Modernist, synodalist apologia for Pachamama veneration
Defending Pope Leo: He is not an idolater nor did he worship Pachamama. The author was a Bishop until he resigned to get married. He also wrote a fake, malicious obituary for Archbishop Gänswein His horrible history The young missionary Robert Prevost did indeed participate in this congress on ecology and theology in 1995, and during a ceremony honoring Mother Earth, he knelt before her. I cannot see any worship of Pachamama as a goddess, neither on the part of Prevost nor on the part of any of the attendees. We see an interreligious act, where a representative of Andean culture makes a payment to the earth, an offering, and engages in dialogue with the earth. Other people, including Augustinian priests, attend this ceremony, which is part of Andean culture. Respecting the earth as a "being with a soul" still recognizes it as a creature of God. Pachamama is the earth, or rather, this soul of the earth. Therefore, we can speak to her, as we speak to the Saints. We can kneel be...
