Most Rev. José Luis Azcona, Bishop Emeritus of the Marajó Prelature in the Amazon area of Belém do Pará, Brazil, has sounded the alarm: “The Amazon, at least the Brazilian part of it, is no longer Catholic” because it has “a Pentecostal majority” that in some regions “reaches 80%.”

The reason? Under the pretext of “intercultural dialogue,” Catholic missionaries no longer evangelize or baptize. However, evangelicals do evangelize and work very hard indeed. While Catholic missionaries talk to Indians about “deforestation,” “climate change,” and “integral ecology,” Protestant pastors visit their communities with Bible in hand.

The Instrumentum laboris for the coming synodal assembly theologically justifies this “preferential option” for Mother Earth. They claim the Amazon region is an epiphanic place that manifests the divine.

By emphasizing this option, the synod’s promoters will be repeating the same pastoral mistake that led to the flight of millions of Catholic faithful to the evangelical religion.

When I first visited Brazil, the country’s population was 88.2 million, of whom 92% were Catholic and 5.2% evangelical (1970 census). In 2018, the population more than doubled to 208 million, but the proportion of Catholics dropped to 64.6% as evangelicals rose to 22.2% (figures are worse as the latest available data is from the 2010 census).

A Mission That Baptized No One in Fifty-Three Years
The Flawed Evangelization Model of the Pan-Amazonian Synod

Based on this figure and assuming a similar rate of loss, the Catholic Church lost 57 million faithful over the last fifty years. Worse still, according to the projections of demography Professor José Eustáquio Diniz Alves, at the current rate of “religious transition,” Catholics will likely drop to 50% of the population within the next three years. They will be surpassed in numbers by evangelicals before 2032, as the following graphic shows.

Who is to blame for this crime? The blame can be laid on the famous policy of “preferential option for the poor,” which the Latin American Church adopted in 1968. The evangelicals themselves point this out.

As early as 2001, Time magazine journalist Richard N. Ostling published an article titled “The Battle for Latin America’s Soul,” describing how Catholicism “is facing ‘a serious crisis. As the Evangelical movement grows stronger by the day, the Catholic Church is getting weaker and weaker.’”¹

He wrote that “most Evangelicals appear to succeed because they usually preach a purely spiritual message.” To support this hypothesis, he quotes statements by Henrique Mafra Caldeira de Andrada, head of the Protestant Program at Rio’s Institute of Religious Studies, who thinks Catholic advocates of the social gospel failed to realize that “these [poor] people were hungry for more than just food. The Evangelicals met the peoples’ emotional and spiritual needs better.”

Time puts the cherry on the cake by quoting Pastor Nilson Fanini, at the time the highest Baptist authority in Brazil, who declared unambiguously, “The Catholic Church opted for the poor, but the poor opted for the Evangelicals.”

Eternal and Natural Law: The Foundation of Morals and Law

Alan Riding, writing for The New York Times, came to the same conclusion fourteen years earlier: “For many religious experts, while the 1970s will be remembered in Latin America for the dramatic changes in the Catholic Church, which ended its traditional alliance with local elites and declared ‘a preferential option for the poor,’ the 1980’s will be marked by the advance of evangelism.” Linking the two phenomena, he adds, “‘The Brazilian believes in gods, spirits, mysticism, miracles and so on,’ said Richard Sturz, an American-born Baptist missionary who has worked here since 1949. ‘When the Catholic Church began modernizing itself in the 1960s, it eliminated much of the mystery, so it left a vacuum.’”²

While evangelicals filled this void throughout the country, it is now being disputed in the Amazon in a struggle between shamans and evangelical pastors. Instead of abandoning its purely earthly, ecological-Marxist “preferential options” and starting once again to preach the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Pan-Amazon Synod seems bent on backing the shamans against the pastors.

As Edmund Burke put it, “They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”

More articles related to the upcoming Synod on the Amazon may be found on Pan-Amazon Synod Watch, at https://panamazonsynodwatch.com/.

1. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,156277,00.html.
2. https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/25/world/in-brazil-evangelicals-are-on-rise.html.

