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December 19, 2019

Luke Stocking: Statuette creates an Advent moment

A wooden statue of a pregnant woman is pictured in the Church of St. Mary in Traspontina as part of exhibits on the Amazon region during the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon in Rome Oct., 2019.

I am holding a statuette. It came to our office from the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) of Amazonas state in Brazil. It is a naked Indigenous woman with long black hair. She is kneeling. A child is visible in her red womb. 

Published in Register Columnists
November 4, 2019

Austrian man claims he threw 'Pachamama' statues into the Tiber

Austrian man claims he threw 'Pachamama' statues into the Tiber

VATICAN CITY (CNA) -- In a video uploaded on YouTube Nov. 4, a young man from Austria claims that he was one of the two men who took five controversial statues from a church near the Vatican and threw them into the Tiber River.

Published in Vatican