Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

[Victoria33]

Posting stories does not equal endorsement. I saw this and I am mulling over it. It sounds like the article says the Brazilian government is setting up a counter meeting in Rome versus this meeting the Vatican is involved with over the Amazon forest. This is not fake news, some articles out there against the Brazilian government do see a bit overboard. I"m no expert, any opinions, any experts welcomed.

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting

An upcoming Amazon Synod at which Catholic clergy from nine Amazon nations will discuss ecological, indigenous and climate issues is seen by Brazil as international interference.

news.mongabay.com

Bolsonaro government takes aim at Vatican over Amazon meeting​

by Jan Rocha on 20 February 2019

• The Catholic Church has scheduled a Synod for October, a meeting at which bishops and priests (and one nun) from the nine Latin American Amazon countries will discuss environmental, indigenous and climate change issues.
• Members of the new rightist Brazilian government of Jair Bolsonaro are eyeing the event with suspicion, seeing it as an attack on national sovereignty by a progressive church.
• To show its opposition to the Amazon Synod, the Brazilian government plans to sponsor a rival symposium in Rome, just a month before the Pope’s meeting, to present examples of “Brazil’s concern and care for the Amazon.”
• At issue are two opposing viewpoints: the Catholic Church under Pope Francis sees itself and all nations as stewards of the Earth and of less privileged indigenous and traditional people. Bolsonaro, however, and many of his ruralist and evangelical allies see the Amazon as a resource to be used and developed freely by humans.

I’d not forget, I don’t know about Bolsonaro but Brazil does have a deep rooted Catholic tradition.

 

[Genesis315]

I’m not sure why these guys are worried. The synod will likely produce a massive tome that no one will read and will be instantly forgotten, except, at most, a few words that grant permission for the ordination of married men to the priesthood in narrow circumstances, which will shortly thereafter be applied much less narrowly elsewhere.

We’ve seen it all before.The synod on youth led to nothing and was instantly forgotten. The synod on the family led to nothing except controversy about communion for the divorced based on a footnote, but was otherwise instantly forgotten. The synod on the new evangelization led to nothing, and was instantly forgotten, etc., etc., etc.

 

[Gabika50]

The government nothwithstanding, annual church meetings and bishops conferences will go on. Many are suspect of that which they cannot control.