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VATICAN DAMAGE CONTROL: NUN ADMITS AMAZON WOMEN ACTING IN PRIESTS’ ROLES
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Religious sisters in the Amazon are "celebrating" marriages and hearing confession without giving absolution
VATICAN CITY (Church Militant.com) - The Vatican is in damage control mode after a comment made by a religious sister revealing that women in the Amazon are already acting like priests.
On Monday, the first day of discussions and presentations of the Synod regarding the priesthood crisis in the Amazon, Sr. Alba Teresa Cediel Castillo, a member of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate and of St. Catherine of Siena, an order of sisters from Colombia, revealed that sisters and other women are doing some sacramental duties reserved to priests.
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Responding to a question in a Vatican presser regarding the role of women religious in the Amazon, she said, "We focus on education, on healthcare, we carry out projects. We help the indigenous people to develop their own projects promoting development."
"In all of these places, what do we do?" She continued:
Well, everything that a woman can do, starting from baptism, as prophets and priests, as women priests we accompany people during all events when priests cannot be there. If there is need for a baptism we baptize children. If there is a possibility of marrying, if anybody wishes to get married, we can do that, we can celebrate the marriage. And sometimes we also have to listen to confessions. Of course we cannot give absolution, but at the bottom of our hearts we place ourselves in the position of listening with humbleness thinking about the person who comes to us for a word of comfort. Somebody who, perhaps, before death.
Castillo continues, "At the moment we are working at the inter-congregational level in itinerant teams of men and women who travel on canoe and we cross these huge Amazonian rivers and women's role within the Church, in my opinion too, has to become greater."
She added, "We will get there but little by little. We cannot exert too much pressure. I think that through dialogue, through meeting we will be able to respond to the many challenges."
Faithful Catholics are responding strongly on social media, calling it an attempt to co-opt the male priesthood.
Vatican News Agency, however, issued a different rendition of Castillo's comments in an article published on Tuesday, titled "Amazonia: the women religious who 'hear confessions,'" after Catholics expressed alarm.
Rather than using the Vatican's translator, who rendered an almost literal translation of Castillo's words, the article paraphrases.
It adds the gloss, "If someone wants to get married, we are present and we witness to the love of the couple."
The Church does teach the sacrament of baptism can be administered by somebody who is not a priest or deacon in the case of an emergency, namely, if the person is in immediate danger of death.
Synod leaders like Cdl. Lorenzo Baldisseri are claiming the Amazon Synod's outlining document isn't authoritative and represents "the voice of the local church."
In an interview with National Public Radio, Fr. Peter Hughes, an Irish missionary to Latin America, said, "The people of the Amazon, as we all know, have their own vision, their own cosmic vision of reality, where all of life is interconnected," adding, "This mantra of interconnectedness that the pope underlines is the bedrock of his spirituality and of Christian spirituality."
Synods never had anything to do with changing doctrine or with changing discipline, said Cdl. Burke.Tweet
This was made evident on Saturday when the Pope Francis was present for a pagan tree-planting ceremony in the Vatican gardens.
A female shaman led the ceremony with people bowing, including a Franciscan friar, in apparent worship of the earth.
Austin Ivereigh, a British journalist and apologist for Pope Francis, claimed the ceremony was Catholic and that wooden statues representing two naked and pregnant women were not pagan idols but images of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Elizabeth.
In a presser follow-up, however, an Amazonian missionary bishop commented that the statues represent "Mother Earth, fertility, woman, life" and not the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Prominent theologians are condemning the agenda of the synod. American Cdl. Raymond Burke called the synod apostasy and "a direct attack on the Lordship of Christ."
"The fundamental concept of a synod was to call together representatives of the clergy and the laypeople to see how the Church could more effectively teach and more effectively apply her discipline," he said.
"Synods never had anything to do with changing doctrine or with changing discipline," Burke went on to say, adding, "It was all meant to be a way of furthering the mission of the Church."
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Religious sisters in the Amazon are "celebrating" marriages and hearing confession without giving absolution
VATICAN CITY (Church Militant.com) - The Vatican is in damage control mode after a comment made by a religious sister revealing that women in the Amazon are already acting like priests.
On Monday, the first day of discussions and presentations of the Synod regarding the priesthood crisis in the Amazon, Sr. Alba Teresa Cediel Castillo, a member of the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate and of St. Catherine of Siena, an order of sisters from Colombia, revealed that sisters and other women are doing some sacramental duties reserved to priests.
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Responding to a question in a Vatican presser regarding the role of women religious in the Amazon, she said, "We focus on education, on healthcare, we carry out projects. We help the indigenous people to develop their own projects promoting development."
"In all of these places, what do we do?" She continued:
Well, everything that a woman can do, starting from baptism, as prophets and priests, as women priests we accompany people during all events when priests cannot be there. If there is need for a baptism we baptize children. If there is a possibility of marrying, if anybody wishes to get married, we can do that, we can celebrate the marriage. And sometimes we also have to listen to confessions. Of course we cannot give absolution, but at the bottom of our hearts we place ourselves in the position of listening with humbleness thinking about the person who comes to us for a word of comfort. Somebody who, perhaps, before death.
Castillo continues, "At the moment we are working at the inter-congregational level in itinerant teams of men and women who travel on canoe and we cross these huge Amazonian rivers and women's role within the Church, in my opinion too, has to become greater."
She added, "We will get there but little by little. We cannot exert too much pressure. I think that through dialogue, through meeting we will be able to respond to the many challenges."
Faithful Catholics are responding strongly on social media, calling it an attempt to co-opt the male priesthood.
Vatican News Agency, however, issued a different rendition of Castillo's comments in an article published on Tuesday, titled "Amazonia: the women religious who 'hear confessions,'" after Catholics expressed alarm.
Rather than using the Vatican's translator, who rendered an almost literal translation of Castillo's words, the article paraphrases.
It adds the gloss, "If someone wants to get married, we are present and we witness to the love of the couple."
The Church does teach the sacrament of baptism can be administered by somebody who is not a priest or deacon in the case of an emergency, namely, if the person is in immediate danger of death.
Synod leaders like Cdl. Lorenzo Baldisseri are claiming the Amazon Synod's outlining document isn't authoritative and represents "the voice of the local church."
In an interview with National Public Radio, Fr. Peter Hughes, an Irish missionary to Latin America, said, "The people of the Amazon, as we all know, have their own vision, their own cosmic vision of reality, where all of life is interconnected," adding, "This mantra of interconnectedness that the pope underlines is the bedrock of his spirituality and of Christian spirituality."
Synods never had anything to do with changing doctrine or with changing discipline, said Cdl. Burke.Tweet
This was made evident on Saturday when the Pope Francis was present for a pagan tree-planting ceremony in the Vatican gardens.
