Idols Drown in the Tiber
October 21, 2019
A BRAVE man today threw pagan idols blessed by “Pope” Francis into the Tiber River, as shown in this video. Used by the indigenous tribes of the Amazon as part of their nature worship, the Pachamama idols, depicting a bare-breasted, pregnant woman, were near the altar of the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina in Rome. Catholics have been observed prostrating themselves before the image in front of “Pope” Francis.
Read more here about the incident, which has been dubbed “Splashamama” and called an episode of “theological racism.”
The statue first appeared at a prayer ceremony in the Vatican Gardens on October 4 and has created a social media frenzy. On Saturday, the image was again present at the Via Crucis procession on Saturday, which included the participation of several bishops from the Synod on the Amazon.
Following the incident, Paolo Ruffini, the head of Vatican communications, repeated that the image resents “life, fertility, mother earth.”
Ruffini said the incident “seems to me to contradict the gesture of dialogue” that the Synod should represent. [Crux]
