REVEALED: Clergy who attended Pachamama ritual with future Pope Leo XIV

(LifeSiteNews) — Catholic journalist Stephen Kokx has revealed that a person familiar with the 1995 Pachamama event that Fr. Robert Prevost attended shared with him the names of several Augustinian clergy who were present at the gathering.

In a video and article published Thursday morning on his Substack “Kokx News,” Kokx said that a “source” provided him with the identities of several priests who were at the meeting.

Fr. Charles Murr as well as Mario Derksen of Novus Ordo Watch reported on the event previously. They both noted that photographs of the proceedings were published in the book Ecoteología: Una Perspectiva desde San Agustín in 1996. A video of the symposium created by the Organization of the Augustinians of Latin America still exists on YouTube. It can be watched below.

Kokx explains that his source told him the priest who offered the Mass that incorporated the Pachamama ritual was Fr. Joaquín García Sánchez. Kokx reports that García Sánchez is a native of Spain and that he founded the Center for Theological Studies of the Amazon in the 1970s. Multiple websites confirm that García Sánchez taught at the Pontifical University of Peru, and that he wrote about and promoted social justice and Amazonian cultural initiatives for many decades. He died in 2024.

Other clergy present at the meeting, according to Kokx, were Fr. Miguel Fuertes Prieto, Fr. Giovanni Boffelli, Fr. Walker Dávila Rios, Fr. Eugenio Alonso Román, and Fr. John Lydon. Kokx’s source told him that Brother Victor Lozano and Fr. Enzo Romano were also likely present but that they could not verify with complete certainty.

Here are some of the Augustinian clergy who attended the Pachamama ritual:

1. Fr. Miguel Fuertes Prieto. 2. Fr. Giovanni Boffelli 3. Fr. Joaquín García Sánchez. 4. Fr. Robert Prevost.

5. Fr. Walker Dávila Rios.