There have been Catholics in the Amazon Basin for 500 years, so whose fault is it there has never been an indigenous Priesthood?
As they always do, the usual suspects are invoking Santo Subito John Henry Newman's Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine. There are three things that must always be borne in mind about that remarkable work.
First, he wrote it before he had become a Catholic. Secondly, it is not even his own last word on the subject. And thirdly, it is not in any sense part of the Magisterium.
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