Cardinal Hummes wanted to establish, in agreement with Bergoglio, the ordination of married men in the Amazon, among other barbarities, but Cardinal Sarah together with BXVI frustrated his plans by writing a book in favor of priestly celibacy during the Amazon Synod.
Caludio Hummes: there are questions that refer to the Amazon, on the care of the environment, but also on the creation of a Church with an Amazonian face, an inculturated Church, a Church that knows how to contribute elements of the cultures of the peoples, (...). These words are also his own: "We need an indigenous Church".
The former prefect of the Clergy Congregation, Cardinal Claudio Hummes, 87, has died on July 4, VaticanNews.va (July 4) reports.
He was born in a German settlement Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul, into a German-Brazilian family
He was a leading member of anti-Catholic faction in the Church and owed his career to mainly to Benedict XVI.
Hummes was president of REPAM (2014-2020), the Pan-Amazonian Ecclesial Network that acquired in 2019 the Pachamama statues worshipped in St Peter’s Basilica and the Vatican Gardens during the Amazon Synod.
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