For three weeks in October, 185 bishops, missionaries and scholars, mostly from South America and Europe, will meet in Rome at Amazon synod. Pope Francis has asked them “to find new ways for the evangelisation” of the Amazon region and to respond to “the crisis of the Amazonian forest”.
Although the synod could provide some helpful perspectives on ecological issues, its working document leads me to fear that the “new ways” of evangelisation envisioned by the synod fathers will weaken longstanding Catholic missionary practices and will ignore the relevant teaching of the Catholic Church.
