#Catholic Church

Step Brothers / Getty Composite The Vatican announced Monday that the Catholic Church won’t bless same-sex unions since God “cannot bless sin,” despite being encouraged to “to welcome with respect and sensitivity persons with homosexual inclinations.” If that convoluted fart was difficult to

Author: John Otis / Source: NPR.org The tunnel leading to Colombia’s most famous church feels more like a byway into the bowels of the earth. It’s dark and dank, with a faint smell of sulfur in the air. But after a few hundred yards, the shaft gradually widens to reveal Roman Catholic icons, like

Author: Tom Nardi / Source: Hackaday While we’ve come a long way in terms of opening up the world of radio control to open source software, a good deal of the hardware itself is still closed up. You can flash a cheap RC transmitter with a community developed firmware, in fact there’s a decent

Author: Jason Horowitz and Elizabeth Dias / Source: New York Times Giuseppe Lami/ANSA, via Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis ended a landmark Vatican meeting on clerical sexual abuse by calling “for an all-out battle against the abuse of minors” and insisting that the church needed to

Source: Good News Network Happy 85th Birthday to Hank Aaron, one of baseball’s greatest players, and the only MLB batter to hit 30 or more home runs in 15 seasons. Aaron also conquered one of sport’s most cherished records—Babe Ruth’s 714 career home runs. For the next 30 years ‘Hammerin’ Hank’