We confirm the news that the ever well-informed Marco Tosatti has just released. A secret meeting has brought together a group of bishops and theologians, mostly German speakers, in a religious house near Rome to establish a common strategy at the coming synod on the Amazon, which will open in the Vatican October 6. As
The Instrumentum Laboris for the next Synod on the Amazon, to be held in Rome from October 6 to 27, is drawing serious criticism. Lately, Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, a prominent Church historian, issued an authoritative critique of it. In order to delve deeper into this matter, I interviewed Msgr. Nicola Bux, an expert on Synods.
For Catholics, the panorama in the Holy Roman Catholic and Apostolic Church is becoming increasingly dark. The leftist offensive being prepared through the Synod of Bishops on the Amazon foreshadows a true revolution, not only in the way we understand the Church but one with apocalyptic repercussions for the entire world order. The recently published
We are publishing this interview with Cardinal Brandmüller courtesy of Sabino Paciolla’s Blog. Italian translation of the original German, which appeared in Die Tagestpost, by Alessandra Carboni Riehn; English translation by the staff of Pan-Amazon Synod Watch. The fact that the Church in Germany is going through a crisis has been demonstrated by the figures
By deliberation of its Board of Directors, the Associação PanAmazônia (PanAmazonian Association) has addressed an open letter to Pope Francis expressing concern about the orientation of the Synod of bishops on the Amazon. It invites the Supreme Pontiff to take advantage of this coming meeting to reassess the Church’s vision of the real problems of
In early February, the Brazilian media reported extensively about the concern of the Brazilian Army and government were having with some guidelines of the Synod on the Amazon that could affect national sovereignty.[1] In his inaugural lecture at the School of Theology of the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo on February 19, to which
By Edmund Contoski Sunspots are dwindling to lows not seen in 200 years. In 2008, during the solar minimum of cycle 23, there were 266 days with no sunspots. This is considered a very deep solar minimum. The chart above clearly shows a weakening trend of sunspots in solar cycles 22, 23 and 24. These
Interview with Mr. José Antonio Ureta by Almudena Martínez-Bordiú InfoVaticana speaks with José Antonio Ureta, researcher of the Pro Europa Christiana Federation and author of the book, Pope Francis’ Paradigm Shift: Continuity or Rupture in the Mission of the Church?, about the coming Synod on the Amazon. There is a general silence in the
Antony Burckhardt There were Indians in Hollywood Westerns. With feathers in their hair and a bow in their hands, they would seize the stagecoach before having to cross the Rio Grande fleeing John Wayne. There were also Hergé’s Indians [from The Adventures of Tintin]… With their blowguns, they guided Tintin and his dog Snowy to
In his July 14 interview with ORF [an Austrian national public service broadcaster], Bishop Kräutler said that it is “nearly a scandal” that, in many parishes in the Amazon, the Holy Eucharist is barely being celebrated. This way of speaking in itself is already unclear and definitely tendentious. No one has a right to the