Pachamama Never Happened: And Other Things You Must Believe to Remain in New Church™

If Francis said it, it’s true, even when it wasn’t, and still isn’t, and also never happened

In October 2019, the Vatican hosted a pagan ritual in its own garden. Statues of Pachamama (naked, pregnant fertility idols) were prostrated before, processed into synod halls, and placed in a Roman church where people bowed before them on the floor. Francis not only attended, he blessed the event, and later publicly apologized; not for his own idolatry, but when a layman threw the idols into the Tiber.

We have video. We have transcripts. We have Vatican confirmation. We even have Francis calling them by name: Pachamama.

The Idol That Wasn’t There… Until It Was

The initial reaction from Francis’s defenders followed a predictable arc:

1. “It’s not Pachamama.”

2. “Okay, it is Pachamama, but it wasn’t idolatry.”

3. “Even if it was idolatry, it was beautiful and pastoral.”

4. “And if you object, you’re the real problem.”

Now in 2025, we’ve reached stage five:

“That never happened. You’re crazy.”

But it did happen:

• Oct 4, 2019: A ritual was held in the Vatican Gardens featuring Pachamama statues. Francis watched and blessed it. Attendees bowed to the ground in a circle around the idol.

• Oct 7: The statues were placed in St. Peter’s Basilica. Francis prayed before them.

• Oct 21: A layman removed the idols from the Carmelite Church near the Vatican and threw them into the Tiber.

• Oct 25: Francis apologized—not for the ritual, but for the offense caused by their removal. He called them Pachamama. He confirmed they were recovered and stored safely by Italian police.

• Feb 2020: In Querida Amazonia, Francis wrote that we shouldn’t be too quick to call such symbols pagan or superstitious and that indigenous myths can “be used to advantage.”

You saw it. You weren’t wrong. But you’re now being told you were.

Don’t Believe Your Faith—Believe the Man in White

This is the new catechism of ecclesiastical voluntarism: truth is not what Christ revealed, what the apostles handed down, or what every pope and saint defended. It’s whatever the current man in the chair says, right now, even if he said the opposite yesterday.

Which brings us to Andrew Likoudis.

He recently defended the firing of three professors from Sacred Heart Major Seminary (Ralph Martin, Ed Peters, and Eduardo Echeverria) because they objected to things like Amoris Laetitia, the death penalty revision, and Fiducia Supplicans. In other words: because they said the Catholic faith doesn’t change.

According to Andrew, that makes them dissenters. He doesn’t mean dissenters from Tradition. He means dissenters from Francis.

His position, boiled down, is this:

“If the pope teaches something, it must be Catholic. If you disagree, you’re unorthodox.”

It’s not about guarding the deposit. It’s about never questioning the man in white, even if he installs an idol in a Roman sanctuary.

The Gospel of Whatever the Guy in White Says

Andrew wants you to believe there are only two options:

(a) The pope is always right—even when he contradicts saints, Scripture, and prior popes,

(b) Catholicism is false and you should leave.

That’s it. That’s the whole system. Just choose between blind obedience to contradiction, or apostasy.

But here’s the thing: that’s not Catholicism. That’s theological blackmail. And it’s a false dilemma.

There are two other options:

1. Recognize and Resist

You acknowledge the latest Bergoglian disciple is technically the pope, but resist his non-infallible errors; as the SSPX does now in carefully worded soft-spoken press releases, and as they did in the past from the rooftops when they had a spine. It is what Trad Inc. used to do up until 24 hours after Prevost’s election when they saw dollar signs. Not all Trads agree with the approach, but at least it doesn’t require you to say that “blessing sodomy” is somehow part of Sacred Tradition.

2. Sedevacantist

You believe a true pope cannot teach heresy, contradict doctrine, or praise idols, so if someone does all of that, he’s not the pope. This preserves the integrity of the papacy and doctrine, at the cost of institutional recognition. But at least it doesn’t make you say things like “the Church was wrong about capital punishment for 2000 years.”

Andrew doesn’t want you to think about either option. He wants you to pick between two stupid things: (1) believe contradiction is orthodoxy, or (2) believe the Church is false.

This is not theology. This is cult logic.

Mike Lewis and the Gaslight Papacy

Likoudis is far from alone. Just ask Mike Lewis, founder of Where Peter Is, who said the quiet part out loud:

There it is. Doctrine isn’t received. It’s manufactured: live, on demand, streamed straight from Rome to your conscience.

When criticized, Mike melted down on X, insisting that no, he doesn’t think Francis will allow women’s ordination. He just thinks that if he did, it would instantly become Catholic.

This is what modern papalism has become: a desperate effort to keep the brand alive, even if it means accepting doctrinal time bombs as long as they have the papal seal.

But That’s Not What the Church Has Ever Taught

The actual Catholic doctrine is simple: the pope is infallible only under very specific, solemn conditions. He cannot invent doctrine, reverse morality, or contradict divine revelation.

If what Francis has done, on Fiducia, Amoris, Pachamama, or the death penalty, is truly Catholic, then everything before him wasn’t.

And if contradiction is now a form of continuity, then words have no meaning, doctrine has no content, and the First Commandment has an asterisk.

Conclusion: Stop Pretending

You saw what you saw.

You read what you read.

You heard Francis say it.

The idol was real. The contradiction is visible. The damage is obvious.

And no matter how many Likoudis anthologies are printed, or how many papal influencers get invited to the Vatican garden party, the truth is still the truth.

Unless you believe that God contradicts Himself every few pontificates. In which case…

Pachamama never happened. And she’s beautiful.