. 120).

The Church, it appears, must not convert, but learn from such revelatory prophets. She must recognize “other avenues/pathways that seek to decipher the inexhaustible mystery of God” — shedding an “insincere openness” that “reserve salvation exclusively for one’s own creed.” She must, in short, affirm that “love lived in any religion pleases God” (n. 39).

This “remarkable text,” as Peter Kwasniewski shows, “bluntly sets aside traditional views of evangelization, salvation, and sanctification.” Ultimately, it’s redolent of the Modernist notion that “every religion, even that of paganism, must be held to be true” (Pascendi). Perhaps that is why the working document’s main author is reported to have said, “I have not yet baptized an Indian, and I also will not do it.”

Ultimately, as Ureta explains:

In this intercultural dialogue, the Church must also enrich herself with clearly pagan and/or pantheistic elements of beliefs such as ‘faith in God the Father-Mother Creator,’ ‘relations with ancestors,’ ‘communion and harmony with the earth’ (n. 121) and connection with ‘the various spiritual forces’ (n. 13). Not even witchcraft is sidelined by this ‘enrichment.’ According to the document, ‘The richness of the flora and fauna of the forest contains real ‘living pharmacopoeias’ and unexplored genetic principles’ (n. 86). In this context, ‘Indigenous rituals and ceremonies are essential for integral health…They create harmony and balance between human beings and the cosmos. They protect life from the evils that can be caused by both humans and other living beings. They help to cure diseases that damage the environment, human life and other living beings’ (n. 87).

A new harmonized paganism, slouching to be born. Wanting or actually having open worship of other ‘gods’…

I can’t get those lines out of my mind as I read through a document that, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller charges, is guilty of a “pantheistic idolatry of nature,” a “purely immanentist notion of religion,” “apostasy,” heresy, and more.

… a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again …

Are the same generational spirits haunting the outside world now also afflicting the Church? Is it a coincidence that after the family synods and Amoris Laetitia attacked the Sixth Commandment, the Amazon synod’s working document sank into the shadows of open neo-paganism?

As the sixth generation rises, just what will slink forward to be born?

 

Great article. There most certainly is a return of paganism. New Age, psychic medium, yoga businesses are sprouting up all over the place, and actually hard to avoid where I live. I walked into a little gift shop this past weekend with my daughter, and we were attracted to a display of what looked like Catholic religious candles. To my horror, instead of saints, the images on the candles were of celebrities with prayers to them written on the back. That's right, people can light a candle and pray to John Lennon if they so choose. They should be praying for his soul. It was only a few weeks ago that I ran out of a local bookstore when I saw a whole section devoted to witchcraft, and black masses. Yes, paganism is growing, and sadly the majority of people could care less.

 

After reading Cardinal Muller's overview of the Amazon Synod to take place in October, I am more concerned then ever that it is a sham Synod, sure to undermine the Churches teachings in a variety of gobblety gook new age indigenous language confussion. Seems to me it may well be the "Synod" that takes place, "shortly before the "Warning" from God that the seers were told would happen. Read it for yourself..... http://www.ncregister.com/daily-new...-analysis-on-the-working-document-of-the-amaz
Jul. 16, 2019
Full Text of Cardinal Müller's Analysis on the Working Document of the Amazon Synod
Cardinal Mueller criticizes a 'false teaching' on revelation in an Amazon synod document.

 

http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/german-catholic-relief-agencies-fuel-synods-push-for-change

Vatican | Jul. 19, 2019

German Catholic Relief Agencies Fuel Synod’s Push for Change

Working through REPAM, which has been assigned a key role in organizing the synod, the German Church agencies have provided substantial funding related to the controversial upcoming Pan-Amazon synod.

Edward Pentin

VATICAN CITY — The heads of two German Church aid agencies, which the Register has learned have made significant financial and other contributions toward preparing for the Pan-Amazon Synod, have said the October meeting will be an “unmistakable signal of departure” for the Church.