A female shaman led the ceremony with people bowing, including a Franciscan friar, in apparent worship of the earth.
Austin Ivereigh, a British journalist and apologist for Pope Francis, claimed the ceremony was Catholic and that wooden statues representing two naked and pregnant women were not pagan idols but images of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Elizabeth.
In a presser follow-up, however, an Amazonian missionary bishop commented that the statues represent "Mother Earth, fertility, woman, life" and not the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Prominent theologians are condemning the agenda of the synod. American Cdl. Raymond Burke called the synod apostasy and "a direct attack on the Lordship of Christ."
"The fundamental concept of a synod was to call together representatives of the clergy and the laypeople to see how the Church could more effectively teach and more effectively apply her discipline," he said.
"Synods never had anything to do with changing doctrine or with changing discipline," Burke went on to say, adding, "It was all meant to be a way of furthering the mission of the Church."
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CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVIST GRETA THUNBERG PRAISED AT AMAZON SYNOD
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VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - On the second day of the Amazon synod, the synod fathers favorably mentioned Swedish climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg and the climate strike initiative.
Discussing the Instrumentum Laboris (working document) for the synod and considering the 2018 Synod on Youth, the synod fathers talked about the importance of young proponents for an "integral ecology," according to the Vatican synod website.
We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.Tweet
Bishop Joseph Strickland of the diocese of Tyler, Texas, spoke to Church Militant, describing the Synod Father's recent discussions as "gobbledygook" and "crazy."
"It is like a bad novel that you wouldn't think would make the press," he said.
The discussion for an "integral ecology" led to a prompt and favorable mention by synod fathers of Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate-change activist who has become a household name among progressives and liberals.
Thunberg recently dominated headlines for her speech Sept. 23 to the United Nations' Climate Action Summit in New York City.
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones," said an angry and teary-eyed Thunberg.
"People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth," she continued, ending with an expression of indignation: "How dare you!"
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The synod fathers then spoke of the "option for young people," the necessity of dialoguing with the youth on matters pertaining to the protection of creation and the need to increase the involvement of youth who can inspire the Church to be prophetic in this field.
Young people want to make a better world because they represent "a social doctrine on the move," according to the synod website, which continues:
More than many others, young people today feel the need to establish a new relationship with Creation, a relationship that is not exploitative, but attentive to the suffering of the planet. For this reason, the environmental theme, which is also ecumenical and interreligious, should be seen by the Church as a positive challenge. It is an invitation to dialogue with young people, to help them in their discernment. In this way, their commitment to protecting Creation is not only a "green and fashionable" slogan, but really becomes a question of life and death, for humanity and for the planet.
The synod fathers also discussed protecting the water table (the upper surface of the zone of saturation), fossil fuels and climate change, indigenous rites and the question of viri probati (married men becoming priests).
One synod father offered the possibility of the Church incorporating into the liturgy elements of indigenous culture not connected to superstition, which led to a discussion of such inculturation already existing in the celebration of some sacraments like baptism, matrimony and priestly ordination.
It was proposed that an ad experimentum Amazonian Rite could be established in accord with liturgical and pastoral theological discernment: "At the base of these reflections in the Synod Hall, was the point that just as there exists an environmental ecosystem, there also exists an ecclesial ecosystem."
The environmental theme, which is also ecumenical and interreligious, should be seen by the Church as a positive challenge.Tweet
The synod fathers also began to discuss the question of married men becoming priests.
The much-discussed Instrumentum Laboris suggests the possibility of married men becoming priests to combat the priest shortage and to ensure the sacraments are offered frequently in remote areas.
According to the synod website: "An intervention highlighted though that this cannot result in a substantial revision of the nature of the priesthood and its relationship with celibacy as envisaged in the Latin Rite of the Church."
Moema Maria Marques de Miranda, a lay Franciscan, was the final speaker at the synod, and was also quick to praise Thunberg.
She said that this is the first generation to face the possibility of the world ending, noting that Pope Francis shares this alarmist view.
Since it is only in recent decades that the interconnectedness of the world has been recognized, according to Miranda, the world should learn from indigenous people how to live with creation in harmony.
She went on to say that those like Pope Francis and Thunberg show where things are at this moment in history.
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VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - On the second day of the Amazon synod, the synod fathers favorably mentioned Swedish climate change alarmist Greta Thunberg and the climate strike initiative.
Discussing the Instrumentum Laboris (working document) for the synod and considering the 2018 Synod on Youth, the synod fathers talked about the importance of young proponents for an "integral ecology," according to the Vatican synod website.
We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.Tweet
Bishop Joseph Strickland of the diocese of Tyler, Texas, spoke to Church Militant, describing the Synod Father's recent discussions as "gobbledygook" and "crazy."
"It is like a bad novel that you wouldn't think would make the press," he said.
The discussion for an "integral ecology" led to a prompt and favorable mention by synod fathers of Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish climate-change activist who has become a household name among progressives and liberals.
Thunberg recently dominated headlines for her speech Sept. 23 to the United Nations' Climate Action Summit in New York City.
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones," said an angry and teary-eyed Thunberg.
"People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth," she continued, ending with an expression of indignation: "How dare you!"
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The synod fathers then spoke of the "option for young people," the necessity of dialoguing with the youth on matters pertaining to the protection of creation and the need to increase the involvement of youth who can inspire the Church to be prophetic in this field.
Young people want to make a better world because they represent "a social doctrine on the move," according to the synod website, which continues:
More than many others, young people today feel the need to establish a new relationship with Creation, a relationship that is not exploitative, but attentive to the suffering of the planet. For this reason, the environmental theme, which is also ecumenical and interreligious, should be seen by the Church as a positive challenge. It is an invitation to dialogue with young people, to help them in their discernment. In this way, their commitment to protecting Creation is not only a "green and fashionable" slogan, but really becomes a question of life and death, for humanity and for the planet.
The synod fathers also discussed protecting the water table (the upper surface of the zone of saturation), fossil fuels and climate change, indigenous rites and the question of viri probati (married men becoming priests).
One synod father offered the possibility of the Church incorporating into the liturgy elements of indigenous culture not connected to superstition, which led to a discussion of such inculturation already existing in the celebration of some sacraments like baptism, matrimony and priestly ordination.
It was proposed that an ad experimentum Amazonian Rite could be established in accord with liturgical and pastoral theological discernment: "At the base of these reflections in the Synod Hall, was the point that just as there exists an environmental ecosystem, there also exists an ecclesial ecosystem."
The environmental theme, which is also ecumenical and interreligious, should be seen by the Church as a positive challenge.Tweet
The synod fathers also began to discuss the question of married men becoming priests.
The much-discussed Instrumentum Laboris suggests the possibility of married men becoming priests to combat the priest shortage and to ensure the sacraments are offered frequently in remote areas.
