Brazil’s Prince: Amazon Synod Final Doc a ‘Pantheist’ Conspiracy, by Jules Gomes

By Jules Gomes, Church Militant, December 9, 2019

Dom Bertrand of Orleans and Braganza offers blistering critique

Brazil’s Catholic royalty is condemning the Amazon Synod’s final document as an “enormous conspiracy” of emergent pantheism against Catholic tradition, Western civilization and the conservative government of President Jair Bolsonaro.   

Cardinals gathered in synod hall during Amazon Synod

In a scathing attack, His Imperial Highness Prince Dom Bertrand said that the end product of the synod was not Catholicism, but pantheism seeking “a complete change of the Roman Catholic apostolic Church and the Christian civilization that had existed through the Church’s history.”

“They want to extinguish all the progress that happened in the last 2,000 years thanks to Christian civilization,” Dom Bertrand of Orleans and Braganza asserted in a video statement released Friday.

The traditionalist Catholic royal singled out paragraph 10 for a blistering critique, arguing that it would threaten Brazil’s borders and the “soul of the Brazilian people,” since the document was calling for “the complete transformation of Brazil and everything related to the Brazilian population and the indigenous population.”

Paragraph 10 claims that “the Amazon today is a wounded and deformed beauty, a place of pain and violence.”

Prince Bertrand hits back in the video: “The Amazon is a forest. The forest doesn’t suffer. But this is part of a pantheistic vision that claims the forest can suffer because nature is Mother Nature or Pachamama or whatever.”  ….

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