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Amazon Synod proposing ‘blueprint for a new Church,’ warns Catholic leader
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ROME, September 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — The guiding documents for the upcoming Amazonian Synod contain “the blueprint for a new Church,” are permeated with “tribalism,” and present “witchcraft” as a new paradigm for theology, a Peruvian author has claimed.

Julio Loredo, author of Liberation Theology, a life jacket for the poor made of lead [Teologia della liberazione. Un salvagente di piombo per i poveri

LifeSite spoke with Mr. Loredo ahead of an Oct. 5 conference in Rome titled, “Amazon: The Stakes.”


Loredo, who serves as editor and a regular to the “Pan-Amazon Synod Watch” and will moderate the Oct. 5 event, said its purpose is to “delve deeper into the underpinnings” of the Amazon Synod and “bring the voice of the real Amazonian Indians to Rome.”

The conference will feature speakers representing the indigenous Amazonian peoples as well as experts in the fields of climatology, philosophy and liberation theology.

“Europeans need to realize that many, if not all, of the figures that appear on the media circuit are in fact mere mouthpieces of the environmentalist lobbies,” Loredo said, citing Pope Francis’s recent meeting with Chief Raoni, an internationally renowned defender of the Amazon’s delicate ecosystem.

“They are flown in private planes and received at the highest levels, attracting huge media coverage. They, however, do not represent the Amazon,” he said.

In the interview, Loredo also expresses concern about the “overwhelming role” that “progressive German bishops” are taking at the Amazonian Synod. German prelates, in fact, have played a key role in pre-synod meetings and financing of the October Synod, being held Oct. 6-27 at the Vatican.

“The Germans are using the Amazon River to help the Rhine flow into the Tiber,” Loredo said. “Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, of Essen, who is one of the Synod organizers, was very clear about its goals: ‘After the Synod, nothing will be the same in the Church. [The Synod] will mark a break in the Church.’”

Here below is our interview with Mr. Julio Loredo. See a full schedule of the Oct. 5 Rome conference here.

Mr. Loredo, you will be serving as Moderator for the Conference “Amazon: the Stakes,” being held in Rome one day before the opening of the Amazon Synod. What is the aim of the conference, and what are the issues that will be discussed?
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A Vatican-backed website launched to promote the pact added: “Educating young people in fraternity, in learning to overcome divisions and conflicts, promote hospitality, justice and peace: Pope Francis has invited everyone who cares about the education of the young generation to sign a Global Pact, to create a global change of mentality through education.”

The Pope’s message on the ‘Global Pact’
In a strikingly secular message containing only one throw-away reference to the Lord, Pope Francis called on people to “capitalize on our best energies” and to be “proactive” in “opening education to a long-term vision unfettered by the status quo.”

“This,” he said, “will result in men and women who are open, responsible, prepared to listen, dialogue and reflect with others, and capable of weaving relationships with families, between generations, and with civil society, and thus to create a new humanism.”

Quoting Hillary Clinton’s favorite aphorism, “It takes a village to raise a child,” Pope Francis asserted the need to create an “educational village,” in which “all people, according to their respective roles, share the task of forming a network of open, human relationships.”

At a time when the right to homeschool and the right to a free choice of school are threatened, and when countries throughout the world level taxes to provide public schooling to which no Catholic parents could safely send their child, Pope Francis omitted any reference to the prerogatives of parents as the primary educators of their children.

Referencing the “Document on Human Fraternity and World Peace for Living Together,” which he signed with the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in Abu Dhabi last February, Francis explained that, in this new global village, “the ground must be cleared of discrimination and fraternity must be allowed to flourish.”

Readers will recall that the Abu Dhabi document aroused controversy for stating that the “diversity of religions” is “willed by God.”

“In this kind of village,” the Pope also said an “alliance” must be forged “between the earth’s inhabitants and our ‘common home,’ which we are bound to care for and respect. An alliance that generates peace, justice and hospitality among all peoples of the human family, as well as dialogue between religions.”

Not everyone is convinced that peace can be achieved by promoting the Abu Dhabi document, however. Bishop Athanasius Schneider recently observed that “however noble such aims as ‘human fraternity’ and ‘world peace’ may be, they cannot be promoted at the cost of relativizing the truth of uniqueness of Jesus Christ and His Church

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Cdl. Marx defies Vatican: German ‘synod’ will go ahead despite plan being called ‘not…valid’
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September 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Reinhard Marx has fired back at the Vatican after it informed him the German bishops’ plans for a “binding synodal path” are “not ecclesiologically valid,” saying the German bishops’ plans, which include addressing issues of priestly celibacy, the role of women, and sexual morality, will be “helpful” to the Church.