According to the synod website: "An intervention highlighted though that this cannot result in a substantial revision of the nature of the priesthood and its relationship with celibacy as envisaged in the Latin Rite of the Church."
Moema Maria Marques de Miranda, a lay Franciscan, was the final speaker at the synod, and was also quick to praise Thunberg.
She said that this is the first generation to face the possibility of the world ending, noting that Pope Francis shares this alarmist view.
Since it is only in recent decades that the interconnectedness of the world has been recognized, according to Miranda, the world should learn from indigenous people how to live with creation in harmony.
She went on to say that those like Pope Francis and Thunberg show where things are at this moment in history.
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ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholic Churches in Rome have been draped in pagan images and symbols since the beginning of the Amazon Synod.
Banner on side altar of Santa Maria
in Transpontina featuring indigenous
woman suckling an animal
At first glance, the pagan modifications appear to represent indigenous people but, according to faithful Catholics, represent the culmination of "the travesties of the modernist movement."
For example, the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontinain Rome, dating from the 16th century — and a stone’s throw from St. Peter's Basilica — has been transformed into a shrine to Amazonian indigenous culture — as well as liberation theology.
The ancient Carmelite church displays a magic circle blanket resting atop the ancient marble floor of a side altar and is adorned with indigenous objects of pagan Mother earth worship.
Scattered about the circle are two wooden statues of a naked pregnant woman, a musical pipe, a rattle, wooden bowls, and a wooden boat situated at the edge of the circle.
Images of two liberation theology martyrs provide a backdrop for the circle.
Among the objects is a photo of Xicão Xukuru, chief of the Xukuru do Ororubá people from Pernambuco of Northeast Brazil and who sought to bring back "the ancient rituals that were suppressed by the white man."
Xukuru was murdered in 1998 and buried in a coffin bearing a crucifix, although the burial included a Mother Earth ritual at which these words were recited:
Receive your son, my Mother Nature. He won't be buried, He will be planted so that from him new warriors will be born, my Mother Nature. He will be planted, my Mother Nature, the way he wanted, under your shadow, my Mother Nature. To give life to new warriors, my Mother Nature. So that our fight won't stop, my Mother Nature.
Next to the image of Xukuru is an image of Dorothy Stang, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, who was killed in 2005 in the Amazon region of Brazil when she had been working as a missionary in connection to struggles for agrarian reform.
A banner of an Amazonian woman suckling an animal while she holds a human baby also adorns one of Santa Maria's side chapels. The banner reads in part: todo está conectado ("everything is connected").
Throughout his encyclical Laudato Sí (2015) Pope Francis wrote that “everything is connected.” The theme that humankind is connected to the ecosystems, and social problems such as poverty and technological development are connected to human misuse of the natural environment, runs through his document.
Francis also refers to an "environmental crisis" and claims "the symptoms of sickness [are] evident in the soil, in the water, in the air, and in all forms of life."
Critics have viewed the encyclical as a political, rather than a spiritual, document and described it as "pessimistic," sounding more like "Environmental Defense Fund propaganda."
According to his critics, Francis provided politically driven "environmentalists a motherlode of propaganda soundbites as well as rhetorical ammunition to make an appeal to papal authority in support of their agenda" in Laudato Sí.
In speaking with Church Militant, George Neumayr, American Spectator reporter, who took the photos of the pagan displays, explained the draping of Rome's churches in pagan paraphernalia in historical terms.
"Francis' Church's wallowing in nature worship is one of the culminating travesties of modernism," he told Church Militant, "the plunge into paganism past popes predicted would happen if clerics rejected Thomism and adopted the subjectivism of the misnamed 'Enlightenment.'"
Neumayr's comment alludes to Pope St. Pius X's warning about the dangers of modernism in the early 20th century.
Pope St. Pius X
The sainted pope warned of the danger of modernism in his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis in which he explicitly laid out the dangers of modernism that are often buried in "clever artifice":
But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage ... to bring their teachings together here into one group ... .
The anti-modernist pope stated: "I am completely opposed to the error of the modernists who hold that there is nothing divine in sacred tradition."
The covering of traditional symbols of the Catholic Church with pagan symbols of the Amazonian indigenous people and political slogans of liberation theology represent a jolt to tradition-minded Catholics, striking them more as indoctrination rather than elucidation of sacred precepts.
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ROME (ChurchMilitant.com) - Catholic Churches in Rome have been draped in pagan images and symbols since the beginning of the Amazon Synod.
Banner on side altar of Santa Maria
in Transpontina featuring indigenous
woman suckling an animal
At first glance, the pagan modifications appear to represent indigenous people but, according to faithful Catholics, represent the culmination of "the travesties of the modernist movement."
For example, the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontinain Rome, dating from the 16th century — and a stone’s throw from St. Peter's Basilica — has been transformed into a shrine to Amazonian indigenous culture — as well as liberation theology.
The ancient Carmelite church displays a magic circle blanket resting atop the ancient marble floor of a side altar and is adorned with indigenous objects of pagan Mother earth worship.
Scattered about the circle are two wooden statues of a naked pregnant woman, a musical pipe, a rattle, wooden bowls, and a wooden boat situated at the edge of the circle.
Images of two liberation theology martyrs provide a backdrop for the circle.
Among the objects is a photo of Xicão Xukuru, chief of the Xukuru do Ororubá people from Pernambuco of Northeast Brazil and who sought to bring back "the ancient rituals that were suppressed by the white man."
Xukuru was murdered in 1998 and buried in a coffin bearing a crucifix, although the burial included a Mother Earth ritual at which these words were recited:
Receive your son, my Mother Nature. He won't be buried, He will be planted so that from him new warriors will be born, my Mother Nature. He will be planted, my Mother Nature, the way he wanted, under your shadow, my Mother Nature. To give life to new warriors, my Mother Nature. So that our fight won't stop, my Mother Nature.
Next to the image of Xukuru is an image of Dorothy Stang, a Sister of Notre Dame de Namur, who was killed in 2005 in the Amazon region of Brazil when she had been working as a missionary in connection to struggles for agrarian reform.
A banner of an Amazonian woman suckling an animal while she holds a human baby also adorns one of Santa Maria's side chapels. The banner reads in part: todo está conectado ("everything is connected").
Throughout his encyclical Laudato Sí (2015) Pope Francis wrote that “everything is connected.” The theme that humankind is connected to the ecosystems, and social problems such as poverty and technological development are connected to human misuse of the natural environment, runs through his document.
Francis also refers to an "environmental crisis" and claims "the symptoms of sickness [are] evident in the soil, in the water, in the air, and in all forms of life."
Critics have viewed the encyclical as a political, rather than a spiritual, document and described it as "pessimistic," sounding more like "Environmental Defense Fund propaganda."
