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Pope Francis’ longtime atheist friend and interviewer, Eugenio Scalfari is making headlines again. He now claims in his new book and La República that Pope Francis told him that Jesus Christ did not rise bodily from the dead but “in the semblance of a spirit.” This statement contradicts not only the teachings of the Church…

The pope opened up debate on whether the Catholic Church should loosen its 1,000-year-old celibacy requirement for priests at a three-week meeting of bishops. It is the most controversial proposal at the meeting and an attempt to ease the Amazon region’s shortage of Catholic priests. Since 1965, there has been almost a 30 percent decrease…

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A Catholic school in Nashville, Tennessee has banned Harry Potter books, warning that the spells and curses in the novels are real and reading them could cause irreversible damage. According to the Tennessean, Rev. Dan Reehil, one of St. Edward school’s pastors, says the spells and curses presented in J.K. Rowling’s books are not only…

According to a new Church document, the Vatican has formally opened debate on allowing older, married men to become priests in remote areas like the Amazon in South America. A working document called the “Instrumentum Laboris,” was prepared prior to the Special Assembly of the Synod of Bishops for the Pan-Amazonian Region. This assembly is…
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