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PopeWatch: Infanticide

From Sandro Magister:

 

The previous post from Settimo Cielo on infanticide in the Amazon and on those who defend it in the Church struck a tremendous chord.

But there’s something else. It is not true that prominent figures of the synod in progress are unaware of the existence of this practice among some tribes.

Such sensational ignorance could in fact attach to Peruvian cardinal Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimenez, archbishop of Huancayo, Jesuit, vice-president of the pan-Amazonian ecclesial network and co-president of the synod, according to what he stated at the press conference on Tuesday, October 8.

But it is unthinkable, for example, that synod secretary general Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri knows nothing about it, having been apostolic nuncio in Brazil from 2002 to 2012, when parliament was discussing a bill on banning infanticide in indigenous areas.

Above all, one who is certainly in the know about it is Bishop Erwin Kräutler, prelate emeritus of Xingu, very close to Pope Francis, coauthor of the “Instrumentum Laboris” of the synod and a fervent advocate of the abolition of celibacy and of the priestly ordination of married men and of women.

In a statement on April 10 2009, when he was also president of the Conselho Indigenista Missionário (CIMI) of the Brazilian Church, Kräutler admitted that “among some few tribes of the Brazilian Indios, there still exists the cultural institution of infanticide.”

Maike Hickson reminded us of this in a report on LifeSite News on 20 June this year, in which she documented Kräutler’s positions on the subjects under discussion in the Amazon Synod.

In that 2009 declaration Kräutler cited one specific incident where an Indian woman buried her baby alive, saying she gave her daughter “back to the Earth” because she could not handle twins at the same time. “That is to say,” Kräutler explains, “it was the custom, in case of the birth of twins, to entrust [sic] to the earth one of the children.” Thankfully, this buried baby girl was then rescued.

Kräutler explicitly rejects the idea that the state could prosecute those who commit such crimes. He is, rather, in favor of “convincing the people, with pastoral patience, that the culturally prescribed death of a child is anachronistic and undercuts their own strategy of life.”

“We have always fought for the physical and cultural survival of the Indians,” he continues, “and we do so on the foundation of the Gospels, and not with help of the gospel of fundamentalism.”

Thus, he rejects ideas of penalizing infanticide, because “here, in the name of human rights and under the pretext of suppressing infanticide, a broad ethnocide, a cultural murder, is being installed.”

Go here to comment.  Well what is infanticide after all but delayed abortion?  The Pope has certainly had no problem during his pontificate celebrating pro-abort politicians.  Dead unborn and living kids are on their own in this papacy;  the Pope has bigger fish to fry.
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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
Friday, October 11, AD 2019 4:24am

These South American Indians are as savage and barbaric as our own United States Democrats. Our USCCB would feel right at home down there giving pastoral solicitude.

father of seven
father of seven
Friday, October 11, AD 2019 5:28am

With this pontificate, moral standards are only for white, orthodox Catholics. Everyone else will be accompanied. The quote from Krautler is simply emblematic of who these pagans in the hierarchy really are. They are liars, and worse.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Friday, October 11, AD 2019 6:39am

Jesus showed pastoral patience with the money changers in the Temple, didn’t he?

Don L
Don L
Friday, October 11, AD 2019 7:14am

When we drop the politically deceitful nuances, there is really not much difference between having the “right” to kill off a pre-born or post-born baby and killing off any adult who may also appear to be inconvenient. Why can’t we then just “give them back to the earth?
God forbid this transparent evil appears to be creeping into his Holy Church disguised as “pastoral”nonsense.

Mary De Voe
Friday, October 11, AD 2019 8:42am

The ignorance of the rational souls of the human person is appalling.

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Friday, October 11, AD 2019 1:16pm

[…] DEAD UNBORN AND LIVING KIDS ARE ON THEIR OWN IN THIS PAPACY;  THE POPE HAS BIGGER FISH TO FRY. […]

Arthur McGowan
Arthur McGowan
Friday, October 11, AD 2019 1:18pm

Immigrants vote 80% pro-abortion, which means that Bergoglio and virtually all bishops are pro-abortion activists.

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