In a joint foreword to the German translation of the synod’s working document (instrumentum laboris), the chief executives of Adveniat and Misereor, respectively the German bishops’ relief agency for Latin America and the bishops’ overseas aid and development agency, said the upcoming meeting “will show that change is possible in politics, the economy, technology and, last but not least, in the Church.”

The synod is “about responding to the challenges of the times by listening to the Spirit who demands the lives of men, peoples and creation as a whole be defended,” wrote Father Michael Heinz and Pirmin Spiegel in the foreword, published July 17.

They added that the working document called for “a profound change in the Church” and that “what will be discussed in Rome will have significance for the Church worldwide.”

The aid agency heads also say the synod document calls for “decentralization so that local churches can decide for themselves what directly concerns them, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity.” It calls for a Church “that leaves its comfort zones and goes to the peripheries, where people count for nothing and have no rights,” they add. “It is a matter of implementing the program of Evangelii Gaudium,” Pope Francis’ 2013 apostolic exhortation.

Their comments follow those of Adveniat’s president, Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck of Essen, who said earlier this year that the synod will lead the Church to a “point of no return,” and, thereafter, “nothing will be the same as it was.”

The Oct. 6-27 synod, the theme of which is “Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology,” will comprise all the bishops from the vast region that encompasses Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guyana, Guyana and Surinam, along with experts, heads of relevant Vatican Curial departments and several papal appointees.

Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, the secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, told reporters at the launch of the meeting’s working document last month that the meeting will be a time of “pastoral reflection, open to recognizing diversity” and “listening to the Amazonian reality, with all its cultural and ecclesial facets.”

The synod is expected to place great emphasis on listening to Amazonian indigenous peoples and drawing attention to the hardships and sufferings they face, such as human exploitation, environmental degradation and the destruction of the Amazonian rainforests.

But the working document has stirred considerable controversy, with German Cardinals Gerhard Müller and Walter Brandmüller branding it heretical.

In an analysis published this week, Cardinal Müller, a former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), also criticized the document for describing the Amazon as a source of revelation. Such an assertion, he said, is a “false teaching.”

And in earlier July 7 comments to the Register, Cardinal Müller noted how heavily influenced the working document is by European theologians, particularly German-speaking ones, who, he said, are keen to resurrect old theological theories. “We heard all these ideas 30 years ago,” he observed.

Particular areas of controversy in the document include a clear push to ordain married men of proven virtue but without seminary formation, ostensibly to address a shortage of priests in the Amazon region (critics see this as a means to force an end to mandatory Latin Rite priestly celibacy through the back door), as well as the document’s treatment of ecological issues and its distortions of inculturation.

It also invites the participants to “reconsider” the linking of Church authority with her sacramental, judicial and administrative duties, especially holy orders, and speaks of an “official ministry” to be conferred on women.



REPAM’s Role

A key organization in the preparation for this synod has been the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network (REPAM), of which Misereor and Adveniat are a part.

Set up in 2014 (three years before Pope Francis had officially announced the synod) by CELAM (the Latin American Episcopal Council), CLAR (Confederation of Latin American Religious), Caritas Latin America, and the bishops’ conference of Brazil, REPAM’s aim has been to “bring to the world’s attention the fragile situation of indigenous people in the Amazon and the critical importance of the Amazon biome to the planet — our common home.”

But the more practical purpose of the network, whose president is the synod’s general relator, Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, has been to prepare for the synod, including helping to draft the working document.

The network was “formally entrusted to support the secretariat of the synod in the process of active and direct listening, in the gathering of information in an adequate manner,” outgoing Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti told the Register July 10.

This was done “to help in the elaboration” of the synod’s “preparatory document (lineamenta) and the working document (instrumentum laboris),” he said, adding that this was carried out through a “listening process” of various contributions, in order to “encourage the greatest possible participation of the various actors in the process.”

Since its founding, REPAM has also held 45 assemblies with indigenous peoples, rural communities, social movements and pastoral workers across the region’s nine countries.

‘A Closed Group’

But critics, such as Cardinal Müller, have pointed to weaknesses in the network.

