{"id":62688,"date":"2026-05-15T23:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/?p=62688"},"modified":"2026-05-15T23:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:33:13","slug":"the-pachamama-and-the-pope-i-was-there-no-pagan-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/2026\/05\/15\/the-pachamama-and-the-pope-i-was-there-no-pagan-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pachamama and the Pope? \u00abI was there: no pagan ritual\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-133728\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/papa_pachamama-1.webp\" alt=\"pope pachamama\" width=\"604\" height=\"317\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><i>Exclusive to <strong>UCCR<\/strong>: a participant in the <strong>1995 Symposium<\/strong> together with the young Prevost, now Pope. The <strong>Pachamama<\/strong> was not a pagan ritual but a Christian gesture of inculturation.<\/i><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last month we addressed the issue of <strong>certain photographs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The article we published, both <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/2026\/03\/21\/prevost-e-la-pachamama-cosa-sapere-sulle-foto-che-circolano\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Italian<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/2026\/03\/22\/prevost-and-pachamama-the-truth-behind-the-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in English<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, quickly <strong>spread around the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The Pope Images and the Pachamama<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We had analyzed the images circulated by <strong>&#8220;anti-papal&#8221; circles<\/strong> concerning the participation in 1995 of the young <mark><strong>Robert Francis Prevost<\/strong><\/mark> in an academic symposium organized by the Organization of Augustinians of Latin America (OALA), during which a ritual associated with the <strong>Pachamama<\/strong> allegedly took place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While <strong><i>&#8220;LifeSiteNews&#8221;<\/i><\/strong> (the journalistic outlet linked to the excommunicated Carlo Maria Vigan\u00f2) openly described it as a <strong>pagan ritual<\/strong> \u2014 emphasizing that Prevost\u2019s current heresy would therefore predate his pontificate \u2014 the official photographs referred instead to an <strong>&#8220;agricultural ritual&#8221;<\/strong> carried out informally within an event that also included liturgical celebrations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We nevertheless admitted our discomfort with the image portraying participants <strong>kneeling or genuflecting<\/strong> during the ritual, although we noted that Father Prevost was the only person in the photo not assuming that posture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>UCCR and the Symposium Participant<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our investigation led us to contact several Augustinians who <strong>participated<\/strong> in that Symposium in S\u00e3o Paulo, particularly <mark><strong>Juan Alberto Perez<\/strong><\/mark>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Juan Alberto was a delegate of the Secretariat for Justice and Peace in the Integrity of Creation of the Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos and the one who <strong>proposed that ritual<\/strong>, as he later did a second time in an Amazonian context.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He still belongs to the Order of Saint Augustine but, for personal reasons, no longer lives in community. Nevertheless, <strong>he tells UCCR<\/strong>: <i>\u201cI continue to live <strong>in poverty and chastity<\/strong> extra domus within the Church as a deacon responsible for the <strong>pastoral care of the Roma people<\/strong> in the Archdiocese of Barcelona\u201d<\/i>, and he also serves as a hospitalero on the Camino de Santiago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Answering our questions, the Augustinian confirms that <i>\u201cwhen <strong>Pope Leo<\/strong> was still a simple Augustinian friar, he <strong>participated<\/strong> in that Ecotheology symposium together with other Augustinian religious\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Within those conferences, the Eucharist, the Liturgy of the Word, and the Liturgy of the Hours were celebrated, but also what he defines as <i>\u201c<strong>meaningful gestures<\/strong> which today have attracted the attention of <strong>ill-intentioned people<\/strong>, who decontextualize the events from their true meaning\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Stay updated by <strong>subscribing<\/strong> to our new channels:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VbBFa0m9hXF1g4wrUT0z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-132039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/whatsapp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"74\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/uccr_news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-132040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/telegram.