Pope Francis strongly denounced “predatory models” that are posing a deadly threat to the lives of the 34 million inhabitants of the Amazonian region.
Synod on the Amazon
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Synod votes to ordain married men, and to protect Amazon’s indigenous peoples and rainforests
The most important thing to emerge from the synod was the unequivocal commitment by the church in the nine countries of the Amazon region to seek new ways to preach the Gospel and to promote justice and stand in solidarity with its 34 million inhabitants.
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Synod calls for more church roles for women, but stops short of diaconate
Members of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon asked that women be given leadership roles in the Catholic Church, although they stopped short of calling for women deacons.
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‘Our common home is at risk,’ says Mexico’s Cardinal Aquiar Retes at Amazon synod
The Mexican cardinal said “integral ecology” and the need for “ecological conversion” have been central points of the synod. “We all agreed that the church should be a factor for wakening consciences to care for the common home,” he said.
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From Discernment to Action at the Amazon Synod | Developing Story
The Amazon Synod has reached its final week and the highly anticipated final document of the synod will lay out a plan to put these weeks of prayerful discernment into concrete action items. Colleen Dulle, host of Inside the Vatican, and Fr. Luke Hansen, SJ, discuss the likely contents of this final document.
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Pope apologizes that statues were vandalized, says they were recovered
Referring to the statue as “Pachamama,” like many media had done, Pope Francis told bishops at the synod that the statues had been displayed in the Rome church “without any idolatrous intention.”
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As the Amazon Synod nears the end, a Brazilian bishop makes the case for women deacons
On the eve of the highly anticipated voting on the final document of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian Region, Bishop Evaristo Pascoal Spengler, O.F.M., of Marajó, Brazil, chose to focus his remarks at the daily Vatican press briefing on Oct. 25 on the synod’s discernment of an “official ministry” for women.
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What it’s like to be a young woman at the Amazon Synod | Developing Story
What is it like to be part of the Catholic Church in Guyana?
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Cardinal Ambongo: The Congo faces similar problems to the ones we see in the Amazon
The cardinal expects the synod’s final document to highlight the different levels of “responsibility towards Mother Earth, towards the natural environment, and on this we are all in agreement. What is said of Amazonia is also true of the Congo basin.”
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From Guyana to Rome, the Synod has proved to be a rich place of encounter
Ms. Casimero described the synod process as a place where Catholics with differences are “coming together” and “able to listen to one another” while also “trying to see and understand from the other person’s point of view.”