Questions tagged [catholic-church]
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, reporting more than a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity.
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Did the body of Saint Bernadette remain intact after 50 years, despite the conditions it was in?
According to this 2019 article in the National Catholic Register, The Marvelous Preservation of St. Bernadette, the body of Saint Bernadette had limited decay, despite:
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Did Richard Dawkins say Pope John Paul II was a hypocrite about Darwinism?
Multiple sources (including Richard Dawkin's own web-site) quote the following from an article by Michael Ruse, which he supposedly wrote for the Playboy magazine.
We who love science must realize ...
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Did Albert Einstein say he admired the Catholic Church for standing up to Hitler?
The alleged quote would be:
Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth... I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel great ...
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Was Alberto Rivera formerly a Jesuit priest?
"Chick tracts" are a series of comic books by cartoonist Jack Chick. The publisher estimates that is has printed over 800 million tracts since its founding.
An issue in this series from 1981,...
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Did the Catholic church prosecute Galileo because he was teaching unproven ideas?
There is a popular Youtube video, Priest Debunks Common Catholic Myths, in which Casey Cole, a Catholic and Franciscan, "debunks" the idea that the church wrongly tried Galileo.
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Did a statue of Mary, mother of Jesus cry in St. Rita's church in Ja-Ela in Sri Lanka?
According to what seems to be this Roman Catholic church's official Facebook page:
Official News :
A miracle did happen today with tears coming from a statue of Mother Mary, during prayers.
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Do historians agree the motive behind Catholic celibacy was primarily economic?
According to a BBC article:
the First and Second Lateran Councils of 1123 and 1139 explicitly forbade priests from marrying - so we are almost past 1,000 years since the Catholic Church has ...
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Did the Catholic Church forbid the use of forks in Medieval times?
A very popular "demotivational" website in Poland has an image that claim that in Medieval times, the Roman Church forbade the use of forks, calling then "tools of the Devil" and threatening to ...
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Did Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi start smiling 45 minutes after his death?
Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi was the Abbot of The Holy and Great Monastery of Vatopedi on Mount Athos, Greece. He died in 2009.
Several religious Christians claim that his corpse started to smile after ...
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Is this an old church being destroyed in France?
I saw this video on Facebook this morning:
2800 churches could be destroyed in France in the next 10 years according to current trends.
Catholicism is weakened from inside and outside, islam is ...
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Have 5% of Australian Catholic priests been charged with child sexual abuse offences?
From The Monthly: Letting Catholic priests into Australia was a mistake
There are around 3000 Catholic priests in Australia, plus a few
hundred retirees. Of these, an astonishing one in 20 has ...
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Did people blaspheme deliberately to be tried in the Medieval European Inquisition courts instead of other secular courts?
On the Wikipedia page about "Criticism of the Catholic Church", there was recently (though removed by an editor since this question was asked) a little paragraph about the Medieval European ...
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Were beavers once classified as fish for religious reasons?
Starting from a comment on this ELL question, it appears to be a fairly common internet fact.
The most famous case involving beavers began when Francois de Laval,
the first Bishop of Quebec, ...
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Catholic church owns 20% of all real estate in Italy
It is claimed that the Catholic church owns 20% of all real estate in Italy, and a quarter of all real estate in Rome. Read here. Even assuming this is the lump sum for all the parishes (not just the ...
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Are the lips of this illumination of St. Mary moving?
The Mirror reports that a video of footage of an illumination of St. Mary, at St Charbel's Church in Sydney, Australia, appears to have her her lips moving to a prayer:
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