Read the source: https://www.tfp.org/pan-amazon-synod-will-address-a-region-that-is-no-longer-catholic/

Pope Francis asks forgiveness for offense of throwing indigenous figures in river

ROME REPORTS in English

Oct 25,2019

Pope Francis says Pachamamas Retrieved from Tiber River – Taylor Struggles and Reflects (#323)

Dr Taylor Marshall

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Vatican Press Briefing on Amazon Synod: October 16, 2019 – Small-Group Discussions Continue at Halfway Point of Synod http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/16/vatican-press-briefing-on-amazon-synod-october-16-2019-small-group-discussions-continue-at-halfway-point-of-synod/

AMAZON SYNOD PROPOSES NEW EPISCOPAL BODY TO IMPLEMENT POPE’S DECREES http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/16/amazon-synod-proposes-new-episcopal-body-to-implement-popes-decrees/

ANTONIO SOCCI: THE SCOURGE OF POPE FRANCIS – Ambiguity and confusion reign under this pontificate http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/14/antonio-socci-the-scourge-of-pope-francis-ambiguity-and-confusion-reign-under-this-pontificate/

SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM AS PRIMITIVE: Leftism has always been rooted in the desire for regression http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/14/socialism-and-communism-as-primitive-leftism-has-always-been-rooted-in-the-desire-for-regression/

‘Circoli Minori’ Begin at Synod of Bishops on the Amazon: Explained During Briefing at Holy See Press Office http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/10/circoli-minori-begin-at-synod-of-bishops-on-the-amazon-explained-during-briefing-at-holy-see-press-office/

BACKLASH TO AMAZON SYNOD FATHERS’ PROPOSAL OF ‘ECOLOGICAL SINS’: Catholics slam cardinals for diverting attention from priestly sex abuse crisis http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/10/backlash-to-amazon-synod-fathers-proposal-of-ecological-sins-catholics-slam-cardinals-for-diverting-attention-from-priestly-sex-abuse-crisis/

CARDINAL ROBERT SARAH: AMAZON SYNOD’S PUSH FOR MARRIED PRIESTS ‘INSULT TO GOD’ – Connects heart of crisis to atheism within Church walls http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/10/cardinal-robert-sarah-amazon-synods-push-for-married-priests-insult-to-god-connects-heart-of-crisis-to-atheism-within-church-walls/

Did Pope Francis Deny Christ’s Divinity? 2019 Scalfari Interview http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/10/did-pope-francis-deny-christs-divinity-2019-scalfari-interview/

Eugenio Scalfari: Pope Francis Told Me That Jesus Incarnate Was a ‘Man … Not at All a God’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/09/eugenio-scalfari-pope-francis-told-me-that-jesus-incarnate-was-a-man-not-at-all-a-god/

CARDINAL ROBERT SARAH: AMAZON SYNOD’S PUSH FOR MARRIED PRIESTS ‘INSULT TO GOD’ – Connects heart of crisis to atheism within Church walls http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/10/cardinal-robert-sarah-amazon-synods-push-for-married-priests-insult-to-god-connects-heart-of-crisis-to-atheism-within-church-walls/

Synod Eyes ‘Creativity’ of the Church for New Ministries in the Amazon http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/10/synod-eyes-creativity-of-the-church-for-new-ministries-in-the-amazon/

CARDINAL GERHARD MÜLLER: JESUS HAS BEEN CHASED OUT OF THE SYNOD – German synod leaders describe Jesus as out-of-touch ‘man’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/09/cardinal-gerhard-muller-jesus-has-been-chased-out-of-the-synod-german-synod-leaders-describe-jesus-as-out-of-touch-man/

AMAZON SYNOD REPORT: MOTHER EARTH – It’s not just another ‘Mother Nature’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/09/amazon-synod-report-mother-earth-its-not-just-another-mother-nature/

Eugenio Scalfari: Pope Francis Told Me That Jesus Incarnate Was a ‘Man … Not at All a God’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/09/eugenio-scalfari-pope-francis-told-me-that-jesus-incarnate-was-a-man-not-at-all-a-god/

Pope Francis in Santa Marta warns of the danger of being an ideological Church http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/08/pope-francis-in-santa-marta-warns-of-the-danger-of-being-an-ideological-church/

AMAZON SYNOD REPORT — LOTS OF APPLAUSE (FOR REVOLUTION) And it IS revolution http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/08/amazon-synod-report-lots-of-applause-for-revolution-and-it-is-revolution/

Amazonian tribal leader: Liberation Theology is pushing our people to remain in poverty and misery http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/08/amazonian-tribal-leader-liberation-theology-is-pushing-our-people-to-remain-in-poverty-and-misery/

#TnT: Amazon Paganism in Rome, and Pope Francis http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/08/tnt-amazon-paganism-in-rome-and-pope-francis/

Pope Francis opens Synod: Remember missionary martyrs and beware temptation of colonialism http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/07/pope-francis-opens-synod-remember-missionary-martyrs-and-beware-temptation-of-colonialism/

Amazon Synod Report: Pope Francis — ‘I Want the Confusion’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/07/amazon-synod-report-pope-francis-i-want-the-confusion/

