As Catholic synod deliberates, vandals dump controversial Indigenous carving into the Tiber
Vatican CityRNS Amid the buzz surrounding the last week of this month’s summit of bishops on the Amazon, the debate surrounding a small statue has captured Rome. The two-foot-high wooden carving of a naked pregnant woman was presented as “Our Lady of the Amazon” to Pope Francis on the first day of the synod on […]
ESSAY: AMAZONIAN BISHOPS CONDEMN ATTACKS ON RAINFOREST AND INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE, in an article first published on Religion News Service, looks back at this week’s Amazon Synod…
As Amazon burns, Vatican prepares for summit on region’s faith and sustainability
Vatican CityRNS The images of fires destroying wide swaths of Amazon forest this summer have added urgency to preparations for a major October summit of Catholic bishops on faith, sustainability and development in the vast river basin. It has put further pressure on the meeting’s organizers “to do it right,” according to one adviser on […]
ESSAY: OPPONENTS OF THE PAN-AMAZON SYNOD DISCARD CATHOLIC SOCIAL DOCTRINE
In an article first published on Religion News Service, US Catholic commentator CHARLES C CAMOSY is disturbed criticism of the working document for the synod of bishops of the Pan-Amazon region scheduled to be held in Rome later this year seems to be targeted at Catholic social doctrine…
Faith activists urge UN Environment Assembly to address human side of climate change
Nairobi, KenyaRNS At a small tent on the edge of the UN campus here, environmental activists from the world’s faith traditions huddled on the sidelines of last week’s 11th to 15th March meeting of some 5,000 environmental scientists, politicians and civil society, the fourth gathering of the United Nations Environment Assembly. As the official delegates discussed current […]
Eyeing Amazon synod, Brazil accuses church of “leftist agenda”
Sao Paolo, BrazilRNS While the Vatican’s synod on clergy sexual abuse has grabbed headlines in much of the world, another meeting of bishops, slated for October 2019, is already making news here, with some in the administration of Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, reportedly calling the synod a platform for “leftist agenda”. In 2017, Pope […]