Tschugguel received international attention in 2019 for stealing statuettes, allegedly of the indigenous American goddess Pachamama displayed in a church in Rome during the Amazon synod and throwing them into the Tiber.
[3] On 21 October 2019 Tschugguel and an accomplice stole five statues, reportedly of the Inca fertility goddess Pachamama, from the Church of Santa Maria in Traspontina and threw them from the Ponte Sant'Angelo into the Tiber.
"[19] Since coming forward, Tschugguel went on a speaking tour in the United States organized by LifeSite News, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property, and Taylor Marshall.
[20] In 2019 Tschugguel founded St. Boniface Institute, a Traditionalist Catholic organisation with the stated goal of fighting paganism and globalism within the Church and to "rally those who do not want to bow down to 'Mother Earth'.
[1] In a public address in 2019, Tschugguel alleged that the United Nations and the European Union overstated climate change and branded it an item of communist agenda.
[23][24] On 18 January 2020 Tschugguel protested alongside von Beverfoerde, Viganò, Roberto de Mattei, and Gabriele Kuby in Munich, demanding "clarity and coherence" and an end to "dissimulation and deception" in the Catholic Church in Germany from Pope Francis and the German Bishops' Conference.