12/14/2019

Mother Earth: Catholic Church's Emerging Acceptance Of New Age Spirituality

by Thomas Ivan Dahlheimer


The Roman Catholic Bishops conference of Italy published a prayer to Mother Earth in April 2019. The conference did this with a special focus on the Amazon synod which occurred in October 2019. This breakthrough is being equated with the Catholic Church's emerging acceptance of both, indigenous people's and New Age spirituality.

The National Catholic Register and EWTN, an American-based, global television network, are, together, promoting a two-Bishops lead vile campaign against Pope Francis and the direction that the Amazon synod is taking the church. In a National Catholic Reporter article title Amazon synod has set Pope Francis' professional haters on edge ," its author, Michael Winters, wrote: Cardinal Raymond Burke and Kazakhstan Auxiliary Bishop Athanasius Schneider were leading a "campaign" against the pope and the Amazon synod's working document. Mr. Winters also wrote: In this internet age, an auxiliary bishop from Kazakhstan can make a splash, but the particular vehicle for Burke's and Schneider's vile insinuations is the National Catholic Register, an arm of EWTN.

Traditionalist Catholic, Michael Matt, editor of the conservative Catholic publication, The Remnant Newspaper, is a prominent member of the Burke and Schneider lead vile campaign. In a video by Mr. Matt titled "POPE SACHS CHURCH: Vatican Embraces United Nations Goals" there is a picture of John Lennon and Pope Francis together, with the words "Imagine THAT" displayed next to them, indicating that the Amazon synod (as Matt says in the video) helps the Church promote its global agenda to fulfill Lennon's (in general) vision, as presented in the lyrics of the Beatles' song Imagine. Matt also produced a video titled: Hippies in the Vatican: A Groovy Kind of Synod.

The leading Protestant opponents of the New Age are making the same - hippie New Age spiritual philosophy - connection as Matt is, to a prophesied "coming era," that will be ("if conservative Christians cannot stop it") ushered in by the pope and the United Nations.

Fr. Mitchael Pacwa, a renowned expert on the New Age, condemned what he believed to be idolatry at the Amazon synod on his weekly program on EWTN. He talked about the indigenous people's 'Pachamama' (Mother Earth) "idols" that were praised and blessed at the Synod on the Amazon. He also said: "The bishops conference of Italy published a prayer to Pachamama." Concerning the thinking that influenced the publication of this Inca prayer to Mother Earth, he said: "This is New Age like thinking that goes back to the 1970s."

Wikipedia says: "From a historical perspective, the New Age phenomenon is rooted in the counterculture of the 1960s." The Beatles' promotion of Hinduism, according to Wikipedia, "kick-started the Human Potential Movement that subsequently became New Age." The 1960s counterculture, as stated by Wikipedia, "used the terms New Age and Age of Aquarius to refer to a coming era."

In the early 1970s, I prophesied to family and friends that the Roman Catholic Church was going to accept the hippie spiritual philosophy. I believe that it is all coming together now, just as I predicted.

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News: The internationally renowned spiritual theologian, Episcopal priest and eco-theologian, Reverend Matthew Fox, presents Daily Meditation (DM) Facebook postings. On Rev. Fox's December 10, 2019, (DM) Facebook post he presents a 173 word reply comment to my comment, which is a presentation of the above article. This article/comment of mine on Fox's Facebook site has an introductory sentence that reads: If the Roman Catholic Church would recognize the existence of Mother Earth, and then develop a respectful and loving relationship with her, this, I believe, would help heal the world.

A 1970s prophecy of mine: During the 1983 Mr. & Mrs. I. C. Rainbow family reunion my Uncle Don Rainbow spoke with me about (1.) my meeting with Rev. Matthew Fox at the 1983 Tekakwitha Conference, and (2.) my belief that our family was being called to come together in Wahkon, Mn. and form into a counter-culture kinship tribe-to fulfill a most glorious mission. My Uncle Don then addressed the seventeen families gathered at that Rainbow family reunion and said: "A Rainbow is a sign of God's salvation plan and I believe that we may be used to glorify God more than any other family in the world." Today, I still believe in this Rainbow family mission. In the early 1970s I prophesied that the Rainbow family's coming together in kinship tribalism in Wahkon would be the divine providential sign that the Pope would use to call his church and the entire world to live the kinship tribal lifestyle.

Pan-Amazon Synod Watch (PSW) is the name of the largest coalition of associations in defense of Christian civilization. It claims that the Pan-Amazon synod is "a tool to impose a radical eco-tribalist model on the Holy Catholic Church and civic society. A PSW article statement reads: Quoting abundantly from his encyclical Laudato Si, Pope Francis reiterates his “Teilhardian” and New Age worldview of a universe in which “everything is connected” (No. 41). PSW's mission is to defend Christian civilization by opposing Pope Francis' post-Christian, Catholic Church's New Age spiritual philosophy, which (in this synodal expression of the New Age) includes the Pope's kinship family tribalization of the world mission. A Pan-Amazon Synod Watch article on this topic is located here. Facebook posts of mine on this topic are located here and here.

