No, this isn't a Vatican marketing ploy to get Jeff Bezos to sell holy water and wafers on Amazon - it's time for another installment of pope watch.
There was a time in the 19th Century when the idea of the "noble savage" was promoted - it was better to not bathe and wear loin cloths that was preferable to civilization. The pope continues to prowl the depths of the third world for the latest religious fads - as if pandering to mooselimbs and handing over portions of the cathylick church to the chink commies were not enough.
Coming to a "multicultural" cathylick church near you - Tarzan and Jane (instead of Adam and Eve), bare chested nuns with grass skirts, priestly jungle attire, piranha wafers, and fat buddhas nailed to crosses.
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Pope Francis promotes ‘native spirituality’, meets with Amazonian indigenous chief
Mon May 27, 2019 - 8:54 am EST
Diane Montagna
ROME, May 27, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – In his latest effort to “shape a Church with an Amazonian face,” Pope Francis on Monday met with internationally renowned defender of the Amazon’s delicate ecosystem, indigenous chief Raoni Metukire.
Raoni, the leader of the Kayapò people, has become the “living symbol” of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest and indigenous culture, winning the international acclaim of prominent figures and celebrities such as Sting, Arnold Schwarzenegger and former French president Jacque Chirac.
His visit to the Vatican is seen as part of Pope Francis’s push to promote indigenous spirituality and “integral ecology” in preparation for the Pan-Amazonian Synod next October.
Promoting ‘indigenous spirituality’?
The Vatican has published several photos of the Pope’s audience with Raoni but has not disclosed further details about the meeting.
In a statement on Saturday announcing the private audience, Vatican spokesman Alessandro Gisotti said it attests to Pope Francis’s “care for the Amazonian people and environment, as well as to his commitment to safeguard our Common Home.”
“This audience with Raoni,” Gisotti added, “is also included as part of the preparation for the Special Assembly for the Amazon of the Synod of Bishops that will take place this upcoming October 6-27 on the theme, ‘Amazonia: New Paths for the Church and for an Integral Ecology.’”
Born out of Pope Francis’s 2015 environmental encyclical, Laudato si, which called for a “lifestyle and spirituality” to resist the “technocratic paradigm,” Pope Francis announced the Amazonian Synod on Sunday, October 15, 2017.
Three months later – on January 19, 2018 — he convoked the first pre-synodal council meeting during his apostolic visit to Puerto Maldonado, Perù.
There, in an address to indigenous people of Amazonia, the Holy Father spoke of the “deep wounds” suffered by Amazonian peoples, at the hands of business interests and the “conservation” movement.
He told those assembled: “I consider it essential to begin creating institutional expressions of respect, recognition and dialogue with the native peoples, acknowledging and recovering their native cultures, languages, traditions, rights and spirituality.”
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