REVEALED: The Clergy Who Attended The Pachamama Ritual With Leo XIV
Here are the names of Robert Prevost's confreres who prostrated themselves on the ground during the ceremony.
A source familiar with the 1995 Augustinian “eco-theology” symposium that featured a sacrilegious pachamama ritual has shared with Kokx News the identities of some of the men who attended the gathering.
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Robert Prevost, now Leo XIV, was among those who were present at the meeting, which was held in São Paulo, Brazil. A video of the proceedings still exists on YouTube:
Names Of the Attendees
The source revealed that the Augustinian who offered the Mass at the gathering was Fr. Joaquín García Sánchez. Others in attendance include Fr. Miguel Fuertes Prieto, Fr. Giovanni Boffelli, Fr. Walker Dávila Rios, Fr. Eugenio Alonso Román, and Fr. John Lydon, all members of the Augustinian Order. Brother Victor Lozano and Fr. Enzo Romano are also believed to have been present, though the source could not say with 100 percent certainty that they were there.
Kokx News has learned that Sánchez, who wrote on a variety of topics during his life and who founded the Center for Theological Studies of the Amazon in 1972, passed away in 2024. Román is also deceased. It is not clear if others who attended the meeting are also dead.
The photographs below identify the persons listed above. The second, third, and fourth images are screenshots taken from the symposium’s original YouTube video.
Fr. Miguel Fuertes Prieto.
Fr. Giovanni Boffelli
Fr. Joaquín García Sánchez.
Fr. Robert Prevost.
Fr. Walker Dávila Rios.
Fr. Walker Dávila Rios.
Fr. Eugenio Alonso Román.
Fr. John Lydon.
Fr. Giovanni Boffelli
Who Are These Men?
The source told Kokx News that García Sánchez was “extremely progressive” and that he “hated to dress like a priest.” Born in Spain, García Sánchez was involved with the Pontifical University of Peru. He also promoted Amazonian culture and social justice initiatives for many decades. Click here, here, here, or here to learn more about him.
Fuertes Prieto is currently the Diocesan Administrator for the Apostolic Vicariate of Iquitos in Peru. He was praised in a National Catholic Reporter article in 2020 for having built a COVID-themed nativity set in the Iquitos cathedral.
Below is a screenshot of a 2021 video of him wearing a COVID mask urging the faithful to take all necessary precautions against the virus. Fuertes Prieto has also promoted the Divine Mercy devotion and praised Francis after his death last April.
In 2025, the Midwest Augustinians released a video of Dávila Ríos asking for support for a soup kitchen he runs in Peru. A 2021 article published on the group’s website noted that he is the pastor of the Parroquia del Santo Cristo church in Iquitos, Peru. Photographs posted on the church’s Facebook page show him saying the Novus Ordo Mass.
In 2022, the Archdiocese and Catholic University of Trujillo honored John Lydon with an award for serving as its president for six years. Lydon also worked as the Director of the Mother Cabrini Institute on Immigration at Villanova University, where he graduated alongside Prevost in 1977.
Now living in Chicago, Lydon serves as the head of the Augustinians’ North American house of formation in Hyde Park. He was interviewed by left-wing outlet Focolare Media in February 2026.
“Building communities in the diversity of its members is at the heart of the Augustinian ideal,” he said. “I suspect that this will be an important part of the perspective [Prevost] brings to the papacy, namely, working in a divided world for unity in diversity.”
The National Catholic Reporter previously reported that Lydon lived with Prevost at the Augustinians’ house of formation in Trujillo, Peru from 1990 until 1999.
Below are two YouTube videos of Lydon. One is an appearance he made on Newsmax following the 2025 conclave while the other shows him speaking about his decision to join the Augustinians. In it, he explains that he was elected as the Secretary General of the Organization of the Augustinians of Latin America (OALA) while stationed in Peru. In 1993, the Organization approved a blasphemous new “creed” that declared, “We believe in God Father and Mother of Life.”
In 1996, the Augustinians promoted the São Paul symposium in a book titled Ecoteología: Una Perspectiva desde San Agustín. Extensive reporting on the gathering has already been conducted by Fr. Charles Murr as well as Mario Derksen of Novus Ordo Watch. Kokx News released its own investigation into the topic with Peruvian priest Msgr. Ricardo Coronado-Arrascue. To learn more about Msgr. Coronado-Arrascue click here and here.
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What kind of vocation story is that? Lydon sounds like he’s Rick Steves giving a travelogue pitch… “accompanying listening and dialoguing” ad nauseam.
Fr Lydon reminds me of one of those lezzie women who run around annoying ICE