According to his critics, Francis provided politically driven "environmentalists a motherlode of propaganda soundbites as well as rhetorical ammunition to make an appeal to papal authority in support of their agenda" in Laudato Sí.
In speaking with Church Militant, George Neumayr, American Spectator reporter, who took the photos of the pagan displays, explained the draping of Rome's churches in pagan paraphernalia in historical terms.
"Francis' Church's wallowing in nature worship is one of the culminating travesties of modernism," he told Church Militant, "the plunge into paganism past popes predicted would happen if clerics rejected Thomism and adopted the subjectivism of the misnamed 'Enlightenment.'"
Neumayr's comment alludes to Pope St. Pius X's warning about the dangers of modernism in the early 20th century.
Pope St. Pius X
The sainted pope warned of the danger of modernism in his encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis in which he explicitly laid out the dangers of modernism that are often buried in "clever artifice":
But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage ... to bring their teachings together here into one group ... .
The anti-modernist pope stated: "I am completely opposed to the error of the modernists who hold that there is nothing divine in sacred tradition."
The covering of traditional symbols of the Catholic Church with pagan symbols of the Amazonian indigenous people and political slogans of liberation theology represent a jolt to tradition-minded Catholics, striking them more as indoctrination rather than elucidation of sacred precepts.
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A PORTENT OF THINGS TO COME
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The Amazon Synod kicked off today with tribal songs echoing through the halls of St. Peter's Basilica, before the pope and synod fathers processed to the synod hall, flanked by indigenous peoples walking barefoot carrying a rainbow-colored fishing net.
The pope took the occasion of his opening address to scold those who commented on tribal headdress, asking, "What is the difference between this headdress, and the biretta used by officials of this dicastery?"
And Cdl. Claudio Hummes, leader of the synod, again stressed the possibility of making exceptions to priestly celibacy in remote regions of the Amazon — also touching on granting women leadership roles in the context of the sacraments: "[F]aced with a great number of women who nowadays lead communities in Amazonia, there is a request that this service be acknowledged and there be an attempt to consolidate it with a suitable ministry for them."
Just the day before, the opening Mass was marked by a first in the history of Christendom: a pagan protest inside the walls of St. Peter's Basilica.
Just steps from the High Altar, demonstrators unfurled a banner urging the world to listen to the cry of Mother Earth, before being escorted away by security.
The significance of the event has not been lost on Catholics.
That the walls of the iconic basilica, the seat of global Catholicism, would have been penetrated by pagan protestors is, for critics, symbolic of what Francis has allowed to happen to the Church under his reign — and is a worrying portent of things to come.
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TRANSCRIPT
The Amazon Synod kicked off today with tribal songs echoing through the halls of St. Peter's Basilica, before the pope and synod fathers processed to the synod hall, flanked by indigenous peoples walking barefoot carrying a rainbow-colored fishing net.
The pope took the occasion of his opening address to scold those who commented on tribal headdress, asking, "What is the difference between this headdress, and the biretta used by officials of this dicastery?"
And Cdl. Claudio Hummes, leader of the synod, again stressed the possibility of making exceptions to priestly celibacy in remote regions of the Amazon — also touching on granting women leadership roles in the context of the sacraments: "[F]aced with a great number of women who nowadays lead communities in Amazonia, there is a request that this service be acknowledged and there be an attempt to consolidate it with a suitable ministry for them."
Just the day before, the opening Mass was marked by a first in the history of Christendom: a pagan protest inside the walls of St. Peter's Basilica.
Just steps from the High Altar, demonstrators unfurled a banner urging the world to listen to the cry of Mother Earth, before being escorted away by security.
The significance of the event has not been lost on Catholics.
That the walls of the iconic basilica, the seat of global Catholicism, would have been penetrated by pagan protestors is, for critics, symbolic of what Francis has allowed to happen to the Church under his reign — and is a worrying portent of things to come.
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AMAZON SYNOD REPORT: LOTS OF APPLAUSE (FOR REVOLUTION)
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Today: the applause. Lots of applause.
Every time something comes up opposed to tradition, the hall of bishops here breaks into applause. For example, Cdl. Lorenzo Baldisseri yesterday announced that the bishops in attendance were being granted permission to not wear their standard bishops' cassocks and instead start wearing their black clerical suits, the ones that make them look like CEOs.
Lots of applause.
Really? Is wearing a cassock such a heavy cross for a bishop to bear? Poor dears.
And then, there was this applause: It came in response to the comments from the pope taking a jab at birettas — the three-cornered hat that more tradition-minded priests often wear. As the Pope tells it, he had overheard someone making fun of the indigenous people of the forest headdress worn by a man bringing up the gifts at the opening Mass. So he had this to say.
Pope Francis: "What is the difference between this headdress, and the biretta used by officials of this dicastery?"
And of course that little stab at those wicked, mean-spirited, small-minded, traditional types brought down the house.
What the pope did not say is that he is the one who actually started this war of words over hats.
Last week he made fun of, and even insulted, priests who wear the saturno, a round hat. He accused clergy who wear them as well as cassocks of having serious problems, moral problems, imbalances.
That's quite a charge. If you wear traditional priest clothing, you are mentally disturbed? Wow!
But apparently, papal insults are not enough to deter actual sales of saturnos here in Rome, where shopkeepers who sell them say they are flying off the shelves since the pope made his comments.
Saturnos are flying off the shelves since the pope made his comments.Tweet
These little outbursts go to show just how intense this revolution has become; and do not kid yourself — it is revolutionary, plain and simple — a paradigm shift.
Cardinal Blase Cupich brought the word up months ago speaking to a gathering of like-minded revolutionaries in Cambrdige, England.
It is an overthrow of all that has gone before — right down to the hats and cassocks.
But many Catholics are trying to understand where all this revolution came from. Why, all of a sudden, seemingly out of thin air, are we talking about a Church with the oft-repeated and quickly growing tired phrase "an Amazonian face"?
What is happening at this synod is the canonization of liberation theology, and its nearly three-decade pushing and funding by the Church in Germany.
In short, the indigenous people — another phrase that has worn out its welcome here in Rome — are being used by leftist European Churchmen, largely from Germany, who have no regard for the souls of these Amazon tribes, but do see the opportunity to exploit them.
Call it "Liberation Theology colonization."
One of the recurring themes here running through the preparatory documents and presentations is: Colonialism is bad.
Taken in context of a religious synod, the clear implication is that converting people to Catholicism — as the Church was commanded to do by the Son of God — is bad.
That's the reason for all the talk about the great spiritual gifts possessed by the indigenous people of the forest, and how we can learn from them, something synod organizers keep calling "ancestral wisdom."
There is zero talk in the run-up to the synod of conversion, repentance or accepting the Gospel.
