The interview with atheist Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari set off another round of debate about what the pope meant: Was he saying that people can make up their own minds, even if they disagree with church teachings? Or was this self-described “son of the church” just using casual language to describe classic church teaching about how people need to come to Catholic doctrine of their free will? LINK

In some areas like California, homosexuals can counsel and provide therapy for those confused about their sexual orientation, but Christians are not legally allowed to provide the same counseling and therapy to the same confused individuals.LINK

“Now it is something different. We need to write something different,” he added, according to The Telegraph. … “He has been reaching out to atheists, gays and others. He wants dialogue. We want that too,” organizer Rene Reid said in a statement.LINK

The Office of Personnel Management ruled Monday that members of Congress and their staffs will be able to buy health care plans that pay for abortions, even though the premiums are funded largely by taxpayer money — a move that conservatives say breaks federal law on abortion funding. LINK

(‘Son of God’ Who is Full God & Full Man – O’Reilly strips Christ of Divinity and brings Him down to creature status. Anathema?)

People have a right to take the Bible literally, he said, but in the case of “Killing Jesus,” he was trying to be historically accurate. He never says in the book that Jesus was the Son of God because his book is not intended to be religious. “So is this the Gospel according to Bill?” asked “60 Minutes” correspondent Norah O’Donnell. LINK

In the long interview with the atheist editor of the left-leaning La Repubblica newspaper, he said too many previous Popes in the Church’s long history had been “”narcissists”” who let themselves been flattered by their “courtier” aides. The [papal] court is the leprosy of the papacy,” said Francis, who has brought a new style of openness, consultation and simplicity to the papacy. LINK

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Pastor Jeremiah Steepek transformed himself into a homeless person and went to the 10,000 member church that he was to be introduced as the head pastor at that morning. He walked around his soon to be church for 30 minutes while it was filling with people for service, only 3 people out of the 7-10,000 people said hello to him. LINK

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An adviser to the Department of Homeland Security has used his Twitter profile to defend the Muslim Brotherhood while accusing Egypt’s persecuted Christian minority of inciting against Islam. LINK

Satan rules: AntiChrist # 3 and the precursor John XXIII to become Saints to the Babylonian church.

Pope John XXIII, the pontiff who called the landmark Second VaticanCouncil, and Pope John Paul II, who crisscrossed the globe during his 26 years as leader of the Roman Catholic church, will be declared saints next spring, Pope Francis has announced. LINK

#1 “The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam” –  #1 “Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation” LINK