I understand your concern here because the optics of the incident, the way they were portrayed, especially in certain parts of Catholic media, including by various internet Catholics who ought to know better, but have some hostility towards the current pontificate and who are not following the catechisms and frankly the moral law as a requirement to give things a favorable interpretation and seeking to understand them from the perspective of the people who are involved in an action, and what they were doing and trying to do and what they were not trying to do. They just hauled off and said, “This is an idol and these people are worshiping it’ and they misled a bunch of people into thinking that was the case. But that was not the case.
The statue, because that was what it was because it was not an idol, even though you can hear people say it was although that really was not well-grounded. People, what it was was a symbol of Mother Earth. In the local languages down there, Pachamama means Mother Earth, and Mother Earth is a personification of the planet we live on. We use Mother Earth even in English, um. If you watch Charlotte’s Web, they even have a song in there about Mother Earth and Father Time. And so Mother Earth is a common way of personifying the world we live in. And there’s nothing wrong with personifying the earth. In fact, um…
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So very clueless…
Well Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care. Vigano is the best interpreter of the signs of the times.
Riiiiight. And a Franciscan prostrated himself to it. Not an idol? Pffft
WHEN, Jimmy Akin, has the Catholic Church EVER tolerated the display of a “statue” in Catholic Worship of ANYTHING other than the Triune God or of one or more of the Saints? To display in Catholic Worship an image of something OTHER than the Triune God or the Saints (the flags displayed in the Sanctuary don’t fit into this category because they are not being used in worship) IS IDOLATRY!
Perhaps Jimmy was more convinced it was an idol once we found out they held sacrificial ceremonies and offerings to it. Someone send Jimmy that story about the drunk dude who woke up in a coffin after almost being sacrificed a couple years ago.
I heard this live on the Radio and I was disappointed by Jimmy’s response. If you look at the video of the event, if that was not an act of worship by these people, then I will eat my hat. He went down a couple of points for me by dismissing this terrible deed.
“…the moral law as a requirement to give things a favorable interpretation and seeking to understand them from the perspective of the people who are involved in an action…”
Where did he dig this up?
Criminal acts require framing by the perennial Magisterium.