{"id":15939,"date":"2019-10-25T15:05:48","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=15939"},"modified":"2019-10-25T15:05:48","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T21:05:48","slug":"a-few-more-words-on-the-amazon-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2019\/10\/a-few-more-words-on-the-amazon-synod.html","title":{"rendered":"A few (more) words on the Amazon Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:St_Peter%27s_Square,_Vatican_City_-_April_2007.jpg; Diliff [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/)]<\/figcaption><\/figure>Is it an idol?\u00a0 Is it merely a symbol?\u00a0 Is it an idol-that\u2019s-perfectly-OK-in-the-spirit-of-inclusiveness?<\/p>\n

The Vatican can\u2019t seem to make up their minds about the carved figure of a woman<\/strong> (actually multiple such carvings, originally purchased at a Brazilian artisan\u2019s market<\/a>) given a place of honor at various rites during the Amazon Synod.<\/p>\n

A recent National Catholic Register<\/em> article reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is nothing to know. It is an indigenous woman who represents life,\u201d said Father Giacomo Costa, part of the synod communications teams. \u201cIt is a feminine figure [which] is neither pagan nor sacred.\u201d . . .<\/p>\n

Paolo Ruffini, the prefect of Vatican communications dicastery, said that he sees the figure as \u201crepresenting life,\u201d which is basically saying that it is a fertility (life) symbol, in different words.<\/p>\n

The Catholic press bent over backwards to offer various accounts of something apparently so mysterious that it could not be straightforwardly explained by the people who thought it important enough to bring it across the oceans. The secular press was not so accommodating, and said flat-out that it was an \u201cindigenous fertility symbol,\u201d in the words of The Associated Press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When said carvings were removed from the church in which they were displayed and thrown into the Tiber by anonymous men who posted their video on YouTube, there was cheering by traditionalists but anger by the activist group REPAM<\/a>, who accused traditionalists of \u201creligious intolerance\u201d and \u201cracism\u201d and a \u201crefusal to build new paths for the renewal of our church.\u201d<\/p>\n

And in today\u2019s news<\/a>, the pope himself apologized for the act.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs bishop of this diocese,\u201d Pope Francis, who is Bishop of Rome, said, \u201cI ask forgiveness from those who have been offended by this gesture.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pope Francis also reported that the statues had been recovered from the river, are not damaged, and are being kept in the offices of the head of Italy\u2019s national police. . . .<\/p>\n

According to the transcript provided by the Vatican, the pope referred to the statues as \u201cPachamama,\u201d the name traditionally given to an Andean fertility goddess, which can be roughly translated as \u201cMother Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

While it is unclear whether he was using it colloquially, the pope\u2019s use of the term \u201cPachamama\u201d will likely further ongoing debate regarding the exact nature of the statutes, and what they represent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what are these statues meant to be?\u00a0 Are they being reverenced as if they were sacred?\u00a0 Their defenders say they \u201crepresent life\u201d but they are being treated as more of a sacred object than if they were merely symbolic of creation, or God\u2019s blessings, or the like, being included in a procession and in a tree-planting rite.\u00a0 Near as I can tell, for some of their supporters, the statues are meant to represent a sort of \u201cMother Earth\u201d which comes from the sort of neo-pagan sensibility that the earth is sacred, a sort of pantheism that is altogether different than Christian belief in one God who is the creator and stands apart from creation.\u00a0 And some of them have such a vague understanding of what it means to be a Christian that they find it to be entirely congruent with their religious beliefs to reverence \u201clife\u201d or \u201cfertility\u201d or \u201cMother Earth\u201d as a sacred thing in its own right rather than a gift from God, or they have perhaps forgotten that \u201creligious tolerance\u201d means accepting that people outside your religion have different beliefs, rather than one\u2019s one religion becoming meaningless.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Dwight Longnecker<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Now here is the big difference between Catholic images and the statue they are parading around the Vatican.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s really very simple.<\/p>\n

An authentic Catholic image is the representation of a real person who, by God\u2019s grace, has become remade into Christ\u2019s likeness. The saint has become an image of the unseen God.<\/p>\n