A Return To A Kinship Tribal Lifestyle For All Of Humanity: For nearly four decades leading-up to the Pan-Amazon Synod there had been political and theological divisiveness in the region. For a good part of that time renowned traditionalist Catholic, Plinio Correa de Oliveira, who died in 1995, lead a right-wing resistance movement and established an institute and sister organizing that recently established PSW, which is now in the forefront of the movement resisting the revolutionary changes that the synod process is bringing to the Church and civil society.

PSW is mostly resisting the synodal promotion of global socialism and a return to a kinship tribal lifestyle for all of humanity.  PSW promotes Oliveira's 1977 book, Indian Tribalism: The Communist-Missionary Ideal for Brazil in the Twenty-First Century, as a resource for understanding what’s at stake in the synod process. Oliveira was a climate skeptic and said that the “ultimate ideal of the green movement is to destroy our way of life, including the present-day economic system of the three Americas, which is capitalism, and to return to a tribal lifestyle.” In Oliveira's 1977 book he states his opposition's position (apparently it's now Pope Francis' position): The indigenous lifestyle is much more of a model for us than we are for him.  Indigenous society is the one closest to the human ideal. And it is to this kind of society that we must return.

On the eve of the synod a number of world renowned traditional thinkers and skeptics spoke during a daylong Oliveria Institute workshop in Rome. Cardinal Burke and his collaborator Roberto de Mattei, who penned a biography on Oliveria, were prominent speakers at the event, as was also Cardinal Brandmuller, who, more recently, along with Cardinal Bruke and Cardinal Muller, warned of “serious theological errors and heresies” in the synod's working document. ref. . ref.

Synod document promotes the indigenous tribal lifestyle: Indigenous “good living” expresses true quality of life (nos 8, 26 & 71), and fulfills the utopia of personal, family, communal and cosmic harmony, expressed, in turn, by the communitarian approach to existence and an austere and simple lifestyle (n° 71): “Everything is shared; private spaces — typical of modernity — are minimal … There is no room for the notion of an individual detached from the community or from the land”(No. 20).In this matter, the indigenous people have much to teach us (n° 71), and citizens should allow themselves to be “re-educated” by them since it is through them that God wants us to embrace his mysterious wisdom (n° 72)

The National Catholic Register published an article about the Pan-Amazon Synod. Its author, Edward Pentin, quotes Julio Loredo, a renowned expert on liberation theology. Loredo describes the Synod as  “the blueprint not only for a new Church” but also a new socialist society based on the abolition or attenuation of “private property” and “more communitarian relations.” Stefano Fontana, another famous expert is quoted: “Today the ‘ practice of liberation’ is replaced by the ‘practice of integral ecology,’ so that the primitive life of pagan [kinship tribal] peoples can become a model of universal coexistence.” According to Frontana, the Synod sought a “political model of coexistence” from the indigenous peoples and used that to "challenge the faith of the Church.” Cardinal Muller indicated that the Synod "suppresses the Christian faith in favor of a general, natural religion, ..."

Michael Matt video (1.): In Michael Matt's Sep. 23, 2019, video titled ECO-SOCIALISM: Francis & the Amazon Schism Mr. Matt says in the 6:45 to 7:42 section of the video that Pope Francis's theology "is like the theology by John Lennon."  A part of the Beatles' song Imagine is then played. Mr. Matt then says the pope and his advisers are "like old hippies, they are like a bunch of old hippies who still think Imagine is cool." And then a little later in the video Matt says that "the Jesus that Pope Francis talks about is kind of like the Jesus of the New Age." So, Matt evidently believes that Pope Francis has a hippie New Age theology.

Michael Matt video (2.): In Michael Matt's March 30, 2018, video titled NO HELL BELOW US?, which are lyrical words in the Beatles' song Imagine, Mr. Matt comments on Pope Francis's "heretical" bombshell whereby he reportedly told his good friend, atheist journalist Eugenio Scalfari, that there is no hell. A segment of this video (3:50 to 4:06) presents John Lennon singing the words NO HELL BELOW US. In the video Matt lays out a plan for what Catholics might do to keep the old Faith despite Pope Francis's promotion of modernist hippie revolutionary theology.

Mr. Matt uses a segment of a video by the co-founder of the Pachamama Alliance, Lynne Twist, to confirm his belief that the Pachamama (Mother Earth) Movement, including the Amazon synod, is about being, as stated by Twist, (1.) "a hospice to the death of the old structures and systems that no long serve us" (Matt believes that Twist is including the Catholic Church here), and (2.) a "midwife," to help them give birth to their emerging new structures and systems that we now know in the 21st Century will serve us. (An article of mine on this topic is titled, Global Paradigm Change.)

