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Pope Appoints German Scientist Stefan Walter Hell Member of Pontifical Academy of Sciences

Pope Francis appointed Professor Stefan Walter Hell, Director of the Max Planck Institute of Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen, and of the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is of international scope, multi-racial in its composition and non-sectarian in […]

Britain relentlessly becoming land of secularists and atheists

A “dramatic decline” in Christian belief and practice, along with a “substantial increase in atheism,” are recorded in the latest findings on religion from the British Social Attitudes survey. “Over time, there has been a dramatic decline in the proportion of people who identify with Christianity along with a substantial increase in those with no […]

Argentine priest says Benedict wanted Bergoglio as Secretary of State

An Argentine priest who knew Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires prior to his election as Pope Francis claims that in 2005, Pope emeritus Benedict XVI offered Bergoglio the position of Secretary of State, effectively the second most important position in the Vatican after the papacy itself, but the future pontiff turned it down.