Amazon Archives

Indigenous vow to stand with Pope Francis, with each other

Amazon synod, Catholic News Service, Vatican
Oct 18, 2019

Pope Francis and members of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon repeatedly vowed to support, defend and accompany the region’s indigenous people.

Amazon synod reports support, dissent on married priests and women deacons

Amazon synod
Oct 18, 2019

Judging from Friday’s reports, the Oct. 6-27 Synod on the Amazon, there’s overwhelming consensus on most points, such as Pope Francis’s call for an “integral ecology.” Yet even within that climate of basic harmony, there were also scattered notes of dissent on two hot-button questions: Married priests and women deacons.

Indigenous priest says celibacy doesn’t cause shortages in Amazon

Amazon synod
Oct 17, 2019

One of the few indigenous priests participating in this month’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon has weighed in on the issue of celibacy, saying it is a virtue everyone can live, but refrained from offering an opinion on the debate surrounding married priests in the Amazon.

Indigenous woman brings message from her elders to pope as church elder

Amazon synod, Catholic News Service
Oct 15, 2019

Anitalia Pijachi, an indigenous woman from the Amazonian town of Leticia, Colombia, came to the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon bringing a message from the elders of her people to Pope Francis, an elder of the Catholic Church.

Church ‘can’t sacralize, nor Satanize’ every indigenous practice, bishop says

Amazon synod
Oct 10, 2019

A bishop has warned that the Church “cannot sacralize every indigenous thing, nor can we Satanize it.”

Synod drama features married priests, women deacons and ‘ecological sins’

Amazon synod
Oct 9, 2019

“There is no other option [to more married priests]. The indigenous people don’t understand celibacy, they say that very openly and I see it,” said Retired Bishop Erwin Kräutler of Xingu, Brazil.