Defense Turned Disaster: "Leo XIV Didn’t Worship Pachamama – Just Offered to Her"
Reinaldo Nann - a German-born Peruvian bishop (2017-2024) who civilly married a Peruvian woman in 2025 without being laicised - tried to defend Leo XIV from accusations of worshipping the Andean goddess Pachamama in 1995.
On 22 March, Nann wrote on ReligionDigital.org that Leo XIV "is not an idolater, nor did he worship Pachamama".
However, Nann admits that "the young missionary Robert Prevost did indeed participate in this 1995 ecology and theology congress, and within the context of a Mother Earth ceremony, he knelt".
Nevertheless, Nann "cannot see any worship of Pachamama as a goddess".
"We see an interreligious act where a representative of Andean culture makes an offering to the Earth — a gift and a dialogue with the Earth.' Other people, including Augustinian priests, attended this ceremony, which forms part of Andean culture. Respecting the Earth as a 'being with a soul' does not mean that it is not a creature of God. Pachamama is the earth, or rather the soul of the earth. …More
Robert Prevost’s Marxist-indigenist creed, which renounces God and the Catholic faith and promotes pagan Marxist ideology: We believe in inculturated formation that rescues and values marginalized (PAGAN) (anti)cultures (which were catechized) and emphasizes the (Pagan) communal (Evil) spirit as a primordial value of our (anti-Catholic) spirituality. We believe in the preferential option for the poor—the "poor" of Marxism, set against the "oppressive" Catholic God and the "oppressive" Church—which, as an (Apostate) Order (Sect), we embraced at the Intermediate Chapter in Mexico [1992].
We believe in the urgent need to prioritize (pagan) human promotion—in accordance with the (anti-Christian) reality of our continent—over the maintenance of (PAGAN) (un)meritorious traditions, following the (Rebellious) spirit of the Intermediate General Chapter in Dublin [1974].
"Pachamama is the earth, or rather the soul of the earth. Therefore, we can speak to it just as we speak to the saints." Thanks for the good advice, bishop. This spring I will ask the earth not to nourish any weeds in my garden...and keep the tomato worms away.