“Countless believers in Germany consider [these issues] to be in need of discussion,” Marx wrote to Cardinal Marc Ouellet of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.

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Cdl. Marx defies Vatican: German ‘synod’ will go ahead despite plan being called ‘not…valid’
Catholic, German Bishops, German Bishops Conference, Homosexuality, Marc Ouellet, Priestly Celibacy, Reinhard Marx, Synodal Path

September 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Cardinal Reinhard Marx has fired back at the Vatican after it informed him the German bishops’ plans for a “binding synodal path” are “not ecclesiologically valid,” saying the German bishops’ plans, which include addressing issues of priestly celibacy, the role of women, and sexual morality, will be “helpful” to the Church.

“Countless believers in Germany consider [these issues] to be in need of discussion,” Marx wrote to Cardinal Marc Ouellet of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops.


More than 200,000 Catholics left the Church in Germany in 2018 and Mass attendance in that country continues to plummet. Germans are leaving Protestantism in droves, too.

“We hope that the results of forming an opinion [on these matters] in our country will also be helpful for the guidance of the Universal Church and for other episcopal conferences on a case-by-case basis. In any case, I cannot see why questions about which the Magisterium has made determinations should be withdrawn from any debate, as your writings suggest,” Marx wrote, as reported by Catholic News Agency.

Marx told Ouellet the German bishops’ synod will proceed, despite a document from the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts detailing the canonical problems with their approach that accompanied Ouellet’s initial warning to him. Marx also said the synod is neither a council nor a synod – both of which are defined in some sense in canon law – but rather a unique “process”: “The Synodal Way is a sui generis process. The draft statutes should therefore by no means be read and interpreted through the lens of canonical instruments such as a plenary council. It is not a Particular Council!”

A spokesperson for the German bishops had downplayed Ouellet’s letter to Marx, saying the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts’ document was based on an earlier draft of the German synod’s statutes. Marx repeated this in his letter to Ouellet, saying the Vatican critique was based off of an “outdated” version of the German bishops’ plans.

The German bishops have been at the forefront of pushing heterodoxy in the Church. They were one of the main forces arguing for admittance to Holy Communion of couples in adulterous relationships, what critics say amounts to sacrilege. They are financing many of the preparations for the Amazon Synod, during
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CNA reported Sept. 5 that the executive committee of the German bishops’ conference in August had approved draft statutes for the creation of a Synodal Assembly, in partnership with the Central Committee of German Catholics, a lay group that has called for the ordination of women, an end to clerical celibacy, and the blessing of same-sex unions in churches.

At the same meeting, the German bishops’ executive committee rejected an alternative synodal plan that was drafted to reflect the instructions of Pope Francis, issued to the bishops in a June letter to all the faithful of Germany. Those instructions warned the bishops against falling into a “new Pelagianism” and insisted that synodality could not be used as an excuse for reducing Church governance and teaching to a democratic process.

In his Sept. 12 letter to Cardinal Ouellet, Cardinal Marx registered his apparent disapproval at the Vatican’s decision to present its legal advice without consulting him first.

“Perhaps a conversation before sending these documents would have been helpful,” Cardinal Marx wrote.

In an apparent rejection of the Vatican’s legal assessment, Cardinal Marx added that the Church in Germany will “conduct a consultation of our own kind that is not covered by canon law.”

The legal opinion of the Pontifical Commission for Legislative Texts, sent to the Germans by Cardinal Ouellet, concluded that the bishops seem intent on convening a particular council “without using the word” as a means of passing binding resolutions without Roman approval.

A council differs from a synod in that, with Vatican approval, it is able to make new policies for the Church for a particular reason.

But Cardinal Marx said Germany’s plans are not for a council, or even a synod in the traditional sense, but something unique and not anticipated by canon law.

“The Synodal Way is a sui generis process,” Cardinal Marx wrote. “The draft statutes should therefore by no means be read and interpreted through the lens of canonical instruments such as a plenary council. It is not a Particular Council!”

The cardinal’s letter also insisted that the Vatican legal assessment is based on a draft of the German plans that “has long been outdated” and had since been “further developed in July and August.”