There is a lot of talk about "listening" and "learning" from the "people of the forest," a lot of talk about converting the Faith into something acceptable to Amazonia.
There is little talk, however, of the fact that approximately 20 of the nearly 400 different tribes of the "people of the forest" still practice infanticide, for example. It's not clear precisely what the Church can "learn" by "listening" to the sounds of babies' throats being slit.
It's not clear precisely what the Church can 'learn' by 'listening' to the sounds of babies' throats being slit.Tweet
But in today's presser, when the topic came up, Jesuit Cdl. Pedro Jimeno, archbishop of Huancayo, Peru, erupted when a reporter asked about it, denying that this happens — or at the very least that he had ever heard about it. He claims there is no evidence of it.
This is the same cardinal who earlier this year said that launching criminal charges for the sex abuse cases in Peru would be very, very negative for the Catholic Church there.
Another topic: the need for formation, but with a qualifier — "inculturated" formation — whatever that means.
Since the culture of the Amazon and Brazil has been so steeped in liberation theology, that ambiguous phrase "inculturated formation" could certainly be construed to mean "formed in the culture of liberation theology."
And at the synod today, the topic came up — again — of colonialism.
This theme of identifying the Church with Western colonialism is a back door way of saying saying colonialism is bad and, therefore, since the Church is made to be synonymous with it, evangelizing with the purpose of having people convert to the Catholic faith is essentially Western colonization.
The entire press conference today, in fact, sounded like a socialist economics class — which is fine, we suppose, but again, what does this have to do with salvation?
This synod is presupposing salvation through better economics for those who are poor. That is the heart of liberation theology — which is getting lots of applause here in Rome.
Just don't show up in a biretta.
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Michael Voris, S.T.B. • ChurchMilitant.com • October 8, 2019 105 Comments
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TRANSCRIPT
Today: the applause. Lots of applause.
Every time something comes up opposed to tradition, the hall of bishops here breaks into applause. For example, Cdl. Lorenzo Baldisseri yesterday announced that the bishops in attendance were being granted permission to not wear their standard bishops' cassocks and instead start wearing their black clerical suits, the ones that make them look like CEOs.
Lots of applause.
Really? Is wearing a cassock such a heavy cross for a bishop to bear? Poor dears.
And then, there was this applause: It came in response to the comments from the pope taking a jab at birettas — the three-cornered hat that more tradition-minded priests often wear. As the Pope tells it, he had overheard someone making fun of the indigenous people of the forest headdress worn by a man bringing up the gifts at the opening Mass. So he had this to say.
Pope Francis: "What is the difference between this headdress, and the biretta used by officials of this dicastery?"
And of course that little stab at those wicked, mean-spirited, small-minded, traditional types brought down the house.
What the pope did not say is that he is the one who actually started this war of words over hats.
Last week he made fun of, and even insulted, priests who wear the saturno, a round hat. He accused clergy who wear them as well as cassocks of having serious problems, moral problems, imbalances.
That's quite a charge. If you wear traditional priest clothing, you are mentally disturbed? Wow!
But apparently, papal insults are not enough to deter actual sales of saturnos here in Rome, where shopkeepers who sell them say they are flying off the shelves since the pope made his comments.
Saturnos are flying off the shelves since the pope made his comments.Tweet
These little outbursts go to show just how intense this revolution has become; and do not kid yourself — it is revolutionary, plain and simple — a paradigm shift.
Cardinal Blase Cupich brought the word up months ago speaking to a gathering of like-minded revolutionaries in Cambrdige, England.
It is an overthrow of all that has gone before — right down to the hats and cassocks.
But many Catholics are trying to understand where all this revolution came from. Why, all of a sudden, seemingly out of thin air, are we talking about a Church with the oft-repeated and quickly growing tired phrase "an Amazonian face"?
What is happening at this synod is the canonization of liberation theology, and its nearly three-decade pushing and funding by the Church in Germany.
In short, the indigenous people — another phrase that has worn out its welcome here in Rome — are being used by leftist European Churchmen, largely from Germany, who have no regard for the souls of these Amazon tribes, but do see the opportunity to exploit them.
Call it "Liberation Theology colonization."
One of the recurring themes here running through the preparatory documents and presentations is: Colonialism is bad.
Taken in context of a religious synod, the clear implication is that converting people to Catholicism — as the Church was commanded to do by the Son of God — is bad.
That's the reason for all the talk about the great spiritual gifts possessed by the indigenous people of the forest, and how we can learn from them, something synod organizers keep calling "ancestral wisdom."
There is zero talk in the run-up to the synod of conversion, repentance or accepting the Gospel.
There is a lot of talk about "listening" and "learning" from the "people of the forest," a lot of talk about converting the Faith into something acceptable to Amazonia.
There is little talk, however, of the fact that approximately 20 of the nearly 400 different tribes of the "people of the forest" still practice infanticide, for example. It's not clear precisely what the Church can "learn" by "listening" to the sounds of babies' throats being slit.
It's not clear precisely what the Church can 'learn' by 'listening' to the sounds of babies' throats being slit.Tweet
But in today's presser, when the topic came up, Jesuit Cdl. Pedro Jimeno, archbishop of Huancayo, Peru, erupted when a reporter asked about it, denying that this happens — or at the very least that he had ever heard about it. He claims there is no evidence of it.
This is the same cardinal who earlier this year said that launching criminal charges for the sex abuse cases in Peru would be very, very negative for the Catholic Church there.
Another topic: the need for formation, but with a qualifier — "inculturated" formation — whatever that means.
Since the culture of the Amazon and Brazil has been so steeped in liberation theology, that ambiguous phrase "inculturated formation" could certainly be construed to mean "formed in the culture of liberation theology."
And at the synod today, the topic came up — again — of colonialism.
This theme of identifying the Church with Western colonialism is a back door way of saying saying colonialism is bad and, therefore, since the Church is made to be synonymous with it, evangelizing with the purpose of having people convert to the Catholic faith is essentially Western colonization.
The entire press conference today, in fact, sounded like a socialist economics class — which is fine, we suppose, but again, what does this have to do with salvation?
This synod is presupposing salvation through better economics for those who are poor. That is the heart of liberation theology — which is getting lots of applause here in Rome.
Just don't show up in a biretta.
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Hay dos religiones dentro de la Iglesia Católica. Una de ellas tiene rostro amazónico
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08/10/2019
Historiador de la Iglesia afirma que ahora hay dos religiones dentro de la Iglesia Católica. Una de ellas tiene rostro amazónico.
El 4 de octubre de este año, Voice of the Family, asociación de organizaciones pro vida y pro familia, celebró una mesa redonda en Roma para abordar cuestiones críticas para la Iglesia y para la familia en vísperas del Sínodo de Obispos para la Amazonía. El informe de LifeSiteNews se puede leer aquí. Seguidamente reproducimos el texto completo de la ponencia que pronunció el profesor Roberto de Mattei.
