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Before Francis, Pope John Paul II also praised Pachamama - Stone - 04-04-2025
The following is taken from TIA's What People are Commenting section, dated April 3, 2025:
JPII Praised Pachamama
Dear TIA,
Recently I googled "Pachamama" and notices the mention of John Paul II's endorsement, in this long Wikipedia article. Perhaps you might want to do a little more research. Francis gets all the blame for the horror of five years ago, but JP II set a precedent. For him was pagan worship all just fine?
Below is the most expressive text.
-P.O.B.
Quote:Along similar lines, Pope John Paul II, in two homilies delivered in Peru and Bolivia, identified homage to Pachamama as an ancestral recognition of divine providence that in some sense prefigured a Christian attitude toward creation. On February 3, 1985, he stated that "your ancestors, by paying tribute to the earth (Mama Pacha), were doing nothing other than recognizing the goodness of God and his beneficent presence, which provided them food by means of the land they cultivated."
On May 11, 1988, he stated that God "knows what we need from the food that the earth produces, this varied and expressive reality that your ancestors called "Pachamama" and that reflects the work of divine providence as it offers us its gifts for the good of man."
RE: Before Francis, Pope John Paul II also praised Pachamama - Stone - 04-04-2025
See also:
The Roots of Francis’s Anti-Catholic Legacy Will Be Preserved By the Adulation for John Paul II
'Pope Francis is not introducing new ideas; far from it, he is building on the New Theology'
In the Footsteps of JPII: Francis Goes Inter-religious