The version of the statutes passed by the German bishops’ executive committee on Aug. 19 was obtained and published by CNA.

While Cardinal Marx noted that the statutes include a recognition of the authority of both the diocesan bishop and the episcopal conference, Article 2 of the current statues say that the Synodal Assembly “has deliberative power.”

Despite Cardinal Marx’s insistence to Cardinal Ouellet that the statutes underwent further changes in August, CNA has obtained internal documents from the German bishops’ conference that show that the statutes most recently voted on by the executive committee were drafted Aug. 1 and remained unchanged through the end of that month.

CNA has confirmed with officials at both the Congregation for Bishops and the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts that the Vatican was already in possession of the most recent draft of the German synodal statutes by the time Cardinal Ouellet’s letter was sent to Cardinal Marx on Sept. 4.

The current version was also considered by Cardinal Marx to be sufficiently finalized that he instructed conference officials to prepare authorized translations of the statues in various languages following the Aug. 19 meeting. Senior conference officials told CNA that it is the intention of the German bishops to create an example that can be “exported” to other parts of the world.

The results will be “helpful for the guidance of the universal Church and for other episcopal conferences,” Cardinal Marx wrote.

The text of Cardinal Marx’s letter was released to German media over the weekend, appearing in Frankfurter Allgemeine on Saturday.

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Threat of Schism Comes From Germany, Not United States
COMMENTARY: An American-led schism seems so remote as to be impossible, whereas Germany’s bishops are openly defying Pope Francis.
Father Raymond J. de Souza
Talk of schism in the Church is “promiscuous” now, writes New York Times columnist Ross Douthat. Pope Francis addressed it at length on his return flight from Madagascar. But where is the danger of schism? It is far more likely from Germany, where bishops are openly defying the Holy Father, than from the United States.

The question of potential schism was raised on the recent papal flights to and from Africa. On the outbound flight, presented with a book accusing some Americans of plotting to overthrow the Pope, the Holy Father said that “it is an honor when the Americans attack me.”

Papal spokesman Matteo Bruni then quickly turned that inside out to mean that the Holy Father greatly respects American viewpoints. That didn’t fly with the press corps, so Pope Francis was asked about it on the flight home, in response to which he confessed that he didn’t want schism, but “did not fear it.”

Also on the plane to Mozambique, Pope Francis, answering a question about concerns raised by Cardinal Gerhard Müller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, said: “He has good intentions; he is a good man. The Pope likes him. But he is like a child.”

Despite being reported by German and Austrian Catholic news agencies, the Holy See Press Office did not comment upon that astonishing characterization of the accomplished theologian.

The two comments together invite consideration of where the schismatic danger, if it exists, lies.

An American-led schism seems so remote as to be impossible.

There is a not a single U.S. bishop who has said or done anything that would point toward anything even approaching schism. That there are sectors of U.S. Catholic opinion that are critical — even hostile — to Pope Francis is true, but internet chatter does not a schism make.

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Messori is famous all over the world for his talks with Cardinal Ratzinger and Pope John Paul II. "We are told that it is the Church of Mercy," he continues, but officials do not tolerate any critical voice.

According to Messori, a committee linked to the "magic circle" of Francis was created to ask the Corriere della Sera to separate from him as a collaborator,

"How can they claim that this is the Church of Mercy? , open and loyal dialogue,

Messori believes that "the forces of evil will not prevail" because "the Church does not belong to Bergoglio".

He regretted that conformism was widespread and that only a few former cardinals spoke, but he thought that there were still "many" bishops and even cardinals who did not agree in private meetings but who "are afraid and keep silent".

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Amazon archbishop backs married priests, making women ‘ordinary’ ministers of Eucharist

QUITO, Ecuador, September 17, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) ― An Ecuadorian archbishop has backed the ordination of married men from remote parts of the Amazon and has stated that women should be made “ordinary” ministers of the Eucharist.

Archbishop Rafael Cob, of the Diocese of Puyo, Ecuador, told a group of journalists, including Inés San Martín of Crux, that he wants to see the Catholic Church shift from a “clerical institution” to a “ministerial” one. This will permit the ordination of married viri probati, or “tested men,” from the Amazon region to the priesthood so that they can celebrate Mass in remote parts of the jungle.

Cob stated that the Church had had married priests “from the beginning” and that celibacy was not mandatory before the Council of Nicea in the fourth century. He characterized the decision as a matter of convenience for the Church and that this decision “didn’t mean that there were no other alternatives.”


