'Idolatrous' Amazon Idol Used As Monstrance

Serious Concern Has Been Raised About A South American Priest's Decision To Use An Ancient Idol As A Monstrance.

Laudetur Iesus Christus.

Serious concern has been raised about a South American Priest's decision to use an idol of the pachamama as a monstrance during blessed adoration, yet even his Bishop is silent on the matter.

Pictures posted by Fr. José Luis González Santoscoy on Facebook and later deleted show the monstrance in the shape of the pachamama, an ancient amazonian deity, carrying the Eucharist in her womb.

The Photo Posted To Facebook.

The photo was taken inside St. John Macías parish within Mexico's third-largest city.

The Pachamama is a pagan deity of the Andes, which was controversially presented with the Holy Father's approval during the 2019 Amazon Synod.

In October, two men stole at least five wooden carvings of the pachamama from the Santa Maria church in Rome and threw them into the Tiber river.

Italian police subsequently retrieved the idols, and Pope Francis later apologised for the incident, stating the idols were used "without idolatrous intentions."

In November of that year, the Bishop emeritus of Marajó, The Most Reverend José Luis Azcona, denounced the "idolatry and scandal" surrounding the controversial pachamama images present at events of the Amazon Synod.

Experts have blamed "environmentalism and indigenism" for the use of the idols; the latter is a new term identified as the glorification of a "mythical place where indigenous populations lived in peace without the Catholic faith and western civilisation."

They also said, "The idea is that it is okay for some people, especially indigenous peoples, to follow pagan and even anti-Christian faiths and that they will still be saved by God, in direct violation to scripture; this highlights a clear failure of the modern Church."