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MISQUOTING FRANCIS (AGAIN)

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I usually start my day by checking various news websites. I often say I just want to know “if anything blew up overnight.” This morning my attention was drawn to several headlines about Pope Francis and the Church under a picture of the pope:   "Pope: You don't have to believe in God to get to heaven..." "Catholic priests may be allowed to marry amid Papal changes..." I immediately thought, “here we go again”, some statement by the pope has been taken out of context by a reporter who likely couldn’t pass a first grade catechism class. I was not disappointed. There were two “big” stories about the Church. The first alleged that Pope Francis was declaring that atheists could go to heaven without believing in God and the second focused on comments made by the incoming Vatican Secretary of State, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, on the topic of celibacy. Let's take a closer loo k...   Atheists and Agnostics Just Need to Be Good People   The