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"74\" height=\"73\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8220;Photos Taken Out of Context: No Pagan Ritual&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The \u201cmeaningful gesture\u201d in that case was precisely the Pachamama ritual. Why does he speak of <strong>decontextualization<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Juan Alberto answers without hesitation: <i>\u201cThat gesture was intended to illustrate the theories and practices of <strong>Ecotheology<\/strong>, namely when local Churches incarnated within Andean and Amazonian cultures <strong>express and communicate themselves<\/strong> through indigenous languages and through symbols and signs proper to those cultures\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among them there is precisely <i>\u201ccare for and <strong>respect toward Creation<\/strong>, integrated into the values of peace and justice toward what has been created and into the <strong>worship of the Creator<\/strong>\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, during that gesture, <i>\u201creference was made to fidelity to the <strong>inculturated Gospel<\/strong>, to ecclesial documents and the Social Doctrine of the Church, as well as to the directives of the <strong>Second Vatican Council<\/strong> concerning ecumenical and interreligious relations and the integrity of Creation\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Augustinian is very precise in clarifying that respect for creation was <i>\u201cexpressed through veneration <strong>and not idolatrous worship<\/strong>\u201d<\/i>, that is, teaching wonder <i>\u201cfor what is <strong>God\u2019s creation<\/strong>\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In doing so, <i>\u201ccatechetical language and <strong>sacramental and symbolic signs<\/strong> such as water, earth, and plants were used within <strong>ritual contexts<\/strong> that are deeply meaningful in the ancestral cultures of Amazonian and Andean peoples\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In such contexts, Juan Alberto Perez explains to us, the <strong>Pachamama<\/strong> <i>\u201cmeans <strong>respect and care<\/strong> for the Common Home as a place of relationship among created beings together with humanity\u201d<\/i>, and <i>\u201cit is absolutely not <strong>an idolatrous or deviant cult<\/strong>\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As it is experienced there, therefore, <i>\u201cthe celebration of the <strong>Pachamama ritual<\/strong> is a gesture filled with profound <strong>symbolism<\/strong>, such as recognizing the <strong>value of the Creator<\/strong> manifested in His creatures, in His creation, and in the relationships among creatures themselves\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>There is nothing pagan<\/strong> or idolatrous about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Augustinian repeats this to us several times, also recalling the <strong>decontextualizations<\/strong> and forced interpretations <i>\u201cused to attack <strong>Pope Francis<\/strong> in the context of the encyclical \u2018Laudato si\u2019, or even Pope <strong>Saint John Paul II<\/strong>\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding <strong>Pope Wojty\u0142a<\/strong>, he sent us this photograph as a small example of inculturation: while wearing a Tikuna crown and a Shipibo stole, both typical of Amazonian tribes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-133729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/inculturazione-1.webp\" alt=\"inculturation\" width=\"597\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>What Pachamama Means<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The term &#8220;<strong>Pachamama<\/strong>&#8220;, the missionary explains, originated <i>\u201cwithin cultural ritual contexts, especially in oral, agricultural, and pastoral societies such as the <strong>Andean<\/strong> one, and corresponds to a <strong>Quechua cosmology<\/strong> divided into spaces and times: the janajpacha or higher reality, the ujkupacha or lower reality, and the kaypacha or intermediate reality\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The missionary Church <i>\u201chas progressively become <strong>inculturated<\/strong>, incarnating the Gospel within cultures in order to better reach the understanding of peoples and nations\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is from this that <strong>Black, Indigenous, and Roma theology<\/strong> emerged, namely <i>\u201ca <strong>liturgy adapted in its forms<\/strong> \u2014 more than in its contents \u2014 to the concrete reality of the place\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thus, the Augustinian concludes, <i>\u201c<strong>Pachamama is not a divinity<\/strong> or a fertility goddess, but a cosmology and a <strong>holistic representation<\/strong> of creation\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Words fully confirmed by the explanation provided <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vaticannews.va\/it\/vaticano\/news\/2019-11\/madre-terra-fratello-sole-nella-cultura-indigena-evangelizzata.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in <i>&#8220;L&#8217;Osservatore Romano&#8221;<\/i><\/a><\/strong> by the emeritus bishop of San Crist\u00f3bal de las Casas, Mexico, <strong>Bishop Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-133729\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uccronline.it\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/vaticannews.png\" alt=\"osservatore romano pachamama\" width=\"597\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Why Kneel or Genuflect?