A pagan image is not a real person. A pagan image is an idol. It is either a representation of a demon or it is a symbol of some sort of spirit or demigod (which is a nice name for a demon).<\/p>\n

Even if the Amazonian female statue is nothing more than a symbol, we don\u2019t venerate symbols. We have symbols in church. The Chi-Rho is a symbol. The triangle in three circles is a symbol. The Lamb of God is a symbol, but we don\u2019t venerate symbols. We don\u2019t carry them around in processions. We don\u2019t light candles in front of symbols. We don\u2019t put symbols in the middle of prayer circles and bow down before them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, to revisit the original National Catholic Register<\/em> article<\/a>, well, its title says it all:<\/p>\n

Elementary Pastoral Sense Absent From Amazonian Statue Controversy<\/p>\n

Since symbols convey so much more than words, Vatican officials should have clarified exactly what the statue means, before allowing it to be deployed in a paraliturgical context.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the author explains that even in the circumstance in which this was all a misunderstanding and the statue was simply a symbol of the Amazon, a mere decoration, it was inappropriate to have been treated as it was, placed in a side chapel, and in any case the various Vatican officials had an obligation to avoid any confusion, any appearance of idol worship.<\/p>\n

Which is pretty much where I\u2019m at.\u00a0 There are plenty of instances of symbols of the community being used in some such settings \u2014 I will say based on vague memories that a medieval religious processions would have various guild members carrying symbols of their trades, and a side altar funded by a goldsmith\u2019s guild, for example, might have symbols of that profession.\u00a0 But they were never shown any special reverence.\u00a0 And at the same time, I almost have the feeling the Vatican is being cagey about its meaning because they think<\/em> some of the people of the Amazon do believe it is a \u201cMother Earth\u201d symbol, and this doesn\u2019t really both them.<\/p>\n

Who are the Viri Probati<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The synod participants, in addition to yammering about the environment, spent a great deal of attention on the question of ordaining viri probati<\/em>, that is, older married men within a community which is so remote as to otherwise not have regular masses celebrated, only occasionally when a visiting priest arrives.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s are a few excerpts from a First Things<\/em> article<\/a> on the topic:<\/p>\n

Over the last five years, Pope Francis has empowered Bishop Erwin Kr\u00e4utler and his allies, who urge the Church to abandon its general insistence on priestly celibacy. In 2014, Kr\u00e4utler discussed his ideas with the pope. In 2015, the pope asked him to make \u201cbold, daring proposals\u201d for the Amazon region, and two years later Francis appointed Kr\u00e4utler to the committee organizing the Amazon synod. Kr\u00e4utler has related how, last year, he and his allies campaigned successfully for their married-priests idea to be on the synod agenda; now it is thought to be part of the synod\u2019s draft final document, which will be voted on tomorrow. . . .<\/p>\n

He frequently refers to the work of another bishop, Fritz Lobinger, who has written at length on ordaining married men. In Lobinger\u2019s dream set of reforms, the priesthood as we know it will be pushed to the margins: Instead, married \u201celders\u201d\u2014perhaps, dear reader, you and I\u2014will be trained part-time to take up our sacramental duties. We \u201celders\u201d will still wear ordinary garb and do ordinary jobs, but we\u2019ll also say Mass, hear confessions, and so on.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Lobinger writes, there will be communities where \u201celders\u201d outnumber the old-school priests by a ratio of 30 to 1, or 15 to 1, and Catholics may be able to \u201covercome the stage where they prefer\u201d the old system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this is what bugs me more than the question of married priests per se<\/em>:\u00a0 the idea that the priesthood would be reduced to the role of sacrament-doers.<\/p>\n

I have gotten no sense from any of what I have read that these married church-elder priests would be expected to undertake significant theological training.\u00a0 To be a priest, it appears, would become a matter simply of having had the ordination rite performed to empower one to say mass, and perform the sacraments of reconciliation and anointing of the sick.\u00a0 Knowing the teachings of the church, understanding scripture, the whole lot, becomes optional.<\/p>\n