ARCHBISHOP CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ TO BROTHER BISHOPS: ‘BE WARY OF KEEPING SILENT’ IN FACE OF ERROR http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/07/archbishop-carlo-maria-vigano-to-brother-bishops-be-wary-of-keeping-silent-in-face-of-error/

Pope Francis Opens Synod of Bishops for Amazon with Mass in Vatican Basilica http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/06/pope-francis-opens-synod-of-bishops-for-amazon-with-mass-in-vatican-basilica/

Pope Francis prays with indigenous in Vatican for Amazon Synod http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/04/pope-francis-prays-with-indigenous-in-vatican-for-amazon-synod/

ROME ROUNDTABLE: CATHOLIC EXPERTS SOUND ALARM OVER CURRENT PAPACY – Panelists touch on controversial themes of Amazon Synod http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/04/rome-roundtable-catholic-experts-sound-alarm-over-current-papacy-panelists-touch-on-controversial-themes-of-amazon-synod/

CARDINAL GERHARD MÜLLER: BAN ON FEMALE CLERGY A ‘DOGMA’ OF FAITH – Statement follows synod organizer’s claim that teaching can be changed http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/04/cardinal-gerhard-muller-ban-on-female-clergy-a-dogma-of-faith-statement-follows-synod-organizers-claim-that-teaching-can-be-changed/

RACISM WRAPPED UP IN GREEN: Amazon synod pushes climate change alarmism http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/03/racism-wrapped-up-in-green-amazon-synod-pushes-climate-change-alarmism/

PRO-GAY MALTESE BISHOP TAPPED FOR VATICAN POSITION: Bishop Mario Grech of the Gozo diocese appointed to Synod of Bishops, will participate in Amazon Synod http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/03/pro-gay-maltese-bishop-tapped-for-vatican-position-bishop-mario-grech-of-the-gozo-diocese-appointed-to-synod-of-bishops-will-participate-in-amazon-synod/

What Does the Amazon Synod’s Working Document Really Say? http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/03/what-does-the-amazon-synods-working-document-really-say/

Vatican relaxes restrictions on married ex-priests, hints they may be allowed to return to ministry http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/10/03/vatican-relaxes-restrictions-on-married-ex-priests-hints-they-may-be-allowed-to-return-to-ministry/

GERMAN CARDINAL RAINER WOELKI SEEKS TO PROTECT THE CHURCH http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/30/german-cardinal-rainer-woelki-seeks-to-protect-the-church/

AMAZON SYNOD COVERAGE http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/30/amazon-synod-coverage/

CARDINAL RAYMOND BURKE: REVOLUTION IS THE GOAL – Amazon Synod isn’t about evangelization in the Amazon http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/26/cardinal-raymond-burke-revolution-is-the-goal-amazon-synod-isnt-about-evangelization-in-the-amazon/

Cardinal Raymond Burke, Bishop Schneider: Silence about errors under Pope Francis would be ‘great sin’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/25/cardinal-raymond-burke-bishop-schneider-silence-about-errors-under-pope-francis-would-be-great-sin/

GERMAN SYNOD MARCHES FORWARD – Cardinal Reinhard Marx: ‘There is no stop sign from Rome’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/25/german-synod-marches-forward-cardinal-reinhard-marx-there-is-no-stop-sign-from-rome/

REMAKING THE CHURCH: Amazon Synod in the works since earliest days of Francis’ papacy http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/24/remaking-the-church-amazon-synod-in-the-works-since-earliest-days-of-francis-papacy/

POPE FRANCIS TAPS RADICAL PRO-LGBT US BISHOP ROBERT MCELROY TO BE SYNOD FATHER: San Diego’s Bp. McElroy has promoted gay marriage and dissent from Church teaching http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/23/pope-francis-taps-radical-pro-lgbt-us-bishop-robert-mcelroy-to-be-synod-father-san-diegos-bp-mcelroy-has-promoted-gay-marriage-and-dissent-from-church-teaching/

Cardinal Robert Sarah’s Cri de Coeur: The Catholic Church Has Lost Its Sense of the Sacred http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/23/cardinal-robert-sarahs-cri-de-coeur-the-catholic-church-has-lost-its-sense-of-the-sacred/

Centuries ago, popes warned of modern Church crises as if they were alive today http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/22/centuries-ago-popes-warned-of-modern-church-crises-as-if-they-were-alive-today/

Amazon Synod: The Trojan Horse of Liberation Theology http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/11/amazon-synod-the-trojan-horse-of-liberation-theology/

Pan-Amazon Synod Will Address a Region That Is No Longer Catholic http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/09/11/pan-amazon-synod-will-address-a-region-that-is-no-longer-catholic/

