Catholic Church

By Julia Meloni, Crisis Magazine - We now have “two religions within the Catholic Church,” according to historian Roberto de Mattei. The first is “traditional Catholicism”; the second is “the Amazonian religion,” he argues, charging that the synod’s working document endorses “pantheism and polytheism.”… At a hard-hitting roundtable of Catholic leaders, de Mattei pointed out that revolutions historically have long incubation periods but move dizzyingly fast once they explode. He believes that the current Church revolution has been simmering for 50 to 60 years and that now “it is possible that all will explode very, very rapidly.” The passage from a material schism to a formal schism “could be dramatic and happen very, very, very rapidly.”

By Patty Knap, EWTN News - Captivating scenes include Faustina’s call from Jesus to enter the convent; her relationship with Fr. Michael Sopocko, the priest sent by Christ to help her carry out her mission; the often-frustrating process of creating the Divine Mercy image, as Jesus had requested; her and Fr. Sopocko’s trust in Christ amid the many spiritual trials; and the handing off of key Divine Mercy documents to a Marian priest, Fr. Joseph Jarzebowski, who escaped to America to fulfill his promise to promote Divine Mercy.

By Diane Montagna, LifeSiteNews - A key organizer of the Amazonian Synod who favors a female diaconate for the region has said it may be the “first step” to ordaining women priests… “Many of the bishops [at the synod] are in favor of women deacons,” Kräutler asserted… As a missionary, Bishop Kräutler spent years in the Amazonian region defending the rights of indigenous people and was the principal author of the synod’s controversial working document [Instrumentum laboris].

By di Sandro Magister, L'Espresso - The previous post from Settimo Cielo on infanticide in the Amazon and on those who defend it in the Church struck a tremendous chord… But there’s something else. It is not true that prominent figures of the synod in progress are unaware of the existence of this practice among some tribes… Such sensational ignorance could in fact attach to Peruvian cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimenez, archbishop of Huancayo, Jesuit, vice-president of the pan-Amazonian ecclesial network and co-president of the synod….