However, this minimized the serious theological reasons that priests of the Early Church did not marry or did not have marital relations with their wives.

“To say that clerical celibacy is a matter of the Church's convenience, or merely a disciplinary matter, is misleading, since while the Church has on occasion allowed the ordination of married men, celibacy and continence are theologically connected with the inner nature of the priesthood, and have been throughout the history of the Church,” Dr. Joseph Shaw told LifeSiteNews.

A tutorial fellow in Philosophy at St. Benet’s Hall in Oxford University, Shaw pointed out via email that bishops, who have the fullness of the priesthood, must be celibate in both the Western and the Eastern Churches, with no exceptions, and that “this is in many ways very inconvenient.”

He also noted that married clerics in both the Eastern and Western Churches―whether priests or deacons―who are widowed are not allowed to remarry, and that, like the rule for bishops, this rule can be explained only theologically.

“Clerical celibacy is connected to the priesthood by the example of Christ,” Shaw stated
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Why do Pope Francis and his defenders keep talking about schism?
Catholic, Pope Francis, Raymond Burke, Schism

September 17, 2019 (CatholicCulture.org

Ross Douthat of the New York Times admits that he used the term "schism" long ago, as a theoretical possibility — which he now (rightly) regards as remote. But now Pope Francis speaks calmly about the prospect of schism, and even says that it does not frighten him — which, as I've pointed out, is frightening in itself.


How did we come so far, so fast? How did we reach a point at which the nation's most prestigious secular newspaper raises the notion that American Catholics might split from the universal Church, and the Pontiff treats that prospect as a serious possibility?

Have the Pope's American critics threatened to break with Rome? Never! Quite the contrary, the most important critics of this pontificate insist that they — we — are doing our utmost to preserve the unity of the universal Church, to maintain our strong ties with "all who hold and teach the catholic faith that comes to us from the apostles." Cardinal Raymond Burke, often cited as the leader of a rebellious faction, has in fact repeatedly and adamantly pledged his loyalty to the Roman Pontiff. One cannot cause a schism by defending

(One can, on the other hand, cause a schism by holding a meeting of a nation's bishops, seeking to change teachings of the universal Church, and ignoring admonitions from the Holy See to drop this divisive plan — as the leaders of the German bishops' conference are doing right now. Yet when the New York Times mentions schism, the threat is said to come from "some conservatives — especially in the United States," rather than from the rambunctious "progressives" in Germany.)

So again I ask: How did this conversation arise, about the alleged threat of an American schism. And if you follow Catholic conversations on the internet, you know the answer. The topic has been raised — and promoted, and repeated, and touted as an imminent threat — by the Pope's busiest and most aggressive online defenders.

Which prompts another question: Why are these folks — who have so enthusiastically championed the Pope's moves to alter Church teachings on issues such as marriage and the Eucharist — so anxious to talk about breaking with the Pope? And again I think I know the answer.

Why did President Lincoln maneuver the Confederacy into the bombardment of Fort Sumter? Because he saw that war was imminent, and he wanted the South to take the first shots. Similarly, the most "progressive" Catholics recognize that they cannot engineer the radical changes they want without precipitating a split in the Church. So they want orthodox Catholics to break away first, leaving them free to enact their own revolutionary agenda.

So let me conclude with a heartfelt plea to my fellow Catholics, and especially to my more excitable friends on the internet. Don't take the bait. We are not thinking of schism. We are thinking of — and working and praying for — the preservation of Catholic unity, a unity that keeps us in full communion not only with the Bishop of Rome and with our fellow Catholics around the world today, but also with all the faithful Catholics of previous generations. It's our Church: the Church of the apostles and saints and martyrs and of us poor sinners. We're not leaving. Hell no; we won't go.

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Why do Pope Francis and his defenders keep talking about schism?
Catholic, Pope Francis, Raymond Burke, Schism

September 17, 2019 (CatholicCulture.org

Ross Douthat of the New York Times admits that he used the term "schism" long ago, as a theoretical possibility — which he now (rightly) regards as remote. But now Pope Francis speaks calmly about the prospect of schism, and even says that it does not frighten him — which, as I've pointed out, is frightening in itself.


How did we come so far, so fast? How did we reach a point at which the nation's most prestigious secular newspaper raises the notion that American Catholics might split from the universal Church, and the Pontiff treats that prospect as a serious possibility?

