An outrage either way： Pagan idol worship in the Vatican or a nude statue of Our Lady
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An event last week with indigenous people from the Amazon, along with Pope Francis, caused social media to explode. And rightfully so. We were either witnessing a pagan idol worship ceremony in the Vatican with the seeming approval of the Pope, or else it was a scandalous portrayal of the Mother of God with a crude nude statue. Frankly, I don t know which is worse.
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An event last week with indigenous people from the Amazon, along with Pope Francis in the Vatican Gardens, caused social media to explode.
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And rightfully so. We were either witnessing a pagan idol worship ceremony in the Vatican with the seeming approval of the Pope,
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or else it was a scandalous portrayal of the Mother of God with a crude nude statue.
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Frankly, I don't know which is worse, but either way, it's totally outrageous, and that's what we're discussing in this episode of the John Henry Weston Show.
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Let's begin as we always do with the sign of the cross.
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In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.
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The eve of the Amazon Synod was marked by the round table which I joined several popular, outspoken defenders of the Catholic faith
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in calling out Pope Francis for the confusion he's let loose in the Church.
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While that was happening, inside the Vatican Gardens was this strange and alarming scene
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with what seemed like a pagan fertility ritual complete with idol worship, all in the presence of Pope Francis.
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A priestess of some sort was leading the ritual with a dance and participants, including a Franciscan friar,
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knelt in a circle around the blanket and sort of prostrated themselves,
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bowing to the ground with their foreheads before two statues of pregnant naked women.
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The priestess then shook a maraca in apparent blessing over the whole group,
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including going up to the Pope, and he was there looking on with a bunch of cardinals
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as this prostration before the nude women's statues took place.
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As an aside, here are these left-wing Catholics not only kneeling but prostrating themselves
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I find it so weird that the left-leaning prelates in the Church are the very ones
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who disdain kneeling for Holy Communion, sometimes even refusing to administer Holy Communion
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But remember, too, that the account from the Bible in the book of Daniel about King Nebuchadnezzar,
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who set up a golden idol and commanded all the people to bow down before it
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The Jewish young people, Shadrach, Meshach, and Adonago,
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refused, even under the pain of such a horrible death.
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And the outraged king, if you recall, heated the furnace to seven times the normal heat
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and had them bound and thrown into the furnace.
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If you recall the story, they were, of course, miraculously rescued.
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That was thanks, of course, their fidelity to God.
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He had actually seen an angel in there with them.
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And so, to see this idol worship happening in the presence of the Pope,
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in the hallowed ground of the Vatican where St. Peter himself died and was buried,
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LifeSite's Rome correspondent Diane Montagna spoke with an indigenous leader from the Amazon on Saturday,
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who, after viewing this ceremony on video, called it 100% pagan.
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However, some suggested that perhaps these wooden statues of naked, seemingly pregnant women
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were not pagan idols, but rather depictions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Elizabeth.
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Well, the official story, at least coming from the bishop the Vatican had,
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speaking on the Synod at the first press conference on the Synod,
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It's an image that was shown also on other occasions, and I wouldn't know how to interpret it.
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Well, we all have our own interpretation, the Virgin Mary, the Mother Earth.
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Probably those who used this symbol demonstrated,
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wishes to refer to fertility, to women, to life,
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That was the sentiment of Bishop David Martinez de Guerre Guinea, a Dominican.
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you should know that that's what he was referring to is exactly a pagan goddess.
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Mother Earth is a translation of the Inca Pacamama,
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a goddess revered by the indigenous people of the Andes.
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and in Inca mythology, Pacamama is a fertility goddess
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embodies the mountains, and causes earthquakes.
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She's also an ever-present and independent deity
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who has her own self-sufficient and creative power to sustain life on Earth.
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But let me say, even if you don't know exactly,
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like the bishop said, if you don't know exactly what it is,
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if it's either supposed to be Mother Earth or the Virgin Mary,
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and Mother Earth being some kind of pagan idol, a false god,
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well, maybe you should consider not prostrating yourselves
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Remember, too, that it was one of the temptations
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presented to Christ by the devil after his 40-day fast.
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If this was supposed to be a depiction of the Virgin Mary,
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did someone not think twice about enraging our Lord
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by allowing such an unworthy depiction of his Holy Mother in the Vatican?
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The standards of modesty in the Catholic Church are universal
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it leaves people vulnerable and prone to sickness as well.
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or some kind of politically correct sickness that allows this.
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It's time to evangelize with the truth of Christ boldly,
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or any likeness of anything that's in heaven above