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By Maureen Mullarkey, The Federalist - Bureaucrats need shoes. The modern Vatican needs The Poor in much the same way that today’s Democrat Party needs a permanent underclass. This year’s designated Poor are in the Amazon. The Instrumentum promises to extend its sympathies to “the other important biomes of our world: the Congo basin, the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, the tropical forests of the Asia Pacific region ad Guarani Aquifer, among others.”… Between the lines of that promise is admission that the Amazon is simply the first stop on a longer tour.

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Did Pope Francis really really say that Jesus is not God?.. Eugenio Scalfari, who made this sensational claim, cannot be treated as a reliable witness. He is an atheist, a Marxist, not a Christian. Although he has interviewed Pope Francis several times, he has not recorded the sessions or taken notes. He boasts of the ability to reconstruct conversations from memory: a technique that would be inappropriate for any responsible journalist, let alone one of Scalfari’s advanced age (95).

By Martina Moyski, Church Militant - 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 Traspontina in 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.