Pope Francis

Pope suggests 'better to be atheist than hypocritical Catholic'

By Jim
Feb 23 2017

In improvised comments in the sermon of his private morning Mass in his residence, he said: "It is a scandal to say one thing and do another. That is a double life." "There are those who say 'I am very Catholic, I always go to Mass, I belong to this and that association'," the head of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church said, according to a Vatican Radio transcript.

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Pope Francis: 'Muslim Terrorism Does Not Exist'

By Jim
Feb 20 2017

"The Pope also reiterated his conviction that all religions promote peace and that the danger of violent radicalization exists equally in all religions. 'There are fundamentalist and violent individuals in all peoples and religions—and with intolerant generalizations they become stronger because they feed on hate and xenophobia,' he said.

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Pope Francis is no Baptist: A wedding without wine is 'shameful!'

By Jim
Jun 15 2016

Pope Francis is no Baptist: A wedding without wine is 'shameful!'

The Vatican -- a city-state of just a few hundred permanent residents -- has the world's highest per capita wine consumption. According to 2014 research by the California-based Wine Institute, the amount of wine consumed in the Vatican amounts to almost 20 gallons for each resident annually.

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