A German-born former bishop and Augustinian has mounted a defence of Pope Leo XIV amid accusations that the Pope once participated in acts of indigenous worship.
Bishop Reinaldo Nann, who served as a bishop in Peru between 2017 and 2024 before entering into a civil marriage but not being formally laicised, wrote for Religion Digital on March 22 that the then missionary Fr Robert Prevost “is not an idolater, nor did he worship Pachamama”. The allegation centres on an image said to show Prevost kneeling during a ceremony linked to Andean spirituality while attending a theology and ecology congress in Brazil in 1995.
