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Vatican Is Training More Priests In Exorcism Rites, As Requests For The Procedure Are On The Increase

Vatican Is Training More Priests In Exorcism Rites, As Requests For The Procedure Are On The Increase

The Vatican is training more priests in the process of performing exorcisms, as demand for the ancient rite is on the rise, Columbus, Ohio’s WBNS-TV reports. Father Vincent Lambert from Brookville, Indiana, seems to have unwittingly become the face of exorcism in his part of the Midwest. He spent three months in Rome, training in […]

4y ago

Catholic Church Has A Secret Method For Dealing With Priests Who Father Children, Vatican Confirms

Catholic Church Has A Secret Method For Dealing With Priests Who Father Children, Vatican Confirms

The Catholic Church has a secret document that lays out instructions for priests who father children in spite of their vows of celibacy, CBS News is reporting. The document specifically states that such a priest must first consider the needs of the child over his devotion to the Church. For 900 years, the Church has […]

5y ago

Researchers Strapped People To A Cross To Authenticate The Turin Shroud

Researchers Strapped People To A Cross To Authenticate The Turin Shroud

The research team from the Turin Shroud Center of Colorado (TSC) in Colorado Springs, recreated a crucifixion using the Shroud of Turin as a guide to scientifically prove its authenticity, Science Magazine reported. The Shroud of Turin is a long piece of cloth with the image of Jesus imprinted on it. It was first discovered […]

5y ago

Donald Trump Says ‘Good Catholic’ Nancy Pelosi Should Approve Border Protection Because Of Vatican Walls

Donald Trump Says ‘Good Catholic’ Nancy Pelosi Should Approve Border Protection Because Of Vatican Walls

Donald Trump made an appeal to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s devout Catholic faith to try and convince Democrats to approve his proposal for $5.6 billion to fund the building of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a New York Times report. Trump, who has refused to reopen the government as the […]

5y ago

Kim Jong-Un Invites Pope Francis To North Korea

Kim Jong-Un Invites Pope Francis To North Korea

North Korea’s Kim Jong-un has invited Pope Francis to visit his country, according to the South Korean presidential office. As reported by BBC News, Kim’s invitation to Pope Francis to visit Pyongyang will be officially delivered by South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in, who will be in the Vatican next week. Moon will embark on a […]

5y ago

Pope Francis Calls For Global Meeting Of Bishops Over Church’s Sexual Abuse

Pope Francis Calls For Global Meeting Of Bishops Over Church’s Sexual Abuse

Pope Francis has called for a meeting of bishops around the world in wake of new allegations in the long-running Catholic clerical sexual abuse crisis and cover-up charges facing church leaders, The New York Times reported Wednesday. The global religious conference, scheduled to run from Feb. 21 to Feb. 24 in Vatican City, is being […]

5y ago

Vatican Removes Reference To ‘Psychiatric Help’ For Gay Children

Vatican Removes Reference To ‘Psychiatric Help’ For Gay Children

Pope Francis has been surrounded by controversy lately. Recently, Inquisitr reported that he was accused by former Vatican official Carlo Maria Viganò of hiding evidence of sexual abuse and misconduct. Now, according to The Guardian, the Vatican has removed a comment by the pope from their website. The comment recommended that parents seek psychiatric help […]

5y ago

Former Vatican Official Calls For Pope Francis’ Resignation, Claims He Knew About Abuse

Former Vatican Official Calls For Pope Francis’ Resignation, Claims He Knew About Abuse

According to CBS News, former Vatican ambassador Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano released a statement on Sunday, claiming that Pope Francis was aware of numerous abuse allegations as far back as 2013 and specifically chose not to seek any further action. In addition, Vigano is subsequently calling for the Pope’s immediate resignation. In his statement, Vigano […]

5y ago

Vatican Breaks Silence On Pennsylvania Grand Jury Abuse Report

Vatican Breaks Silence On Pennsylvania Grand Jury Abuse Report

According to CNN, the Vatican finally broke its silence on the Pennsylvania grand jury report on Thursday, which accuses more than 300 Catholic priests of child sexual abuse, dating all the way back to 1947. In response to the detailed report indicating decades of abuse and cover-ups by priests and bishops in the Catholic church, […]

5y ago

Priest And Former Vatican Diplomat To U.S. Found Guilty Of Possessing Child Pornography

Priest And Former Vatican Diplomat To U.S. Found Guilty Of Possessing Child Pornography

Carlo Alberto Capella, a Catholic priest and former Vatican diplomat to the United States, was sentenced to five years in jail for possessing child pornography in a Vatican court today, Reuters news agency reports. In his own words, Capella had developed a “morbid” desire while acting as a diplomat in Vatican’s Washington embassy. The priest […]

5y ago

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Removed From Ministry By Vatican Due To Decades-Old Sex Abuse Allegations

Cardinal Theodore McCarrick Removed From Ministry By Vatican Due To Decades-Old Sex Abuse Allegations

