Pope Francis’ longtime atheist friend and interviewer, Eugenio Scalfari says that the Pope told him that once Jesus Christ became incarnate, he was a “man of exceptional virtues” but “not at all God” according to an October edition of La República, a Peruvian newspaper. This would go against the teaching of not only the Catholic…

Pope Francis is back after a well-deserved month of vacation with a warning to the faithful. When he resumed his weekly lessons on the Catholic catechism, Pope Francis told his weekly general audience that there was a “supermarket of idols” available in the modern world. These idols, the Pope reminded those listening, promised happiness to…

Catholics everywhere were up in arms when the Italian leftest newspaper La Repubblica reported that Pope Francis said in an interview that there was no hell. The paper quoted the Pope saying “hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of the souls of sinners exists.” Furthermore, the paper quoted Pope Francis making other wild claims such describing…

Salvadoran archbishop Oscar Romero was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, but this human rights advocate will get the last word. Romero is set to be canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Romero’s official canonization was stalled by two previous Popes who felt that the champion of the poor had been too political…

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