Have the Pope's American critics threatened to break with Rome? Never! Quite the contrary, the most important critics of this pontificate insist that they — we — are doing our utmost to preserve the unity of the universal Church, to maintain our strong ties with "all who hold and teach the catholic faith that comes to us from the apostles." Cardinal Raymond Burke, often cited as the leader of a rebellious faction, has in fact repeatedly and adamantly pledged his loyalty to the Roman Pontiff. One cannot cause a schism by defending

(One can, on the other hand, cause a schism by holding a meeting of a nation's bishops, seeking to change teachings of the universal Church, and ignoring admonitions from the Holy See to drop this divisive plan — as the leaders of the German bishops' conference are doing right now. Yet when the New York Times mentions schism, the threat is said to come from "some conservatives — especially in the United States," rather than from the rambunctious "progressives" in Germany.)

So again I ask: How did this conversation arise, about the alleged threat of an American schism. And if you follow Catholic conversations on the internet, you know the answer. The topic has been raised — and promoted, and repeated, and touted as an imminent threat — by the Pope's busiest and most aggressive online defenders.

Which prompts another question: Why are these folks — who have so enthusiastically championed the Pope's moves to alter Church teachings on issues such as marriage and the Eucharist — so anxious to talk about breaking with the Pope? And again I think I know the answer.

Why did President Lincoln maneuver the Confederacy into the bombardment of Fort Sumter? Because he saw that war was imminent, and he wanted the South to take the first shots. Similarly, the most "progressive" Catholics recognize that they cannot engineer the radical changes they want without precipitating a split in the Church. So they want orthodox Catholics to break away first, leaving them free to enact their own revolutionary agenda.

So let me conclude with a heartfelt plea to my fellow Catholics, and especially to my more excitable friends on the internet. Don't take the bait. We are not thinking of schism. We are thinking of — and working and praying for — the preservation of Catholic unity, a unity that keeps us in full communion not only with the Bishop of Rome and with our fellow Catholics around the world today, but also with all the faithful Catholics of previous generations. It's our Church: the Church of the apostles and saints and martyrs and of us poor sinners. We're not leaving. Hell no; we won't go.

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Pope Francis invites religious, political leaders to sign ‘Global Pact’ for ‘new humanism

OME, September 13, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) — In a renewed and enthusiastic endorsement of globalism, Pope Francis has announced he is hosting an initiative for a “Global Pact” to create a “new humanism.”

The global event, set to take place at the Vatican on May 14, 2020, is themed Reinventing the Global Educational Alliance.

According to a Vatican statement issued on Thursday, Sept. 12, the Pope is inviting representatives of the main religions, international organizations and various humanitarian institutions, as well as key figures from the world of politics, economics and academia, and prominent athletes, scientists and sociologists to sign a “Global Pact on Education” so as to “hand on to younger generations a united and fraternal common home.”

A global educational pact is needed to educate us in universal solidarity and a new humanism,” Francis said in a video message to launch the initiative.

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Admittedly, the honor and glory for it belong first of all to God, Who enlightens all men and inspires them at times to do things mere mortals could never conceive of. But also, thanks goes to God for sending Our Lady to Fatima to reveal to Sr. Lucia a secret which has until this day remained hidden, so as to give sound counsel to the true Successor of Saint Peter in the End Times.

How Pope John Paul II strengthened the Bulwark of the Church against the AntiChurch
I believe that with that knowledge, Pope John Paul II did 3 things: first, he chose Joseph Ratzinger to come to Rome and prepared him to succeed him (perhaps because he sensed that Ratzinger had the gift of prophecy); second, in 1983, he added the term munus to canon 332 §2, to constrain all of his successors to the obligation of renouncing the Petrine Munus so as to resign the papacy; and third, in 1996, he promulgated a new law on Papal Elections, which would nullify any attempt of the AntiChurch to usurp the Papacy or elect successors to AntiPopes (by requiring that all valid conclaves meet within 20 days after the death of valid popes).

Pope John Paul II warned the Church of the AntiChurch which was rising. He beatified Ann Catherine Emmerich (on the Vigil of St. Francis of Assisi, in 2004) to give papal approval to her own visions in this regard. It should not be surprising then, that in secret, or I should say, in the bright light of day, in papal acts he prepared the Church against that Evil to come!

By these three acts, Pope John Paul II set the chess board and enabled his chosen successor, Ratzinger to enact a stratagem of deception to defeat the forces of darkness.

