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-Fr. Dwight Longenecker
One of the most disturbing things about the final dicument from the Amazonian synod is the repeated and unchallenged reference to "Mother Earth."
In the desire to "inculturate the Gospel" the synod organizers are infecting the Catholic Faith with a religious concept which has always been incontrovertibly pagan and which the Christian Faith has always steadfastly resisted. The resistance as Christians to the religion of the Earth Mother was rooted in the same resistance among the Hebrew people.
Continued below.
The Earth is Not My Mother...Here's Why
-Fr. Dwight Longenecker
One of the most disturbing things about the final dicument from the Amazonian synod is the repeated and unchallenged reference to "Mother Earth."
In the desire to "inculturate the Gospel" the synod organizers are infecting the Catholic Faith with a religious concept which has always been incontrovertibly pagan and which the Christian Faith has always steadfastly resisted. The resistance as Christians to the religion of the Earth Mother was rooted in the same resistance among the Hebrew people.
Continued below.
The Earth is Not My Mother...Here's Why