Philip Pullella
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Vatican Condemns Gender Theory as ‘Confused Concept of Freedom’
The Vatican condemned gender theory on Monday as part of a “confused concept of freedom,” saying in a new document that the idea of gender being determined by personal feeling rather than biology was an attempt to “annihilate nature.” LGBT rights advocates denounced the 30-page document, called “Male and Female He Created Them,” as harmful …
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Is Pope Francis a Heretic?
A group of 19 Catholic priests and academics have appealed to bishops to declare Pope Francis a heretic, in the latest ultra-conservative broadside against the pontiff over a range of topics from communion for the divorced to religious diversity. The most prominent of the group is Father Aidan Nichols, a 70-year-old British priest of the …
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New Forensic Tests Determine Shroud of Turin Is Most Likely a Fake
A new high-tech forensic study of the blood flows on the Shroud of Turin, the mysterious linen some Christians believe is Jesus’ burial cloth, is the latest analysis to suggest that it is most likely a medieval fake. The results of the investigation, in which scientists used a volunteer and a mannequin and employed sophisticated …
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‘Exorcist’ Director Films Real Thing for New Documentary
William Friedkin, director of the 1973 classic film The Exorcist, is dealing with the devil again—but don’t expect more twisting heads, levitating beds or spurts of green vomit. That was fiction. This time, it’s the real thing with no special effects, but it is nonetheless harrowing. Friedkin has made an hour-long documentary called The Devil …
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Did Pope Francis Really Just Deny the Existence of Hell?
The Vatican on Thursday rebuked a well-known Italian journalist who quoted Pope Francis as saying hell does not exist. The Vatican issued a statement after the comments spread on social media, saying they did not properly reflect what the pope had said. Eugenio Scalfari, 93, an avowed atheist who has struck up an intellectual friendship …
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Pope Francis Just Compared This Major Sin Problem to Terrorism
Pope Francis brought down the house, or more precisely the church, on Sunday when he addressed cloistered nuns who were given special permission to leave their convents to see him. At the start of his last day in Peru Francis addressed some 500 nuns, known as “contemplatives,” who usually live a life of prayer and …
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Pope Francis Calls for Re-Evaluation of ‘Lord’s Prayer’
Pope Francis has said the Roman Catholic Church should adopt a better translation of the phrase “lead us not into temptation” in the “Our Father,” the best known prayer in Christianity. “That is not a good translation,” the pope said in a television interview on Wednesday night. Francis said the Catholic Church in France had decided to use the …
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Does Pope Francis’ ‘Passport to Paradise’ Fall in Line With the Bible?
Pope Francis welcomed the poor, homeless and unemployed as guests of honor for a Mass and gourmet meal in the Vatican on Sunday, saying that helping the needy was one way of obtaining a “passport to paradise.” Francis celebrated a Mass marking the Roman Catholic Church’s first yearly World Day of the Poor, which the pope …
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