On Friday, October 4, 2019, in broad daylight and publicly, at the headquarters of the Catholic Church—the place where Saint Peter and many other saints and martyrs are buried—representatives from all ecclesial ranks (laity, religious, priests, bishops, cardinals, and the highest authority of the Vatican) actively participated in an official and planned act of worship to an indigenous idol, equivalent to the idol Asherah that Manasseh introduced into the temple of Jerusalem.
A rite that lasted more than an hour, which included:
* The erection of an altar or ritual table in the gardens
* Spiritist invocations by a woman clothed in ceremonial vestments
* Prostrations before two facing, naked images of the idol
* Chanting and dancing by those present, holding hands in a circle
* The placing of a black ring and a necklace on the person presiding over the event
* A tree-planting rite, in which soil brought from different parts of the world was mixed and people prostrated before it, asking to strengthen our ecumenical bonds with mother earth, while solemn hymns accompanied by organs and flutes were performed
Three days later, on October 7, 2019, inside Saint Peter's Basilica, specifically in front of the Altar of the Confession beneath which lies the tomb of the first Pope, the same idol was placed on a canoe on the floor, along with other objects such as a rainbow-colored net and photos of murdered people who were referred to as martyrs. About 200 people, including laity, religious, bishops, cardinals, and the highest authority of the Vatican, formed a circle around the idol and began a new act in which a prayer was offered, strange objects were presented, and a procession toward the Paul VI Hall began, led by the cross, amidst indigenous chants, in an atmosphere inappropriate for a Catholic temple.
Upon arriving at the Paul VI Hall, the idol on the canoe was carried on the shoulders of two bishops into the hall where the Synod of the Amazon commenced, and it was placed in front of the presiding table.
In the following days, these idols were moved to the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, near Saint Peter's Basilica, where an altar or ritual table and other elements were permanently set up on the floor of several of the church's chapels. Every day, during the 23 days that the synod lasted, several syncretic rites called "moments of Amazonian spirituality" were repeated in front of the altar.
Various objects foreign to Catholic ceremonial practice were used in these acts, such as canoes, small statues, images of birds, the rainbow net, etc. Catholic religious, an Anglican priestess, laity, Amazonian indigenous people, and also a bishop participated in it.
During the rite, the participants:
* Formed a circle around the idol
* Offered the objects on the ritual table
* Used soil from the Amazon
* Took off their shoes and prostrated themselves face down on the ground
* Made spiritist invocations, chants, and dances
* Even carried a woman in procession on a canoe
As if all this were not enough, on October 27, 2019, the closing mass of the synod took place in Saint Peter's Basilica. The ceremony began with a procession led by a woman carrying a ritual plant, corn, and beans in her hands—which had been planted at the beginning of the synod and symbolizes the balance between the masculine and the feminine, between the energies of the body and the spirit. During the offertory, this plant was brought to the altar after the bread and wine, and the person presiding over the ceremony received it in his hands and instructed that it be placed on top of the altar, where it remained until the end of the event.
These same rites were repeated in the following months in churches and dioceses all over the world.
To deny that these were acts of idolatry that constituted the desecration of Saint Peter's Basilica and many other churches, as well as the setting up of the abomination in the holy place (Daniel 9:27 and Matthew 24:15), can only be the result of a perverse attempt to conceal, or a refusal to face the consequences of, an abominable sin, unlike anything ever seen before in the history of the Catholic Church.