Amazon Synod proposes new episcopal body to implement Pope’s decrees

Nov 6, 2019 by

by Jules Gomes, Church Militant:

VATICAN: Amazon Synod delegates are calling for the urgent creation of a permanent and representative episcopal organization to promote synodality in the Amazon. The group is meant to concretise and implement the directives issued by Pope Francis after the synod.

The new body will work for the defence of the rights of indigenous peoples, the integral formation of pastoral agents and the creation of Amazonian seminaries — a plan proposed by 180 synod fathers Tuesday morning at the 11th general congregation.

The episcopal organization is to contribute to the “physiognomy of the church in the Amazon,” with a view to a more effective common pastoral outreach, and will be coordinated by REPAM (Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network) and integrated with CELAM (Latin American Episcopal Council).

It will also tackle common problems like land exploitation, delinquency, drug trafficking, human trafficking and prostitution.

Both REPAM and CELAM are in the forefront of pushing liberation theology and are vehicles for progressive ideologies, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a source from Brazil told Church Militant.

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