4 de octubre de 2019 .—LifeSiteNews. En este momento coexisten dos religiones en el seno de la Iglesia Católica. La primera es el catolicismo tradicional, religión de quienes en la actual confusión se mantienen fieles al Magisterio infalible de la Iglesia.
La segunda, que hasta hace unos meses no tenía nombre, ahora lo tiene: es la religión amazónica, porque como ha declarado la persona que actualmente gobierna la Iglesia, existe un plan para dar a la Iglesia un rostro amazónico.
El significado de rostro amazónico está explicado en el Instrumentum laborispara el sínodo de octubre y en las numerosas declaraciones de los teólogos, obispos y cardenales que redactaron dicho documento. Se trata de reinventarla Iglesia, como expresó Leonardo Boff (Eclesiogenesis. Las comunidades de base reinventan la Iglesia, Sal Terrae, Bilbao 1986). La eclesiogénesis de Boff se ha convertido en una cosmogénesis alineada con el ambientalismo posmoderno. Ahora tiene un objetivo más amplio: no sólo reinventar la Iglesia, sino la creación en general a base de un nuevo pacto cósmico (Ecología: grito de la Tierra, grito de los pobres, Trotta, 1995).
Este objetivo se alcanza reinterpretando la verdad de la Iglesia Católica. El modernismo había enseñado que el método más eficaz para negar la verdad es distorsionarla en vez de atacarla de frente.
El Instrumentum laboris propone una «cosmovisión que se recoge en el mantra de Francisco: «Todo está conectado» (párrafo 25). Con todo, en ningún lugar del documento se afirma que todo esté ordenado jerárquicamente a Dios, su Creador, que no es lo mismo que la creación. Se presenta a la Tierra como una biosfera, como un ecosistema en el que Dios está incluido y en el que la ley suprema es la igualdad de todas las cosas. En realidad, la regla primordial de la creación no es la interconexión igualitaria de todo, sino su ordinatio ad unum. Los errores panteístas de ayer y de hoy, que asimilan a Dios al mundo o el mundo a Dios, han sido objeto de repetidas condenas por parte de la Iglesia. Según la fe católica, Dios es «distinto del mundo» (Concilio Vaticano I, constitución dogmática Dei Filius) y, como reiteró el mencionado Concilio Vaticano I, «si alguno dijere que es una sola: y la misma la sustancia o esencia de Dios y la de todas las cosas, sea anatema »(Sesión III, Denzinger 1803).
La nueva religión amazónica reinterpreta y distorsiona el primer artículo del Credo al citar la sabiduría ancestral de los pueblos indígenas que ven a Dios en los elementos físicos de la naturaleza sin entender que Dios trasciende dichos elementos. No tienen noción de la trascendencia, porque no tienen noción de la creación, y confunden a Dios con la naturaleza, que es para ellos un todo que contiene a Dios. La Cristiandad, por el contrario, ha explicado que Dios lo creó todo y está en todo, pero que ningún espacio lo puede contener porque es inmenso; no en un sentido material, sino metafísico y trascendente. Dios llena los cielos y la Tierra, pero los cielos y la Tierra no pueden contenerlo.
La religión amazónica no sólo niega la trascendencia de Dios al incluirlo en la naturaleza, como hacen el panteísmo, el panenteísmo y el monismo; niega también su unicidad, como el politeísmo pagano.
Por politeísmo entendemos la creencia en una pluralidad de dioses, al contrario del monoteísmo, que cree en un solo Dios. La religión amazónica es politeísta, porque aplica la noción de Dios a elementos individuales de la naturaleza y reduce por tanto al Absoluto al nivel de lo finito, abaja lo espiritual poniéndolo al nivel de lo material.
Leonardo Boff, el ecoteólogo que colaboró en la redacción de Laudato sii,afirma: «Como quiera que lo interpretemos, debemos reconocer que los paganos tenían ese aspecto extraordinario: veían la presencia de dioses y diosas en todo. En los bosques, Pan y Silvano, en la Tierra-Gaia, Démeter [= Madre Tierra] y Hestia, en el sol Apolo y Febo, y así en adelante» (Ecologóia: grito de la Tierra, grito de los pobres, pág. 245).
El Instrumentum laboris sintetiza el mismo panteísmo y politeísmo en estas líneas, que aluden a Laudato sii: «La vida de las comunidades amazónicas aún no afectadas por el influjo de la civilización occidental, se refleja en la creencia y en los ritos sobre el actuar de los espíritus, de la divinidad – llamada de múltiples maneras – con y en el territorio, con y en relación a la naturaleza. Esta cosmovisión se recoge en el ‘mantra’ de Francisco: “todo está conectado”» (LS 16, 91, 117, 138, 240). Esta misma cosmovisión se expresa en muchos otros puntos del documento.
Con el debido respeto a las autoridades eclesiásticas, acuso a todo los que han aprobado o aprobarán el Instrumentum laboris de la Amazonía, de politeísmo, y más precisamente de polidemonismo, porque «omnes dii Gentium daemonia; Dominus autem caelos fecit» (Salmos 95,5, Vulgata). Todos los dioses de los gentiles son demonios, pero el Señor ha hecho los cielos.
No pueden coexistir dos religiones en una misma Iglesia.
Exhorto a los cardenales y obispos que sigan siendo católicos a alzar la voz contra este escándalo. Si persisten en su silencio, continuaremos implorando la intervención de los ángeles y de María, Reina de los Ángeles, para que salven a la Santa Iglesia de toda forma de reinvención, distorsión e interpretación.
(Traducido por Bruno de la Inmaculada. Fuente)
Roberto de Mattei
http://www.robertodemattei.it/
Roberto de Mattei enseña Historia Moderna e Historia del Cristianismo en la Universidad Europea de Roma, en la que dirige el área de Ciencias Históricas. Es Presidente de la “Fondazione Lepanto” (http://www.fondazionelepanto.org/); miembro de los Consejos Directivos del “Instituto Histórico Italiano para la Edad Moderna y Contemporánea” y de la “Sociedad Geográfica Italiana”. De 2003 a 2011 ha ocupado el cargo de vice-Presidente del “Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones” italiano, con delega para las áreas de Ciencias Humanas. Entre 2002 y 2006 fue Consejero para los asuntos internacionales del Gobierno de Italia. Y, entre 2005 y 2011, fue también miembro del “Board of Guarantees della Italian Academy” de la Columbia University de Nueva York. Dirige las revistas “Radici Cristiane” (http://www.radicicristiane.it/) y “Nova Historia”, y la Agencia de Información “Corrispondenza Romana” (http://www.corrispondenzaromana.it/). Es autor de muchas obras traducidas a varios idiomas, entre las que recordamos las últimas:La dittatura del relativismo traducido al portugués, polaco y francés), La Turchia in Europa. Beneficio o catastrofe? (traducido al inglés, alemán y polaco), Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta (traducido al alemán, portugués y próximamente también al español) y Apologia della tradizione.
