Cardinal Cláudio Hummes

Peru’s rising star tapped to lead Pan-Amazon ecclesial network
- Oct 16, 2020
Earlier this week it was announced that Cardinal Pedro Barreto, who was among the chief architects of last year’s Synod of Bishops on the Amazon, would be taking charge of the Catholic Church’s leading entity dedicated to protecting the Pan-Amazonian region.

By Elise Ann Allen
‘We will live and die with you,’ cardinal tells virtual Amazon assembly
- Jul 26, 2020
Church leaders sent a strong message of support to an unprecedented virtual assembly of more than 3,000 indigenous leaders, small farmers, environmental campaigners and women from the nine countries of the Amazon region seriously affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

By Mary Durran
Catholic leaders warn of humanitarian, environmental tragedy in Amazon
- May 19, 2020
Catholic leaders warn that as the coronavirus pandemic spreads into the Amazon basin, the region may face a “humanitarian and environmental tragedy.”

By Barbara Fraser

Amazon governors, meeting after synod, support ‘green economy’
- Oct 29, 2019
Governors from eight Amazonian states in Brazil and Peru meeting at the Vatican agreed that the Amazon is threatened and called for a “green economy” that would allow people to generate income without destroying the forest.

By Barbara Fraser
Amazon bishops pledge poverty, spurning plastics and taking the bus
- Oct 20, 2019
Facing what signatories call an “avalanche of consumerism,” 40 bishops pledged Sunday to assume a “happily sober lifestyle, simple and in solidarity with those who have little or nothing; to reduce the production of garbage and the use of plastics, favoring the production and commercialization of agro-ecological products; and using public transport whenever possible.”

By Inés San Martín
In synod debate over married priests, is the Rhine flowing into the Amazon?
- Oct 18, 2019
One might say that just as the Rhine flowed into the Tiber at Vatican II, in the words of the title to Ralph Wiltgen’s controversial history, so today the Rhine is also flowing into the Amazon.

By John L. Allen Jr.