In a January 10, 2020, article by Michael Matt-he wrote that Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò proclaimed in an InsideTheVatican.com interview that: "The [Amazon] Synod working document testifies to the emergence of a post-Christian Catholic theology, now, in this moment." The acclaimed beginning of "the emergence of a post-Christian Catholic theology" as stated by Vigano, is what I (a few years ago) prophetically announced had already begun. I also prophesied that this emerging theology would eventually develop into a theology that would be used to establishment a "new post-Christian Catholic Church." These prophecies of mine are presented in a few articles of mine, including one titled Mystical Paradigm Shift And A Post-Christian Church.

The Amazon synod's final document mentions mother earth three times. "The wisdom of ancestral peoples affirms that Mother Earth has a female face." Nature itself is treated as a person in the document. Twice, in the document, the "rights of nature" are recognized. Two articles of mine on this topic are located at (1.) here and (2.) here.

In a September 25, 2019, article titled How The Amazon Synod... Promotes The Worship Of Mother Earth, an article published in The Wanderer, a conservative national Catholic weekly newspaper, its author, Rey Flores, identified Gerhard Cardinal Mueller as a world-renowned activist who was protesting against the direction that Pope Francis's Amazon Synod Spirituality is taking the Catholic Church. And, in the article, Flores also states that Mueller has criticizes the synod document for its “hippie” language, such as “ecological conversion” and “mother earth.”

The Amazon Synod Spirituality actually reduces Mother Earth to a less-than-divine entity who is syncritized/inculturated with Mother Mary and then HONORED, not "worshiped". ref.

Google has my defination of the hippie New Age spiritual philosophy placed on the very top of its list of information about this topic.

"A special United Nations event was recently held in celebration of 'The Spirit of the United Nations.' Open to all U.N. staff and Non-Governmental Organizations, the program featured an opening 'blessing song on behalf of indigenous peoples,' an expression to 'thanks to Mother Earth.' And a special rendition of the former Beatle John Lennon's song, 'Imagine,' was played to those gathered at this event." This quote is from an article of mine tilted "UN, Natives And Hippies Unite To Save The World."

Michael Matt videos...
(1.) POPE FRANCIS: 'Our duty is to obey the United Nations!'
(2.) The Pope & the One World Religion
(3.) A part of a video by Michael Matt (including frame 11:05 to the end of the video) is about the Amazon synod and some other topics touched on in the above article.
(4.) A Michael Matt video about Democratic party leaders praising Pope Francis.
(5.) My Facebook post about a Matt video, titled DONALD TRUMP: Vatican Public Enemy No. 1 (6.) A Michael Matt article, titled: The Hippie Pope's Green New Deal

YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION! Toward A One-World-Government and One-World-Religion

In a February 28, 2020, Remnant newspaper video titled VATICAN'T: Catholic/UN Population Control there is a segment (7:04 - 7:22) wherein Michael Matt, the newspaper's editor and video's narrator, presents part of a papal introductory video about a Vatican project, "a global educational pact," wherein Pope Francis says "It (the educational pact) needs to be revolutionary." Matt then says: "We have the hippie guy, he says he is going to start a revolution." Matt then presents a picture of Pope Francis and John Lennon together with the words "Imagine THAT!" in the picture. Then a part of the Beatles' song "Revolution" is played, wherein John Lennon sings: "You say you want a revolution."

This pontifical project or global educational pact will be signed on October 15, 2020. The project aims at primarily educating the world on how to end the global climate crisis. It calls on all nations and peoples to an "ecological conversion," to help "achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals." In response to the world's ecological crisis and other global treats Pope Francis has called for the establishment of a "supranational, legally constituted body," or one-world-government to help heal the world. The educational pact also focuses on interreligious dialogue. The pact, according to critics, promotes religious indifferentism and syncritism, aimed at achieving interreligious harmony and, ultimately, a one-world religion.

More news:

On the ChurchMilitant.com site there is an October 20, 2019, article about "A Dutch bishop [Robertus Mutsaertsis] condemning the Amazon Synod for attempting to turn the Catholic faith into a 'new religion' by 'embracing pantheism' and recognizing 'pagan superstition as a source of revelation.'" ... "There is a 'single mention of Jesus,' in the synod's working document, he wrote in a Thursday post on his blog, 'but not as Son of God and Savior,' but as 'Jesus the philosopher, revolutionary and hippie.'"

A Roman Catholic magazine, the Crisis, published an article about the October 2019 Amazon synod. The article is titled The Amazon Synod Goes Native. Its author, William Kilpatrick, writes in the article that this synod established a "new Church," with an "Indians' eco-friendly, pantheistic form of spirituality," which is "New Age spirituality," whose adherents embrace and promote "the ideas that became popular 60 years ago, a time when many young people [hippies] thought that the 'Age of Aquarius' was about to dawn."