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Ex-pope Benedict denies covering up sexual abuse
Former Pope Benedict has denied that he tried to cover up sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic priests, in his first direct published comments since he stepped down.
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I’m a Porn Star and I Believe in God
Nowhere in the Ten Commandments does it say ‘Thou shalt not do porn.’ Aurora Snow asks Ron Jeremy and other adult film stars: Is it possible to be religious and do hardcore sex scenes?
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Watch The Daily Show pit Pope Francis against the GOP
On Thursday's show, Stewart took his half-serious pontiff crush and ran with it. If the pope is God's conduit to revealing His will — His "infallible emissary on Earth," if you will — Francis has competition from "God's incredibly fallible emissaries on earth," the Republican Party, Stewart said. The two entities — the Holy See and the Grand Old Party — used to see eye to eye on social issues, but no more.
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Pope Francis Says The Financial World Must Stop Worshiping A 'God Called Money'
Pope Francis made one of his strongest attacks on the global economic system on Sunday, saying it could no longer be based on a "god called money" and urged the unemployed to fight for work.
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Date set for Popes John Paul II and John XXIII sainthood
Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII will be declared saints on 27 April 2014, Pope Francis has announced.
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Watch the Sagrada Familia's endless construction come to a close
More than a century has passed since construction began on the Sagrada Familia, the ornate Barcelona church designed by famed architect Antoni Gaudi, and it will be another 13 years before it's...
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Anonymous and Scientology are at war again - on Craigslist
The hacktivist group Anonymous first gained national fame for “Operation Chanology” in 2008. The group hit the Church of Scientology with critical videos, distributed denial of service attacks and orchestrated pranks, like mass phone calls.
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It looks like Pope Francis is serious about cleaning up the Catholic Church
In some respects, the Catholic Church is like any giant, multinational organization. It has some amount of corruption, bureaucratic dysfunction, even crime. But it's also a religious institution, which we generally (and rightly) hold to higher ethical standards than, say, Coca-Cola or ExxonMobil. The Catholic Church is also different in that its chief executive, the pope, has more control over his organization than any CEO.
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Singapore mega-church founder embezzles $26M to finance pop-singer wife’s career
A multimillion-dollar scandal involving a Christian pastor, his singer wife and a glamorous financial executive has gripped Singapore, with allegations of fraud and tantalising glimpses into the expensive process of making a pop star.
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Pope expels German 'bishop of bling' from diocese during investigation
Pope Francis expelled a German bishop from his diocese on Wednesday pending the outcome of a church inquiry into his €31 million ($43 million) new residence complex. The Vatican didn’t say how long Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, 53, would spend away from the diocese of Limburg but it refused calls to remove him permanently. It gave no information on where he would go or what he would do.
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US 'spied on Vatican in run-up to conclave'
The US National Security Agency allegedly eavesdropped on cardinals before the conclave in March to elect a new pope, Italian weekly magazine Panorama claimed on Wednesday.
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'We Hurt A Lot Of People,' Westboro Pastor's Granddaughter Says
Nearly a year after breaking with the Westboro Baptist Church, two of Pastor Fred Phelps' granddaughters are enjoying a new freedom. But as they tell a Canadian newspaper, they also want to extend empathy to those they hurt in the name of a cause championed by the man they call "Gramps."
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Pope Francis Kisses Severely Disfigured Man And Prays With Him
Pope Francis blessed a man with facial deformities during a recent general audience at the Vatican.
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Maher: U.S. Christians have traded Christ’s values for philosophy of ‘F*ck off and die’
Friday night on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” host Bill Maher asked when Christians in this country swapped Christ’s message of love and tolerance for a philosophy of “F*ck off and die” toward people who aren’t like them. Showing an image of Congressional Republicans captioned “Cheap of faith,” Maher said, “New rule: It’s okay if you don’t want to feed the hungry or heal the sick or house the homeless. Just don’t say you’re doing it for their own good.”
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Clean the Rivers, Replant the Forests, Restore the Earth - God's Prophet Speaks
You must take care of the Earth. It has been given to you to sustain you. A beautiful world, a gem in the universe of barren planets and inhospitable places. Humanity knows not of the wealth of this world in contrast to the Greater Community of life that surrounds you and of which you have always been a part.
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Budgeting as an act of social justice
It's stewardship season in many churches around the country. As my friend Jason Micheli wrote, talking about how much money people give in church is probably even more taboo than endorsing politica...
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How I read the Bible differently than John MacArthur
A friend pointed me to Tim Challies' recent interview with John MacArthur in which MacArthur doubled down on the claims made in his Strange Fire conference condemning the charismatic movement in Ch...
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Clobbering "Biblical" Gay Bashing
by Mark Sandlin T his is a bit long for a blog post, but some may find it to be a helpful resource. I wrote the piece for another project and it just wasn't a good fit. Honestly, if you are well read...
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All MEANS All - Amendment One and Bad "Righteous" Anger
I'm still trying to sort out what happened in North Carolina yesterday. My head is spinning like a ballerina doing a fouette. Hey look! I just lost 61% percent of my North Carolina readers. That...
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Mafia are considering assassinating the Pope in response to his anti-corruption sermons
The Mafia are considering a lethal strike on Pope Francis, a senior prosecutor in Italy's crime-torn deep South has warned. The pontiff's life is in danger because his desire to sweep away corruption in 'a total clean-up' is making organised criminal groups 'nervous', the deputy chief prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, Nicola Gratteri, claimed.
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