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Historiador de la Iglesia afirma que ahora hay dos religiones dentro de la Iglesia Católica. Una de ellas tiene rostro amazónico.
El 4 de octubre de este año, Voice of the Family, asociación de organizaciones pro vida y pro familia, celebró una mesa redonda en Roma para abordar cuestiones críticas para la Iglesia y para la familia en vísperas del Sínodo de Obispos para la Amazonía. El informe de LifeSiteNews se puede leer aquí. Seguidamente reproducimos el texto completo de la ponencia que pronunció el profesor Roberto de Mattei.
4 de octubre de 2019 .—LifeSiteNews. En este momento coexisten dos religiones en el seno de la Iglesia Católica. La primera es el catolicismo tradicional, religión de quienes en la actual confusión se mantienen fieles al Magisterio infalible de la Iglesia.
La segunda, que hasta hace unos meses no tenía nombre, ahora lo tiene: es la religión amazónica, porque como ha declarado la persona que actualmente gobierna la Iglesia, existe un plan para dar a la Iglesia un rostro amazónico.
El significado de rostro amazónico está explicado en el Instrumentum laborispara el sínodo de octubre y en las numerosas declaraciones de los teólogos, obispos y cardenales que redactaron dicho documento. Se trata de reinventarla Iglesia, como expresó Leonardo Boff (Eclesiogenesis. Las comunidades de base reinventan la Iglesia, Sal Terrae, Bilbao 1986). La eclesiogénesis de Boff se ha convertido en una cosmogénesis alineada con el ambientalismo posmoderno. Ahora tiene un objetivo más amplio: no sólo reinventar la Iglesia, sino la creación en general a base de un nuevo pacto cósmico (Ecología: grito de la Tierra, grito de los pobres, Trotta, 1995).
Este objetivo se alcanza reinterpretando la verdad de la Iglesia Católica. El modernismo había enseñado que el método más eficaz para negar la verdad es distorsionarla en vez de atacarla de frente.
El Instrumentum laboris propone una «cosmovisión que se recoge en el mantra de Francisco: «Todo está conectado» (párrafo 25). Con todo, en ningún lugar del documento se afirma que todo esté ordenado jerárquicamente a Dios, su Creador, que no es lo mismo que la creación. Se presenta a la Tierra como una biosfera, como un ecosistema en el que Dios está incluido y en el que la ley suprema es la igualdad de todas las cosas. En realidad, la regla primordial de la creación no es la interconexión igualitaria de todo, sino su ordinatio ad unum. Los errores panteístas de ayer y de hoy, que asimilan a Dios al mundo o el mundo a Dios, han sido objeto de repetidas condenas por parte de la Iglesia. Según la fe católica, Dios es «distinto del mundo» (Concilio Vaticano I, constitución dogmática Dei Filius) y, como reiteró el mencionado Concilio Vaticano I, «si alguno dijere que es una sola: y la misma la sustancia o esencia de Dios y la de todas las cosas, sea anatema »(Sesión III, Denzinger 1803).
La nueva religión amazónica reinterpreta y distorsiona el primer artículo del Credo al citar la sabiduría ancestral de los pueblos indígenas que ven a Dios en los elementos físicos de la naturaleza sin entender que Dios trasciende dichos elementos. No tienen noción de la trascendencia, porque no tienen noción de la creación, y confunden a Dios con la naturaleza, que es para ellos un todo que contiene a Dios. La Cristiandad, por el contrario, ha explicado que Dios lo creó todo y está en todo, pero que ningún espacio lo puede contener porque es inmenso; no en un sentido material, sino metafísico y trascendente. Dios llena los cielos y la Tierra, pero los cielos y la Tierra no pueden contenerlo.
La religión amazónica no sólo niega la trascendencia de Dios al incluirlo en la naturaleza, como hacen el panteísmo, el panenteísmo y el monismo; niega también su unicidad, como el politeísmo pagano.
Por politeísmo entendemos la creencia en una pluralidad de dioses, al contrario del monoteísmo, que cree en un solo Dios. La religión amazónica es politeísta, porque aplica la noción de Dios a elementos individuales de la naturaleza y reduce por tanto al Absoluto al nivel de lo finito, abaja lo espiritual poniéndolo al nivel de lo material.
Leonardo Boff, el ecoteólogo que colaboró en la redacción de Laudato sii,afirma: «Como quiera que lo interpretemos, debemos reconocer que los paganos tenían ese aspecto extraordinario: veían la presencia de dioses y diosas en todo. En los bosques, Pan y Silvano, en la Tierra-Gaia, Démeter [= Madre Tierra] y Hestia, en el sol Apolo y Febo, y así en adelante» (Ecologóia: grito de la Tierra, grito de los pobres, pág. 245).
El Instrumentum laboris sintetiza el mismo panteísmo y politeísmo en estas líneas, que aluden a Laudato sii: «La vida de las comunidades amazónicas aún no afectadas por el influjo de la civilización occidental, se refleja en la creencia y en los ritos sobre el actuar de los espíritus, de la divinidad – llamada de múltiples maneras – con y en el territorio, con y en relación a la naturaleza. Esta cosmovisión se recoge en el ‘mantra’ de Francisco: “todo está conectado”» (LS 16, 91, 117, 138, 240). Esta misma cosmovisión se expresa en muchos otros puntos del documento.
Con el debido respeto a las autoridades eclesiásticas, acuso a todo los que han aprobado o aprobarán el Instrumentum laboris de la Amazonía, de politeísmo, y más precisamente de polidemonismo, porque «omnes dii Gentium daemonia; Dominus autem caelos fecit» (Salmos 95,5, Vulgata). Todos los dioses de los gentiles son demonios, pero el Señor ha hecho los cielos.
No pueden coexistir dos religiones en una misma Iglesia.
Exhorto a los cardenales y obispos que sigan siendo católicos a alzar la voz contra este escándalo. Si persisten en su silencio, continuaremos implorando la intervención de los ángeles y de María, Reina de los Ángeles, para que salven a la Santa Iglesia de toda forma de reinvención, distorsión e interpretación.
