Epstein Secrets

ey say, "We can't accept change over millions of years." And— BILL MOYERS: And the theistic theory? ZACK KOPPLIN: Theistic evolution is to say what the Catholic Church accepts, where Pope John Paul II said there is no conflict between evolution and the doctrine of faith. And they just say, "We think God started ev

. And anyway, this Protestant ministers came to Lincoln and they wanted to amend the Constitution to replace "We the people" not with God, but with Jesus Christ. And Lincoln said, "Well. I will do what my conscience and my sense of my duty to my country command." And what his choice to do was absolutely not

o replace "We the people" not with God, but with Jesus Christ. And Lincoln said, "Well. I will do what m

the Catholic Church, which was reviled by many of our founding fathers, including Adams and Jefferson. (“Monkish ignorance” was a clear reference to the Catholic Church.)” Second, there are no such “holdings.” Third, the first case she cited (which had long ago been discarded, if not overruled) contained—in dictum—so

s our kind of people, a real down-to-earth, nice man." Eventually, I did meet her. She kissed and hugged me and repeatedly blessed me in the name of Jesus. When she kissed me, so much of her makeup came off on my face that it took me several minutes and some hard scrubbing to remove it. Several weeks l

So far so good. But then, it went on to describe why matzo had small holes: “The holes in the matzo represent the wounds on the body of our Savior, Jesus Christ, who in his body was punctured during his crucifixion.” Not in the traditional Jewish Haggadah! Tammy Faye had sent me a Christian Evangelical rip-o

ty." The consequence, the Pope said, of a system that has at its center an idol call=d money. At that moment, Pope Francis was not just the head of the Catholic Church. Rather, he embodied the heart of a catholic cry for jus=ice, small "c" catholic, a universal aspiration expressed in our coun=ry by the promise tha

could do it, too, but they're too busy forcing ultrasounds on women who want abortions. Texas could, but they don't because they're too busy put=ing Jesus in the science textbooks. Meanwhile their state is so broke they want to replace paved roads with gravel. I thought we had this road-paving thing l

allenged Justice Scalia, who has written that he would have to leave the Supreme Court if his constitutional views conflicted with his obligation to the Catholic Church, to debate this issue: I hereby challenge Justice Scalia to a debate on whether Catholic doctrine permits the execution of a factually innocent pers

,” I said. “Exactly,” he repeated. He then asked me which dead person I would have wanted to represent as a criminal lawyer. I immediately replied “Jesus.” “Do you think you could have won?” he asked. “In front of a Jewish jury, maybe.” “Those biblical Jews were tough. They didn’t tolerate troublemak

spread of syphilis to the clergy, it felt like | was being readied for Pope Gregory VII’s Eleventh Century celibacy reforms for abbots and clerics of the Catholic Church. It was true that my feelings of dependence on my analyst for understanding and approval were being reduced as | ran into less emotional involvement

oth for a tooth hypertension, the talon principle of the Old Testament and Koran. New Testament forgiveness would yield low blood pressure health and Jesus was a healer. It was about this time in the early 1950’s that Northwestern University social psychologist, Jim Olds, found that rats could be trained

cent lives lost or ruined, then this is a bad thing. Not telling — an omission — indirectly can cause harm. This is the situation that has confronted the Catholic Church over the past twenty years. During the tenures of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, some 4,000 priests sexually abused some 10,000 innocent child

same disorder that led the Australian gentleman we encountered at the start of this chapter to believe that he had two heads and heard the voices of Jesus and Abraham. Estimates reveal a greater number of cases among Catholic than Islamic or Protestant societies, and the fewest among Hindu societies, al