Hardline Colombia Catholics shun ‘false prophet’ pope

2a16f1e6688d40f9c012a24f0a0c5fab0d37d467Though millions may turn out to wave at Pope Francis when his popemobile rolls through Colombia’s streets this week, one group of people will not be smiling — or even watching.

They go to mass and their homes are filled with devotional figurines, but for some here, this pope is just not Catholic enough.

“This visit is by someone ‘non grata’, as diplomats say… He is a false pope, a false prophet of God,” says the academic Jose Galat, the movement’s most prominent member.   Continue reading

Benedict XVI says he dismantled Vatican’s ‘gay lobby’

ROME-During the days following his historic resignation, many observers speculated that an alleged “gay lobby” within the Vatican had pressured Benedict XVI to step down. In a new interview-book, the emeritus pope admits to the existence of such a lobby, but says it had only “four or five members” and that he’d managed to dismantle it.

Benedict XVI, Final Conversations is the title of the book to be released worldwide on September 9.

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