In his July 16 analysis, the former CDF prefect said it is “a closed group of absolutely like-minded people, as can easily be gleaned from the list of participants at pre-synodal meetings in Washington and Rome, and it includes a disproportionately large number of mostly German-speaking Europeans.”

He also affirmed the body was “tasked with the preparation” of the working document, adding it “was founded for that very reason in 2014.”

Its work is also continuing in setting the agenda for the synod, after the publication of the working document. In late June, REPAM held a controversial private “study meeting,” during which the issue of ordaining married men figured highly, as did the possibility of ordaining women as deacons.

A third of the participants were German-speaking prelates or experts known to be sympathetic to these theological positions. Among those attending was retired Austrian Bishop Erwin Kräutler of the Territorial Prelature of Xingu in Brazil, whom Pope Francis appointed as an expert consultant to the synod.

Bishop Kräutler, REPAM’s Brazilian director who is thought to have helped write the synod’s working document, said in an interview with Austrian television this week that one consequence of the synod will be “that regional bishops’ conferences receive the right to ordain to the priesthood married men.” He also said women should “at least” be “ordained as female deacons,” which “would be a beginning.”

Continued..

 

German Funding

As members of REPAM with significant resources, both Misereor and Adveniat have been heavily involved in the network’s activities. Adveniat spokeswoman Carolin Kronenburg told the Register July 16 that the organization “supports several REPAM projects financially and therefore the preparatory meetings for the Amazon synod.”

She disclosed that for the 2018 financial year and “in preparation for the synod,” Adveniat supported “nine projects and REPAM activities with a total of €272,000 [$307,000].” Kronenburg added that Adveniat, which last year had a total income of almost €50 million ($56 million), made “further funds” available “after the closure of the budget (Sept. 30, 2018) and in previous years.”

Adveniat has also “collected questions, suggestions and topics from 85,000 local people at numerous preparatory meetings in the Amazon region,” Kronenburg said. “Adveniat therefore supports the participation of the people in the Amazon synod, and therefore their commitment to safeguarding creation in the fight against violence done to the earth,” she added.

Ralph Allgaier, a spokesman for Misereor, stressed the agency is “not co-financing the Amazon synod” nor does it have any “mandate for such financing,” but he added that “various projects coming out of REPAM’s partner organizations receive funding from Misereor.” Last year, the agency had a total income of €232 million ($260 million).

Others, however, have been noticeably guarded about discussing financing of the synod. The Holy See Press Office did not address the issue when asked, but explained the background of REPAM instead.

The Register also contacted the office of Cardinal Hummes to ask about financing for the meeting and whether REPAM had been created in 2014 with the synod in mind, but didn’t receive a reply. Cardinal Baldisseri was asked the same questions, but he was away, and no one else from the office responded. Caritas Internationalis, whose Latin America office helped found the network, also did not respond.

Edward Pentin is the Register’s Rome correspondent.

 

https://panamazonsynodwatch.info/editorial/cardinal-barreto-a-surprise-perhaps-now-explained/

Cardinal Barreto: A Surprise (perhaps) Now Explained

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Julio Loredo de Izcue

The nomination as cardinal of the Most Rev. Pedro Barreto Jimeno, Archbishop of Huancayo, Peru, in May 2018, was a capital surprise. Some compared it to a small atomic bomb. Indeed, Peru has always had only one cardinal, that of the primatial see of Lima, the country’s capital, which thus became a point of reference for the Church at the national level. Other seats such as Arequipa, Trujillo and Cusco could have aspired to this honor, given their historical and cultural importance. With all due respect to its citizens, certainly not Huancayo.

At the time, the move was seen as one of those ecclesiastical tsunamis so dear to the current Pontiff. Someone went further by pointing out that Barreto is a fellow Jesuit and follower of Liberation Theology, which, after being condemned by the two previous pontiffs, had a great return right under Francis. The more informed also recalled that the two have been friends since Barreto took part in a retreat in Buenos Aires in the 1980s preached by Father Jorge María Bergoglio, then Jesuit provincial in Argentina. The fact that Barreto’s mother was born in Flores, the same neighborhood as Bergoglio’s, made the friendship easier.

