Argentine Diocese Mocking Our Lady with "Pachamama Prayer"

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Argentine Diocese Mocking Our Lady with "Pachamama Prayer"

gloria.tv | August 6, 2021

Venado Tuerto Diocese, Argentina, posted through Caritas, its relief organisation, on August 1 ("Pachamama Day") a spoof of the Hail Mary calling it “a prayer.”

Pachamama is an Andean idol venerated by pagans and the Francis party. This is the text:

”Hail Pachamama, sweet source of our life, may you be forever venerated.
Blessed are the fruits of your womb, our daily bread, may you be blessed now and forever.
Look with compassion, Holy Mother, upon the human pack that destroys you out of ambition.
Blessed be your clemency, Pachamama.
My land is preyed upon by madness.
You are the source of life and joy.
Pachamama, holy land, Holy Mother, Virgin Mary.”

The social media post presented Pachamama as a symbol of fertility, of the earth, and of a sacredness of life, claiming that it is “full of spiritual meaning." This was followed by a Francis quote, “Some religious festivals have a sacred meaning and are occasions for gathering and fraternity. These are the new paths for the Church and for the achievement of an integral ecology.”

After a massive pushback on social media, the diocese deleted the post on August 3. It apologised to those who "felt offended,” but insisted that the post's intention was to "communicate our communion with Francis who in the Apostolic Exhortation Querida Amazonia says to us: ‘It is possible to take up an indigenous symbol in some way, without necessarily considering it as idolatry.”