270 bishops, priests and laypeople participate in an Australian Synod. At the July 2 opening Eucharist, they were entertained with smoke, Didgeridoo pieces, and pagan rituals.
Susan, an aborigine, invoked “the ancestral male and female spirits" and asked them for permission "to be here in ceremony this afternoon” (video below).
Darwin Bishop Charles Gauci said at the Synod that "the Church" has incorporated indigenous symbolism in liturgies "over the years in different cultures” and asked cluelessly, “If we use some of the Aboriginal symbols for cleansing, what’s wrong with that?”
Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge, 73, still remembered that governance in the Church is "tied to ordination" and noticed that "there’s something going on" calling this "a bit tectonic" (video here).
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