Today, in hindsight, it seems that Archbishop Barreto’s appointment was part of a rather well-structured strategic plan.

Indeed, Cardinal Barreto is emerging as one of the main spokesmen of the Pan-Amazon Synod. His recent statements responding to the criticisms of Cardinals Walter Brandmüller and Gerhard Müller have catapulted him from the Amazonian forests to the center of world attention as a sort of counterpoint to conservative voices: cardinal versus cardinal, with the advantage of being a Peruvian and therefore able to present himself as close to the problems the Synod will deal with.

The first to welcome Most Rev. Barreto’s appointment was Father Gustavo Gutiérrez, founder of Liberation Theology. Precisely the one who declared that Latin America had to move towards socialism in the footsteps of Marxism. “Msgr. Barreto’s appointment as cardinal is great news for the Peruvian Church,” declared Gutiérrez. “He is a person firmly committed to the main problems of our country. We must thank Pope Francis.” For those familiar with liberationist jargon, the sense of this “commitment” is all too clear.

Archbishop Barreto returned the compliment by celebrating Holy Mass to honor Father Gutiérrez’s ninetieth birthday in the Basilica of the Most Holy Rosary of the Dominican convent in Lima. The homily was given by Father Jorge Álvarez Calderón, another historical figure in Liberation Theology, founder of ONIS (National Office of Social Information) who supported the communist dictatorship of General Juan Velasco Alvarado.

Of the old socialism, Cardinal Barreto kept a social and political commitment that translates into support for the claims of the Peruvian left. He has created a special Pastoral of Human Dignity linked to Red Muqui, an “anti-mining” conglomerate that opposes mining in Peru. By denying the right to private property and free initiative, the “anti-miners” function in practice as a subversive left, opposing even with violence every effort to extract mineral wealth in Peru. “Right and left in Peru now define themselves by their respective positions regarding the mining problem,” declared then president Pedro Pablo Kuschinsky.

Even the old communist left, with links to Shining Path terrorism, has found a gold mine in the “anti-mining” struggle (forgive the pun). “Anti-miners” have perpetrated numerous acts of violence and even had armed clashes with law enforcement, causing deaths and injuries.

This movement has received an indirect but all too clear support from Pope Francis, who in his speech at Madre de Dios in Peru, condemned “neo-extractivism” in no uncertain terms as one of the main evils of our time, especially in the Amazon area.

Cardinal Barreto’s support of the left adds to his frequent statements condemning center-right political parties. In Peru, he is considered a politically-minded prelate.

Like many liberation theologians and activists, Cardinal Barreto has added the color green to the color red, the flag of radical ecology in its indigenist form.

His indigenist militancy, rooted in his experiences in indigenous areas while studying with the Jesuits in Lima, began in 2001 when he was appointed bishop of Jaen, in the Peruvian Amazon. In contact with the Indians, he had – in his own words – “a true conversion” to the point that he became known as “the bishop converted by the natives.” What struck him so deeply to the point of “conversion”? He explains:

“I saw in the Indians a great care for water and animals. I was struck by their sense of community, without the need for police. I was also struck by their sobriety. The Indians live for the day and make no plans even for the next week. Another point is their egalitarian treatment. There are no differences. I learned a lot from them and continue to learn. Their culture, their wisdom showed a transcendence that for me was God.” He concludes by saying that the Church should not evangelize the Indians but rather learn from them: “It is the Indians who must teach us so many things.” The lessons learned from Amazon Indians will then trigger a drive for a profound reform in the Church: “We must definitely support the reform of the Church. Now or never!”

While it is always risky to raise conspiracy theories, we must ask ourselves whether a voice covered with a cardinal’s authority was precisely what the Amazon Synod and the indigenist agenda needed.

 

Yea, this makes sense. Have the pagans teach the Christians about God.

 

Ugh! It seems the Church is going backwards. Christianity built Western Civilization, no small thing and now look.

Why do some people think the indigenous cultures are so much better and so much more spiritual than Christianity? I have never understood it. I have friends that think the Native Americans are so wonderful and their religion was and is so filled with love for the Earth and for each other Really? Some of the NA tribes were barbaric and love for Earth over man is pagan and ridiculous. They look at me like I have 3 heads. Paganism is back with a vengeance.

