What do these three have to do with one another? It is very interesting to see the prominence that ‘Mary’ has received and is recieving as of late from the folks over at the Vatican. When anyone other than Christ recieves our worship…we have a problem.
Check out this latest story regarding Mary. Full Story
Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. Full Story
What are your thoughts on this? Hebrews 1:2 tells us that Christ created the worlds…notice that is plural and not singular. So biblically we know that there [...]
It is amazing to see the popularity of Haloween this year reach it’s highest grossing revenue ever. It is also amazing the number of Christians that get involved with this holiday….especially in America. Is this overreacting though? Is Halloween Harmless? What are your thoughts?
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The stage is being set for the greatest conflict ever.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Tuesday called for a “world political authority” to manage the global economy and for more government regulation of national economies to pull the world out of the current crisis and avoid a repeat.
The pope’s call for a re-think of the way the world economy is run came in new encyclical which touched [...]
VATICAN CITY (AP) - A Vatican official is lamenting that many faithful no longer confess their sins, and says some confuse a psychologist’s couch for a confessional booth.
Archbishop Mauro Piacenza has told Vatican Radio the sacrament of penance has been experiencing a “deep crisis” for decades. Piacenza, an official for the Vatican office on clergy, says fewer people distinguish between good and evil, and as a result don’t go to [...]
An Age old Theological Seminary has launched a new website to seek to expose the error that is presented in new film based on the novel by Dan Brown. Truth of the matter is that the film is being advertised to Christians and Skeptics. Both will go see it and both will be more confused than they were in the first place. This is probably another good reason [...]
President Shimon Peres is willing to hand over Israeli sovereignty of key Christian holy sites to the Vatican, a proposition that is reportedly opposed by Interior Minister Eli Yishai and that has ruffled feathers among other senior government officials, Army Radio reported on Monday. Full Story
Since the United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic ties in 1984, little attention has been paid to the process and politics of selecting a U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. That’s changing under a new president whose positions have been criticized by several American bishops and conservative Catholics. Full Story
This week’s conference in Rome on Darwin and evolution, nominally sponsored by the Gregorian University and Notre Dame “under the High Patronage of the Pontifical Council on Culture,” has a public relations budget to promote some conclusions that would seem to vary from the positions of Pope Benedict. The Council on Culture has little or no funding of its own for such science conferences and has had to [...]
When a church wants to start telling…err…forcing people to do different things with their money that worries me. The first question I have is why would they care unless they had an interest in those taxes? Check out the Full Story
With hands over their hearts, about 50 people watched the flags of the United States and the Vatican erected at Dalton’s St. Joseph’s Catholic Church Saturday. “Those two flags represent probably the two most important things besides our families. Our country, which is probably the greatest country in the world, and our faith,” said…Full Story
This is direct fulfillment of Revelation 13. It is high time to study things more [...]
MOSCOW – The interim leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, seen as a modernizer who could seek a historic reconciliation with the Vatican and ...Full Story
The Papal office said there were too many laws in the Italian civil and criminal codes and that many of them conflicted with the Church’s principles.
Vatican City State, the smallest sovereign state in the world, will now consider laws passed by parliament on an individual basis before adopting them as their own.
The decision also applies to international treaties and follows its recent refusal to approve a UN declaration [...]
Roman Catholic priests have been banned from using ‘heterosexist’ language in their churches in case they offend gay worshippers.
They have been told by their bishops not to assume that every churchgoer is a heterosexual and to reflect this ‘in language and conversation’. Full Story
Interesting article on what the church of Rome has been up to as of late:
…For one thing, the Catholic Church — at least in the U.S. — is in no position to claim a high level of biblical literacy among its members. In fact, no church can. Almost all American homes have at least one Bible (93%), and about two-thirds of Americans claim to read it with some [...]
In a very interesting article bouncing from the big bang to aliens to this statement:
the human race might actually be the “lost sheep” of the universe…”There could be (other beings) who remained in full friendship with their creator,” he said.
Interesting theology there. Almost as if he believes more than many may know of??? It is said that Jesuits like this man are very educated with the bible and [...]
VATICAN CITY - In a bid to improve strained Catholic-Muslim relations, the Vatican hosted scholars, imans and clerics from both religions Tuesday as it opened a three-day religious conference.
The forum aimed to counter the effects of a speech two years ago by Pope Benedict XVI that angered many in the Islamic world. Full Story
(ANSA) - St Petersburg, October 7 - The Vatican has
become the latest country to join the International Criminal
Police Organization, better known as Interpol.
A request to join the organization was unanimously
accepted by its 186 members meeting here for a general
assembly. Full Story
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The nation’s largest group of atheists and agnostics is suing President Bush, the governor of Wisconsin and other officials over the federal law designating a National Day of Prayer. Full Story
By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Speakers invited to attend a Vatican-sponsored congress on the evolution debate will not include proponents of creationism and intelligent design, organizers said. Catholic News Service Article
In yet another blaspheme to the creator, a man speaking with authority given him from the Vatican has stated the uselessness of Creationism. Fox News/AP Full Story
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