I must watch this again. Michael Matt is so balanced, yet at the same time so entertaining. He often makes me smile.
Here we have a Shaman 'blessing' a nun in preparation for the Amazon Synod when she should be teaching him about the spiritual jeopardy he is in by not embracing the truths of the Church. What GREATLY amused me was the Brazilian Jesuit bishop and friend of Francis organising this offence to God claiming that the elderly indigenous people of the Amazonian tribes are the custodians of millennia of wisdom!! The don't say that about aged Catholics with their attachment to the Rosary, respect for Our Lord in the Tabernacle and love of the Latin Mass, now do they??
Against the First Commandment You are correct about the spiritual jeopardy the shaman is in. The nun is not doing the spiritual works of mercy. Correct. I am seriously concerned.
Has it occurred to any of you that paganism and earth worship were deliberately included in the Synod's working document to draw attention away from the pre-determined outcome which will be (1) and end to priestly celibacy through incrementalism and (2) introducing a new non-priestly office in the Church for women with authority equivalent to a Bishop? When the Synod is over, the ensuing document containing some vague reference to Catholicism having been instituted by Jesus, will the reaction from Catholics terrified of schism be "we dodged a bullet there; celibacy is just a discipline, and we won't have women priests"? And will the reaction from ultramontanists and the Catholic Spring crowd be "See all those Francis haters were kicking up a fuss over nothing"? Meanwhile, heterdox priests, bishops and their supporters will be laughing up their sleeves. And some religious orders (no need to name the most likely suspects) will ordain anything with a pulse fully expecting the candidate's ongoing sexual relationship and/or heretical beliefs to eventually be regularised at a future Synod and written into Magisterial documents by the next Pope?