Maybe the world will be pagan again when Christ returns as it was when he came the first time? Except for the Jews most were pagan.

 

Being pagan would be a picnic to what it will be like when Jesus returns. It will be pure Satanic under the Antichrist when Christ returns. The remnant will survive only by the grace of God in refuges.

 

I'd like to really chat with someone about the refuges. I have been trusting that those will become clarified with the Warning.

 

I think it is because superstition and worship of the creation rather than the creator excites one toward the rationalization and justification to overcome the small voice of reason that tells us not to give in to our self indulgence and the flesh. It is quite insidious because these things masquerade as corporal acts of charity which of course for the modernist transcend all beliefs. No mention is given of course toward conversion and salvation ever unless it is to condemn it. I have relatives that do exactly what you have described with their idolization of pantheistic and pagan beliefs. It is all just part of their "journey" and if you tell them the truth rather than "accompany" them on it they will burn with hatred because their conscious has been pricked and the worm will gnaw away not giving them rest.

They worship an idea that justifies every thought and desire of the flesh. It is base because it does not seek to do God's will but only to justify it's own dark self intentions.

This is why witch craft has become so popular with young women today. They can cast a spell, a curse, or a potion which of course serves their desires and be trendy too.

 

Cardinal Müller: No pope or council could permit female deacons, ‘it would be invalid’
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/c...uld-permit-female-deacons-it-would-be-invalid

Maike Hickson

German cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller at Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, January 6, 2015. Franco Origlia/Getty Images
July 26, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The cardinal in charge of safeguarding Catholic doctrine under Pope Benedict issued today a second detailed critique of the Amazon Synod’s working document (Instrumentum Laboris), saying that no synod, Pope, or council “could make possible the ordination of women as bishop, priest, or deacon.”

Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith who was removed from his post by Pope Francis in 2017, concentrated especially on the question of the priesthood and of the impossibility of female participation in it (read full critique below).

“The Magisterium of the Pope and of the bishops has no authority over the substance of the Sacraments," the Cardinal states.

"Therefore, no synod – with or without the Pope – and also no ecumenical council, or the Pope alone, if he spoke ex cathedra, could make possible the ordination of women as bishop, priest, or deacon. They would stand in contradiction to the defined doctrine of the Church," he continues.

"It would be invalid,” he adds.

Cardinal Müller called the upcoming Synod, set to take place in Rome October 8-27, a “wrecking ball” that aims at a “restructuring of the Universal Church.”

The Cardinal's text is published simultaneously in four languages. In English (LifeSiteNews), Italian (Corrispondenza Romana), Spanish (Infovaticana), as well as in German (Die Tagespost). Last week, Cardinal Müller issued his first evaluation of the Amazon Synod's working document, criticizing it for its "radical u-turn in the hermeneutics of Catholic theology" and for its "false teaching."

In his statement today, Cardinal Müller links the Amazon Synod and its own reform proposals directly with the “synodal process” which is now being prepared by the German bishops and which, similarly to the Amazon Synod, aims at discussing the role of women in the Church as well as raising questions about priestly celibacy.

Both the German “synodal path” and the Amazon Synod aim at questioning the priesthood, both with regard to priestly celibacy, as well as with regard to the incongruous idea of separating the governing duties from the teaching and sanctifying duties of the ordained office. The Amazon Synod even proposes to create a new form of priesthood, with married men who have families and thus less time for a longer period of theological preparation for the priesthood. Both reform movements also propose new roles for women in the Church, with the Amazon Synod's working document even proposing an “official ministry” for women, to include possibly a “female diaconate.”

Cardinal Müller gives his entire theological weight and expertise in order to defend the Catholic priesthood. He reminds us that “the three-fold office – as it historically grew out of the apostolate in the Early Church as instituted by Christ – exists by virtue of a “divine institution” (Lumen Gentium 20).” This office is exercised by bishops, presbyters/priests, and deacons.

(more at the link)