Indigenous people's feathered headdress no sillier than the three-peaked hat worn by certain officials in Roman dicasteries. It was a response from Pope Francis at a sarcastic comment about a pious man with feathers on his head who brought an offering.
Honoring native cultures, he urges the Church to respect their histories and traditions, rather than imposing ideologies on them in a new form of colonization.
The Church cannot be constrained within a particular culture, but having the spirit of Christ the church seeks to find the depth of her soul in the Word present in native cultures, and wants to express it in faith. For long, we may have neglected this richness. It is Christ himself that stirs the conscience of the Church to look into the depths kept aside.
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