The Forces of the AntiChurch struck quickly
No sooner than Pope John Paul II had died that the St Gallen Mafia, which had been meeting in that Swiss town for some years, mobilized to put Bergoglio on the Apostolic Throne in the Conclave of 2005

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in 1983, he added the term munus to canon 332 §2, to constrain all of his successors to the obligation of renouncing the Petrine Munus so as to resign the papacy; and third, in 1996, he promulgated a new law on Papal Elections, which would nullify any attempt of the AntiChurch to usurp the Papacy or elect successors to AntiPopes (by requiring that all valid conclaves meet within 20 days after the death of valid pop Thread: How Benedict(pope) has defeated “Francis”

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Plans to remake Church with ‘Amazonian face’ began with Pope Francis’ 2013 election


2019: Amazon Synod working document released
February 2019: The Vatican organized a three-day conference in preparation for the Amazon Synod, with more than 80 participants from all over the world.

March 2019: REPAM goes to Washington, D.C. in order to present the Amazon Synod and some of its main goals. The Jesuits are involved in hosting the group.

April 4-6, 2019: There quietly took place a conference organized by REPAM and Amerindia, a group of liberation theologians, which then produced a larger document questioning many tenets of the Catholic Church's doctrine. It calls, for example, for the ordination of female deacons, if not of female priests. The German relief agency Misereor co-funded the booklet.

May 14-15, 2019: The second meeting of the pre-synodal council took place in the Vatican, with the council approving the Synod's Working Document.

June 17, 2019: The Working Document (Instrumentum Laboris) for the October 6-27 Pan-Amazon Synod was published.

June 26, 2019: There took place a secret study meeting near Rome, with Cardinals Hummes and Kasper, Bishop Kräutler, Paulo Suess, and many other key figures present. A final statement of that event called for female deacons. One of the participants of this event is Father Michael Czerny, a co-secretary of the Amazon Synod's pre-synodal council. Upon request for information, Czerny declined to answer, referring LifeSiteNews abstractly to the website of REPAM. He has just been named as one of the 13 prelates soon to be made cardinals.

July 2019: Fr. Pirmin Spiegel – participant at the February Rome conference and head of Misereor, a German episcopal relief agency heavily involved in funding the Synod – proposes the ordination of married men and of female deacons.

Steering of Synod?
This short overview gives the impression that the Amazon Synod is being organized mostly by a close-knit group of people who have been working for years together, trying to advance their agenda that is influenced by Liberation Theology. The fact that this is not being disclosed – not even upon media request – supports the suspicion that this synod, too, is being steered into a certain direction, as it was the case with the two family synods.

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Cardinal Sarah’s Cri de Coeur: The Catholic Church Has Lost Its Sense of the Sacred
Exclusive interview with the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
Edward Pentin
Cardinal Robert Sarah has said the Synod of Bishops on the Pan-Amazon Region, being a regional assembly of bishops, is not the forum to discuss priestly celibacy — a subject that is “unbearable” for the modern world because “some Westerners can no longer tolerate this scandal of the cross.”

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In the conclusion of my book, I speak of this poison of which we are all victims: liquid atheism. It infiltrates everything, even our speeches as clergymen. It consists in admitting, alongside faith, radically pagan and worldly ways of thinking or living. And we satisfy ourselves with this unnatural cohabitation! This shows that our faith has become liquid and inconsistent! The first reform to be made is in our hearts. It consists in no longer making a pact with lies. Faith is both the treasure we want to defend and the strength that allows us to defend it.

This movement which consists of “putting God aside,” making God a secondary reality, has touched the hearts of priests and bishops.

God does not occupy the center of their lives, thoughts and actions. The life of prayer is no longer central. I am convinced that priests must proclaim the centrality of God through their own lives. A Church where the priest no longer carries this message is a Church that is sick. The life of a priest must proclaim to the world that “God alone is enough,” that prayer, that is, this intimate and personal relationship, is the heart of his life. This is the profound reason for priestly celibacy.

The forgetting of God finds its first and most serious manifestation in the secularized way of life of priests. They are the first to have to carry the Good News. If their personal lives do not reflect this, then practical atheism will spread throughout the Church and society.

I believe that we are at a turning point in the history of the Church. Yes, the Church needs a profound and radical reform that must begin with a reform of the way of being and the way of life of priests. The Church is holy in herself. But we prevent this holiness from shining through our sins and worldly concerns.read...