CARDINAL RAYMOND BURKE ON AMAZON SYNOD WORKING DOCUMENT: ‘APOSTASY’ – Joins Cardinals Brandmüller, Müller in denouncing synod http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/08/14/cardinal-raymond-burke-on-amazon-synod-working-document-apostasy-joins-cardinals-brandmuller-muller-in-denouncing-synod/

AMAZON SYNOD THEOLOGIAN PUSHES LEFTIST IDEOLOGY: Ex-priest Leonardo Boff promotes liberation theology, neo-paganism http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/08/14/amazon-synod-theologian-pushes-leftist-ideology-ex-priest-leonardo-boff-promotes-liberation-theology-neo-paganism/

Five Ways to Prepare for the Amazon Synod http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/08/13/five-ways-to-prepare-for-the-amazon-synod/

Cardinal George Pell: ‘Amazon or no Amazon, the Church cannot allow any confusion’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/08/09/cardinal-george-pell-amazon-or-no-amazon-the-church-cannot-allow-any-confusion/

Correcting the Synods of Surprises http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/29/correcting-the-synods-of-surprises/

What’s the Deal with the Green New Deal? http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/29/whats-the-deal-with-the-green-new-deal/

The Church at the Service of the Neo-Pagan Agenda http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/28/the-church-at-the-service-of-the-neo-pagan-agenda/

“Politically Correct” Ecology: An Impious and Inhumane Ideology http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/28/politically-correct-ecology-an-impious-and-inhumane-ideology/

BISHOP ATHANASIUS SCHNEIDER, CHURCH LEADERS SLAM AMAZON SYNOD AS ‘IDEOLOGICAL’ TOOL: Calls for institution of eucharistic adoration ‘in all of Amazonia’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/19/bishop-athanasius-schneider-church-leaders-slam-amazon-synod-as-ideological-tool-calls-for-institution-of-eucharistic-adoration-in-all-of-amazonia/

Cardinal Gerhard Müller: Amazon Synod is a ‘pretext for changing the Church’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/16/cardinal-gerhard-muller-amazon-synod-is-a-pretext-for-changing-the-church/

The Amazon Synod Goes Native: The utopians in our midst dust off Rousseau’s Noble Savage thesis and try to convince us that life in the jungle beats life in the air-conditioned suburbs http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/03/the-amazon-synod-goes-native-the-utopians-in-our-midst-dust-off-rousseaus-noble-savage-thesis-and-try-to-convince-us-that-life-in-the-jungle-beats-life-in-the-air-conditioned-suburbs/

PAN-AMAZON REVOLT IS COMING – Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck: ‘Nothing will be the same’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/07/01/pan-amazon-revolt-is-coming-bishop-franz-josef-overbeck-nothing-will-be-the-same/

THE AMAZON SYNOD AND MARRIED PRIESTS: Evil brought into the Church under guise of ‘safe, legal and rare’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/03/01/the-amazon-synod-and-married-priests-evil-brought-into-the-church-under-guise-of-safe-legal-and-rare/

FAITHFUL CATHOLICS SLAM PAN-AMAZON SYNOD WORKING DOCUMENT: October Synod of Bishops transforms Church into ‘secular NGO with ecological-social-psychological mandate’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/06/27/faithful-catholics-slam-pan-amazon-synod-working-document-october-synod-of-bishops-transforms-church-into-secular-ngo-with-ecological-social-psychological-mandate/

Pope Francis and PanAmazonian Synod Plans Revealed #TnT Commentary http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/06/21/pope-francis-and-panamazonian-synod-plans-revealed-tnt-commentary/

Synod to study ordaining married priests, but only in remote areas of the Amazon http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/06/17/synod-to-study-ordaining-married-priests-but-only-in-remote-areas-of-the-amazon/

THE PAN-AMAZON SYNOD: Discussing environmental issues while the Catholic faith erodes http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/03/11/the-pan-amazon-synod-discussing-environmental-issues-while-the-catholic-faith-erodes/

THE AMAZON SYNOD AND MARRIED PRIESTS: Evil brought into the Church under guise of ‘safe, legal and rare’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/03/01/the-amazon-synod-and-married-priests-evil-brought-into-the-church-under-guise-of-safe-legal-and-rare/

BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT VOICES CONCERNS WITH UPCOMING PAN-AMAZONIAN SYNOD: Government is worried Church synod could be hijacked by ‘left-wing agenda’ http://www.pagadiandiocese.org/2019/02/15/brazilian-government-voices-concerns-with-upcoming-pan-amazonian-synod-government-is-worried-church-synod-could-be-hijacked-by-left-wing-agenda/