Now, I should say that I also have no sense of whether this is part and parcel of an expectation that indigenous folk are too uneducated for theology to matter to them, or, more general, any knowledge of church doctrine beyond instruction in the 7 sacraments, say, and that what matters more is for them to follow their particular customs and traditions.\u00a0 It also promotes a sense that they are and will always be dependent on their \u201cbetters\u201d of none of them can ever become learned and have to make do with training in performing rituals.\u00a0 And this doesn\u2019t sit right with me.<\/p>\n

And what about female deacons?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s an article in the America<\/em> magazine<\/a> of the Jesuits:\u00a0 \u201cAs the Amazon Synod nears the end, a Brazilian bishop makes the case for women deacons.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the eve of the highly anticipated voting on the final document of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian Region, Bishop Evaristo Pascoal Spengler, O.F.M., of Maraj\u00f3, Brazil, chose to focus his remarks at the daily Vatican press briefing on Oct. 25 on the synod\u2019s discernment of an \u201cofficial ministry\u201d for women. . . .<\/p>\n

At the briefing, Bishop Spengler, 60, a native Brazilian, described the \u201cdecisive presence of women\u201d in the history of salvation, as prophets, judges, the mother of God, saints, papal counselors and doctors of the church. And, he added, \u201cSt. Paul speaks of women deacons serving the community.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we look to the Amazon today,\u201d he continued, \u201cover 60 percent of communities are coordinated and led by women.\u201d Women are the majority of catechists, ministers of the Word and of the Eucharist, \u201cso women have a decisive presence in the Amazon,\u201d he said. . . .<\/p>\n

In\u00e9s Azucena Zambrano Jara, M.M.I., of Colombia, also fielded a question on the topic. A journalist asked the sister, who is an auditor at the synod, what difference it would make for women and their ministry in Amazonia if the pope approved a proposal for women deacons.
\n\u201cThis would confirm our identities, our baptismal nature,\u201d she responded, adding that her congregation, the Missionary Sisters of Mary Immaculate and of St. Catherine of Siena, \u201cwalks together with indigenous people and has been doing so for 100 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to enhance indigenous women,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is what we are fighting for.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And this is what I notice:<\/p>\n

The sister says the ability to be ordained to the diaconate would \u201cconfirm our identities, our baptismal nature\u201d \u2014 which is a very odd thing to say, when this prospective ordination has nothing to do with baptism, as, of course, every Catholic is baptized and only a small number are ordained.\u00a0 The institution of a female version of the diaconate, whether it simply means inviting women into the category of \u201cpermanent deacon\u201d alongside men or creating an entirely new pathway for \u201cfemale deacons,\u201d is a form of clericalism.\u00a0 I am not seeing any explanation of why a female diaconate is important to enhance the ministry of women in the church, now being undertaken as laywomen.\u00a0 I am not seeing something like \u201cin misogynist parts of the Amazon, women are not being accorded the respect they would have if we called them deacons.\u201d\u00a0 I am not seeing, \u201cif we called women \u2018clergy,\u2019 they would be protected from persecution.<\/p>\n

As best as I can tell, this is really a matter of \u201ccredentialing\u201d women and granting them official status and recognition.\u00a0 And maybe either or both of these are worthy things:\u00a0 to say, for instance, that so-and-so is certified as sufficiently educated in church teaching to be able to instruct others, or to be able to bestow on a woman a title of honor for the work she does in her local church community.\u00a0 Maybe that\u2019s really what it means to be a deacon, given that a (male) deacon has no special sacramental powers (he can \u201cdo\u201d baptisms, but so can any baptized Christian), and maybe that means that it\u2019s an entirely reasonable action to ordain women, as a form of commissioning to ministry, a formal recognition, the bestowing of a title, and a credentialing of qualification for ministry.\u00a0 But I wish we would talk about it in those terms rather than as a sort of consolation prize for not having the ability to be ordained priests.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I\u2019ve rambled a lot.\u00a0 Readers, what do you think?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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