Amazon region’s bishops lament clericalism, fear of synodality
August 25, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: At the conclusion of a five-day meeting in Bogotá, Colombia, the bishops of the Ecclesial Conference of the Amazon (CEAMA) issued a Spanish-language message entitled “CEAMA, a sign of hope: Five years after the Amazon Synod.”
CEAMA stated that the bishops “pointed out certain resistances present in this process: fears of change towards a synodal Church, attitudes of clericalism, authoritarianism, or lack of missionary audacity. Faced with these challenges, they reaffirmed their desire to continue building a prophetic, close, and missionary Church.”
“The meeting renewed CEAMA’s commitment to be a Church centered on baptism, walking alongside the peoples, listening to their ancestral wisdom, and decisively taking on the care of our common home in the face of the climate crisis,” CEAMA added.
At the beginning of their meeting, the bishops had received pointed guidance from Pope Leo XIV, who asked them to announce Jesus Christ “with clarity and immense charity.”
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Posted by: grateful1 -
Aug. 26, 2025 10:03 PM ET USA
Sounds like they miss Pope Pachamama terribly.
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Posted by: feedback -
Aug. 25, 2025 8:51 AM ET USA
In 2025, the Amazon Bishops lament clericalism, authoritarianism, and the lack of missionary audacity. But six years ago, at the 2019 Amazon Synod (with pagan idols brought to the Vatican) one of the Bishops boasted that “in thirty years working in the Amazon region, he’s never baptized an indigenous person.” That would be the very definition of clericalism, authoritarianism, and lack of missionary audacity. https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/pachamama-or-virgin-which-does-synod-revere/
