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How did an obscure, violence-ridden Latin American cult infect the papacy of two modern-day Catholic popes?
Answer: Both popes – Pope Francis and now Pope Leo – spent time in Latin America where they were corrupted by liberation theology and the nefarious cult of the eco-pagan goddess Pachamama. Both popes at different times were drawn into Pachamama’s orbit, which explains their similarities when it comes to reconfiguring the Catholic Church.
Pachamama is a big deal in Latin America, on a par with Our Lady of Guadalupe. This pagan lady’s “feast” day in Bolivia is celebrated as Martes de Challa day when the goddess’s “divinity” is honored with sacrifices of guinea pigs and burning llama fetuses.
Francis’s Pachamama infection was the more severe of the two popes since he allowed wooden idols of Pachamama to be brought to Rome and for a while to be displayed in St. Peter’s. Francis crossed the line.
The year was 2019. The event occurred on the eve of the so-called Amazon Synod in the Vatican Gardens where Francis actively took part in a pagan ceremony featuring Pachamama statues depicting nude, pregnant women. The pope “blessed” one of the nude statues after which the idols were displayed in the church of Santa Maria in Traspontina, near the Vatican, and carried in procession to St. Peter’s Basilica.
The lie current then was that the idol of the pregnant earth goddess was somehow representative of the Virgin Mary, despite the heavily-sexualized version in the Vatican display where the goddess was cuddled next to a male idol that seemed to have a large wooden erection.
Missing, of course, from Vatican prayers at the time were responsorial phrases like, “All power to John Holmes and Linda Lovelace!”
Pope Francis apologized, not for the idolatry but because the statues were vandalized. In fact, they were stolen by a brave young Catholic activist named Alexander Tschugguel, who took the idols and threw them into the Tiber, the Roman river with the color of the urine of a person with liver failure, and containing the bones of martyred Christians, pagan emperors, and gladiators.
As for Pope Leo, in the early 1990s when he was an Augustinian missionary priest in Peru, old photos surfaced indicating his participation in a Pachamama worship ceremony. These images show him kneeling in an occult circle with others, perhaps clergy, bowing down before a nude Pachamama idol. Popesplainers dismissed the image as photoshopped; the truth, however, was that the photo was from an official Augustinian publication showing the young Robert Prevost in the throes of adoration.
Why was a future pope of the Catholic Church keeling on the ground venerating a pagan goddess?
The Augustinians made no attempt to hide the photo but in fact seemed quite proud of it because, like the Jesuits, they have become an ultra-progressive religious order.
Indigenous belief states that Pachamama is not only the mother of humanity but also of the mountains, the Twins (Sun and Moon), domestic animals, and crops. If this sounds benign, consider the goddess’s other face, as described by Wikipedia:
She is normally a loving and generous goddess, but she can be terrible, cruel, and destructive when she is upset or feels hurt, capable of destroying men and everything above or within her. Pachamama is a primordial goddess who does not need temples or specific places of worship… simply because she is everywhere…
Kind of like God, really.
The photo of Pope Leo as a young priest venerating the pagan goddess rattled the Catholic podcast world. Many condemned Leo as an apostate; some wondered if maybe he had confessed his idol worship sometime before becoming pope, while others saw it as proof that his pontificate was a heretical train wreck. LifeSiteNews took another direction and sponsored a petition demanding that Leo publicly renounce his adoration of the goddess.
As to that last question: Don’t wait for hell to freeze over. Addressing that petition in any way would just give it more attention. The corrupt legacy media that already sees Leo as a new sort of Christian hero who confronts President Trump on nearly every issue has not even reported on the photo. Pachamama, in their view, would be a hero goddess: “Imagine all the people living for today…”
Some podcasters had a field day dishing their peers with the “I told you so” blame game, insisting they were the first ones to call out Leo while the other numbskulls were too stupid to catch on. This waste of energy is a diversion from what should be a point of unity: the fact that the real enemy is the wider Pachamama cancer eating away at the Church.
That cancer is everywhere and it’s growing exponentially.
The German Synodal Church has promised to ordain women and perform sacramental same-sex weddings whether or not there is approval by the Vatican; a Belgian bishop who recently announced he would ordain married men to the priesthood by 2028 with or without Rome’s sanction; caucuses of woke angry Catholic feminists in Rome, some appointed by Leo, demanding women be ordained deaconesses, not tomorrow but “today.”
Add to this the James Martin LGBT brigade announcing it was forming new faith communities to override and implement changes in the catechism regarding gay marriage and relationships, with or without sanction from Rome.
There seems to be an accelerated fever afloat, demonic in its breathless fanaticism and determination. Ironically, one thing these groups have in common is the recognition that somehow Leo’s openness to dialogue and inclusion is really just an artful pose, and what he really wants is a radical push by the liberal bishops and woke laity to make the changes they demand.
Leo’s complicity has been proven so far by his appointment of radically progressive bishops to positions of high authority.
Let’s not forget: Pachamama “does not need temples” and if “she is everywhere and at all times,” it is almost certain she is only the latest incarnation of Pope Paul VI’s contention that the smoke of Satan has entered the Church. The “smoke of Satan” has had sixty-plus years to settle since the close of Vatican II, and it is smoldering wonderfully.
That same smoke certainly had Leo XIV in its grasp when he blessed that block of Greenlandic ice in October 2025 to highlight the “climate crisis.” This blessing was Pachamama-based, a nod to Mother Earth jurisprudence, not to the Virgin Mary but to a wooden, pregnant statue that is sometimes placed beside a male statue with a wooden erection.
What we’re witnessing now in the Catholic Church is the real springtime promised by Vatican II: A Pachamama earthbound pope and Church so thoroughly transformed that even the pope’s public role has become unrecognizable: A pope on record as playing politics and coming out against an American president on a number of issues, even turning down his offer to be a member of his Board of Peace.
Instead of a world religious leader talking about the gospel and the salvation of souls, we have a Peruvian (he is not really American) Che Guevara-wannabe who thinks he’s employed by the United Nations.
