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[Catholic Caucus] Mel Gibson criticises Pope Francis over slide toward religious pluralism
Catholic Herald ^ | 1/10/2025 | Simon Caldwell
Posted on 01/10/2025 7:16:57 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
... In a podcast interview with US chat show host Joe Rogan, Mr Gibson explained his scepticism about reforms of the Second Vatican Council of the 1960s by saying: “We’ve got a pope that brought a South American idol into the church to worship.”
He said a religious ceremony was performed in the presence of the idol which, he said, “constitutes an apostasy”.
“It’s a falling away,” he explained at about half an hour into the two-hour interview. “The very nature of apostasy is that you have to be part of it to fall away from it. It’s an inside job. ...
The Pachamama, a pagan fertility god in the form of a naked and pregnant woman, was brought into the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina during the Amazonian synod of October 2019 for use in events, rituals and to honour expressions of native American spirituality.
The statue was thrown in the River Tiber, however, by Alexander Tschugguel, an Austrian...
Pope Francis issued an apology asking forgiveness from those who were offended by the statues being thrown into the Tiber, and said that they had been displayed in the church “without idolatrous intentions”.
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Most recently, in a message to an interreligious gathering in Paris for peace, Pope Francis wrote last September that the divine inspiration is present in every faith.
He told the Sant’Egidio Community that people must “be guided by the divine inspiration present in every faith, in order to join in ‘imagining peace’ among all peoples”.
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He said: “They are like different languages in order to arrive at God, but God is God for all … Since God is God for all, then we are all children of God.”
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(Excerpt) Read more at catholicherald.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Apologetics; Catholic; Current Events; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: bergoglio; melgibson; pachamama
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This idol of Pachamama has ancient origins and missionaries and cultural anthropologists in certain regions of South America have said Pachamama has been worshipped as a diety for a long period of time.
Mother Mary though, whom we all know is NOT worshipped by Catholics (though it must be said she is not worshipped as others may be propagandized she is worshipped when she is not worshipped by Catholics) does not go unclothed and does not appear so in apparitions. And yet some in the past tried to link Mother Mary to Pachamama when there is no linking them together.
But this image of Pachamama has routinely been seen as unclothed, so for it to be said there were no "idolatrous intentions" concerning the Pachamama (as stated in the article) is hardly to be taken seriously given she is clearly not Mother Mary, and because that selfsame image of Pachamama that Mel referenced, as shown already, is an idol, long worshipped as such, and long considered to be a deity.
To: Its All Over Except ...; Al Hitan; Fedora; irishjuggler; Jaded; kalee; markomalley; miele man; ...
2 posted on 01/10/2025 7:19:07 PM PST by ebb tide ("The Spirit of Vatican II" is nothing more than a wicked "ideology" of the modernists.)
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