<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, the issue of <strong>kneeling<\/strong> and <strong>genuflection<\/strong>, as seen in the photographs, remains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Juan Alberto <strong>responds to UCCR<\/strong> with the same frankness: <i>\u201cGestures such as bodily postures, genuflection, or kneeling <strong>do not belong exclusively<\/strong> to the Latin liturgy: other traditions and cultures also kneel as a <strong>sign of respect and veneration<\/strong> toward the earth that sustains and nourishes us\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Likewise, he says, <i>\u201c<strong>Saint Francis of Assisi<\/strong> spoke the words \u2018sister mother Earth\u2019\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One must understand, he explains, that <i>\u201cwithin the indigenous and rural Andean peasant context, just as in a Christian temple, <strong>kneeling<\/strong> <strong>is not a sign of worship<\/strong> or idolatry of the soil or sacralized earth, but rather of <strong>respect<\/strong> for the place inhabited by life and of worship toward its divine Craftsman and Creator\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indeed, the missionary continues, <i>\u201c<strong>kneeling<\/strong> is not reserved solely for Eucharistic adoration, but is also a gesture of forgiveness, humble respect, and charity, as in the gesture and sign of the washing of the feet\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For this reason, within the same 1995 Symposium, <i>\u201cit was proposed to carry out a <strong>\u2018paraliturgy\u2019<\/strong>, incarnating the Word within an Andean cultural context, accompanied by certain gestures such as kneeling\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But attention, he emphasizes once again: <i>\u201cnot as an expression of <strong>profane or pagan worship<\/strong>, but as a wonder-filled and merciful respect for everything that breathes and contains life, <strong>created by the Creator<\/strong> of all things\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Prevost Participated Only That One Time<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <strong>instrumentalization<\/strong> of the images in a pagan key <i>\u201cis clearly the result of <strong>malice<\/strong>, interested in seeking out and inventing other meanings, taking them out of context and distancing them from reality\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those photographs simply portray what occurred <strong>in other OALA symposiums<\/strong> connected to Ecotheology, namely <i>\u201csmall prayers and some <strong>meaningful gestures<\/strong>\u201d<\/i> typical of inculturation, <i>\u201caccompanied by the brief act of kneeling while reading this text: \u2018We ask forgiveness for our transgressions <strong>against the created work<\/strong> and for not being co-creators with the Creator, but destroyers and transgressors of Creation\u2019\u201d<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Regarding the participation of the then-<strong>Robert Prevost<\/strong>, our sources and Juan Alberto himself clarify that <i>\u201che participated for <strong>the first time<\/strong> in this type of prayer\u201d<\/i> in 1995 and never participated again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Certainly not from <strong>1999<\/strong> onward, at least according to the testimony we received from an important member of the OALA leadership, <strong>Father V\u00edctor Lozano Rold\u00e1n<\/strong>, who was present from that year forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Missionaries and Inculturation<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Those who spread the photographs from the S\u00e3o Paulo Symposium while providing <strong>a desacralizing interpretation<\/strong> against the current Leo XIV should have had this long conversation with <strong>Juan Alberto Perez<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is normal for us Westerners to feel <strong>unfamiliar and unsettled<\/strong> by the concepts of inculturation; it is not so for the <strong>courageous missionaries<\/strong> who \u2014 often at the cost of their lives \u2014 made the face and words of Christ familiar to entire indigenous populations, far removed from the concepts and meanings of Christian theology.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To do so, they necessarily had to <strong>learn how to express themselves<\/strong> through local symbolism, <strong>adapting the \u201cforms\u201d<\/strong> but not the \u201ccontents,\u201d as the Augustinian carefully explained to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our interlocutor\u2019s full ability to <strong>distinguish<\/strong> between an act of veneration and one of worship, between pagan ideology and Christian forms of <strong>inculturation<\/strong>, as well as his clear knowledge of the Andean meaning of <strong>Pachamama<\/strong>, confirms what we had already suggested while analyzing the images.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What the young Prevost participated in <strong>was not an idolatrous ritual<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive to UCCR, a participant in the 1995 Symposium alongside the young Prevost, now Pope. 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