Retired Cardinal Theodore McCarrick led the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., from 2001 to 2006. Today he revealed that he has been instructed not to publicly exercise his priestly ministry or activity until a final decision is made related to charges of sex abuse that have been brought against him. The instruction was given to him […]

5y ago

Pope Francis On Tension In The Korean Peninsula, Jerusalem’s Status Quo, Climate Change, And Child Labor

Pope Francis On Tension In The Korean Peninsula, Jerusalem’s Status Quo, Climate Change, And Child Labor

In his annual speech to diplomats commonly known as the Pope’s “State of the World” address, Pope Francis highlighted serious issues concerning climate change, Jerusalem’s status quo, child labor, and the heating tension in the Korean peninsula. The Pope calls on diplomats to support all dialogues “to overcome current disputes and find new ways to […]

6y ago

Pope Francis Tells Mothers To Breastfeed Their Babies At The Sistine Chapel Amid The Stigma Attached To It

Pope Francis Tells Mothers To Breastfeed Their Babies At The Sistine Chapel Amid The Stigma Attached To It

Pope Francis has once again proven that he is the “People’s Pope” after telling mothers of newly baptized children to breastfeed their babies at the Sistine Chapel if the need arises. The 266th Pope of the Catholic Church has made yet another statement that differentiates him from his predecessors as he urged mothers of 34 […]

6y ago

Controversial Pope John Paul II Prophecy Reportedly Revealed By Vatican Insider

Controversial Pope John Paul II Prophecy Reportedly Revealed By Vatican Insider

Pope John Paul II spoke of a vision he received about the future of Europe that a Vatican confidant has now revealed in a lecture celebrating the Pope’s memory. Monsignor Mauro Longhi, who often accompanied Pope John Paul II on hiking trips when he was a student, suggested that the pontiff revealed this prophecy to […]

6y ago

Vatican Says American Catholics And Evangelicals Think Like Islamic Fundamentalists

Vatican Says American Catholics And Evangelicals Think Like Islamic Fundamentalists

This week a Vatican-sanctioned journal published a controversial article that rebukes American Catholics for entering into an allegiance of “hate” with fundamentalist Evangelicals. The paper, authored by close allies of Pope Francis, describes Evangelicals – including multiple members of Trump’s cabinet – as “new crusaders” whose holy grail, so to speak, would be to “submit […]

6y ago

Gluten-Free Communion Gets A No-Go From Pope Francis And The Vatican — Here’s Why

Gluten-Free Communion Gets A No-Go From Pope Francis And The Vatican — Here’s Why

Gluten-free communion has been disapproved by the Vatican as the Catholic Church deemed ingredients other than wheat to be invalid according to strict guidelines for the Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist. On July 8, the Vatican Radio announced the Church’s decision on gluten-free bread used for communion, the Tech Times reported on Wednesday. Citing a […]

6y ago

Pope Francis Makes Interesting Statement By Replacing Conservative Doctrinal Chief

Pope Francis Makes Interesting Statement By Replacing Conservative Doctrinal Chief

It’s been a rough few days for the Catholic Church. First, Australian Cardinal George Pell — the third-ranking official in the Holy See — was charged with sexual abuse after the police received several complaints from alleged victims. Pope Francis made a statement by refusing to have the Vatican pay for Cardinal Pell’s attorney fees, […]

6y ago

Twitter Erupts With Melania Trump ‘Widow Outfit’ Jokes, Tweets Slammed For Being ‘Terrible,’ ‘Inappropriate’

Twitter Erupts With Melania Trump ‘Widow Outfit’ Jokes, Tweets Slammed For Being ‘Terrible,’ ‘Inappropriate’

First Lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump met with Pope Francis at the Vatican’s Apostolic Palace on Wednesday. The Trumps were accompanied by First Daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner. For their first official visit to the Vatican, Melania and Ivanka wore coordinating black outfits that were quickly ridiculed on social media. […]

6y ago

Melania Trump Reveals She Is A Practicing Catholic After Meeting Pope Francis

Melania Trump Reveals She Is A Practicing Catholic After Meeting Pope Francis

First Lady Melania Trump has revealed that she is a practicing Catholic. Melania revealed her Catholic faith after a private audience with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday. When she moves into the White House with her son Barron this summer, Melania, according to reports, will be the first Catholic to officially live in […]

7y ago

Melania, Ivanka Trump Wear Veils At The Vatican After Forgoing Head Scarves In Saudi Arabia

Melania, Ivanka Trump Wear Veils At The Vatican After Forgoing Head Scarves In Saudi Arabia

First Lady Melania Trump chose to stick to Vatican tradition by wearing a black dress and a traditional black lace mantilla or veil when she met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday. Melania met with Pope Francis after arriving in Italy on Tuesday with her husband, President Donald Trump. Melania wore a black […]

7y ago

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