(Traducido por Bruno de la Inmaculada. Fuente)
Roberto de Mattei
http://www.robertodemattei.it/
Roberto de Mattei enseña Historia Moderna e Historia del Cristianismo en la Universidad Europea de Roma, en la que dirige el área de Ciencias Históricas. Es Presidente de la “Fondazione Lepanto” (http://www.fondazionelepanto.org/); miembro de los Consejos Directivos del “Instituto Histórico Italiano para la Edad Moderna y Contemporánea” y de la “Sociedad Geográfica Italiana”. De 2003 a 2011 ha ocupado el cargo de vice-Presidente del “Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones” italiano, con delega para las áreas de Ciencias Humanas. Entre 2002 y 2006 fue Consejero para los asuntos internacionales del Gobierno de Italia. Y, entre 2005 y 2011, fue también miembro del “Board of Guarantees della Italian Academy” de la Columbia University de Nueva York. Dirige las revistas “Radici Cristiane” (http://www.radicicristiane.it/) y “Nova Historia”, y la Agencia de Información “Corrispondenza Romana” (http://www.corrispondenzaromana.it/). Es autor de muchas obras traducidas a varios idiomas, entre las que recordamos las últimas:La dittatura del relativismo traducido al portugués, polaco y francés), La Turchia in Europa. Beneficio o catastrofe? (traducido al inglés, alemán y polaco), Il Concilio Vaticano II. Una storia mai scritta (traducido al alemán, portugués y próximamente también al español) y Apologia della tradizione.
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Cardenal Müller: Han expulsado a Jesús del Sínodo para la Amazonia
En una entrevista llevada a cabo por Matteo Matzuzzi para el diario «Il Foglio», el cardenal Müller acusa al Sínodo para la Amazonia de expulsar a Jesús y advierte que el Señor «dio su vida para la salvación de los hombres, no del planeta»
8/10/19 1:49 PM
(Settimo Cielo/InfoCatólica) Según recoge Sandro Magister en su blog Settimo cielo, el Prefecto emérito de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe, advierte que el Sínodo amazónico puede tener «consecuencias sobre la Iglesia universal». Y señala que, a pesar de tratar sobre la región amazónica, «si se escuchan las voces de algunos de los protagonistas de esta asamblea se comprende fácilmente que la agenda es totalmente europea».
El purpurado alemán relaciona el Sínodo para la Amazonia con el que va a tener lugar en su tierra natal:
«En Alemania quieren casi refundar la Iglesia Católica. Piensan que Cristo es sólo un hombre que vivió hace dos mil años, consideran que no fue un hombre moderno, están convencidos que no tenía nada de su docta formación. Por eso piensan que es necesario llenar estas lagunas y que les espera actuar a ellos. En una homilía, el cardenal Marx ha preguntado retóricamente: ‘Si Cristo estuviese aquí hoy, ¿diría lo que dijo hace dos mil años?’ Pero Cristo no es una figura histórica como el César. Jesucristo es el resucitado que está presente, que celebra la Misa a través de su representante ordenado sacerdote. Es el sujeto de la Iglesia y su Palabra permanece y vale eternamente. Cristo es la plenitud de la Revelación, por eso no habrá otra Revelación. Somos nosotros los que debemos buscar conocerla más y mejor, ciertamente no podemos cambiarla. Cristo es insuperable e irreversible, pero esto hoy no parece ser muy claro en ciertas latitudes».
Para Müller este error está presente también en el Instrumentum laboris, el documento base del Sínodo sobre la Amazonia: «un documento que no habla de la Revelación, del Verbo encarnado, de la Redención, de la Cruz, de la Vida eterna», sino que más bien ensalza en lugar de la Revelación divina, para asumir como tales, a las tradiciones religiosas de los pueblos indígenas y sus cosmovisiones.
Ante la idea de la ordenación de sacerdotes casados como manera de satisfacer el supuesto derecho a recibir sacarmentos, el cardenal asegura que «no existe ni puede existir un derecho al sacramento. Nosotros somos creaturas de Dios y una creatura no puede reclamar un derecho a su creador. La vida y la gracia son un don. El hombre tiene el derecho de casarse, pero no puede pretender que una determinada mujer lo despose reivindicando un derecho específico. Jesús eligió libremente entre todos sus discípulos a doce de ellos, presentando así su autoridad divina. Eligió a los que él quiso, es Dios quien elige. Nadie puede entrar en el santuario sin ser llamado. Una vez más prevalece la mentalidad secularizada: se piensa como los hombres, no como Dios».
Y añade:
«El celibato sacerdotal se puede comprender sólo en el contexto de la misión escatológica de Jesús, quien ha creado un mundo nuevo. Ha habido una nueva creación. Con las categorías del secularismo no se pueden comprender la indisolubilidad del matrimonio, así como el celibato o la virginidad de las órdenes religiosas. Con tales categorías tampoco se pueden resolver problemas que tienen su origen exclusivamente en la crisis de la fe. No se trata de reclutar más gente para administrar los sacramentos, sino que es necesaria una preparación espiritual, es necesario entrar en la espiritualidad de los apóstoles. Es necesaria una preparación espiritual y teológica, se necesita entrar en la espiritualidad de los apóstoles, no prestando atención a las agencias laicas que aconsejan mucho y sobre muchas cosas por razones totalmente contrastantes con la misión de la Iglesia. Sirve la espiritualidad, no la mundanización».
En cuanto al auge del activismo ecológico, Müller dice:
«La Iglesia es de Jesucristo y debe predicar el Evangelio y dar esperanza para la vida eterna. No puede hacerse protagonista de alguna ideología, ya sea la del ‘gender’ o la del neopaganismo ambientalista. Es peligroso si sucede esto. Vuelvo al ’Instrumentum laboris’ preparado para el Sínodo sobre la Amazonia. En uno de sus párrafos se habla de la ‘Madre Tierra’: pero ésta es una expresión pagana. La tierra viene de Dios y nuestra madre en la fe es la Iglesia. Nosotros somos justificados por la fe, la esperanza y el amor, no por el activismo ambiental. Es cierto que el cuidado de lo creado es importante, después de todo vivimos en un jardín querido por Dios. Pero no es éste el punto decisivo. Lo es el hecho que para nosotros Dios es lo más importante. Jesús dio su vida para la salvación de los hombres, no del planeta».
Y concluye:
«Ciertamente la Iglesia puede dar su propia contribución con una buena ética, con la doctrina social, con el magisterio, recordando los principios antropológicos. Pero la primera misión de la Iglesia es predicar a Cristo, el Hijo de Dios. Jesús no le dijo a Pedro que se ocupara del gobierno del imperio romano, no entra en diálogo con el César. Se mantuvo a una buena distancia. Pedro no era amigo de Herodes o de Pilato, sino que sufrió el martirio. Es justa la cooperación con un gobierno legítimo, pero sin olvidar jamás que la misión de Pedro y de sus sucesores consiste en unir a todos los creyentes en la fe en Cristo, que no ha encomendado que se ocuparan de las aguas del Jordán o de la vegetación de Galilea».
Archivado en: Cardenal Müller; Sínodo para la Amazonia
Actualizado el miércoles, 9 de octubre de 2019, a las 19:48 GTM+2
