March 14, 2013
After only two days of conclave, and five votes, the Princes of the Holy Roman Catholic Church elected Jorge Mario Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina to be the 266th Bishop of Rome. Pope Francis, as he will be known, is the first non-European pope in over a millennium. His election was a surprise on many fronts. […]
February 17, 2013
Pope Benedict XVI will resign from the papacy on February 28th of this year, becoming the first Pontiff in 600 years to abdicate the office. The resignation came as a shock to, not only the billion Catholics worldwide, but to people of every other religion too. And there shouldn’t be any illusions to the importance of this […]
January 12, 2013
There is a dogma in the Roman Catholic Church that the Pope is infallible. This means that not only is the Pope not wrong in what he preaches, but some argue that it removes even the possibility of him being wrong. As the Pope is the Vicar of Christ and God’s representative on Earth, I […]
March 29, 2013
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