Your fact-checks will appear here
Largest Christian Church, made up of 24 autonomous Churches in communion with the Pope, part of the Latin Church aka Latin Christianity aka western Christianity
The claim that the Jewish population “owned a large number of child brothels in Germany 1933” is unsupported by the provided evidence and by the materials reviewed: contemporary scholarship and refere...
Charlie Kirk has been described repeatedly in the reporting as a Christian—most sources label him an evangelical Protestant and note ties to Pentecostal and charismatic churches—though accounts differ...
No pope has abolished confession to priests; every reliable source in the provided set records the Sacrament of Penance as an enduring Catholic practice and identifies no papal act extinguishing priva...
Available reporting ties Erika (sometimes spelled “Erika”/“Erika”) Kirk’s public church connections to Catholic communities (baptism and recent Catholic involvement) and to friendships with evangelica...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church’s biblical canon is substantially larger and differently composed than the Roman Catholic canon: , including the Hebrew protocanon, the Catholic deuterocanonical...
Most available reporting shows strong support for Donald Trump among , but none of the supplied sources document formal, nationwide endorsements by major Christian denominations. Reporting also docume...
Martin Luther excluded certain books—primarily the seven Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament and questioned a few New Testament books—from the core Protestant canon because he prioritized text...
Erika Lane Kirk (née Frantzve) was born November 20, 1988, and was raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, by a single mother; she won Miss Arizona USA in 2012 and later built a career as a faith-forward entre...
The Catholic Church declares a marriage null (an “annulment” or declaration of nullity) when one or more essential requirements for valid marital consent were absent at the time of the wedding; common...
After World War II, multiple South American countries became destinations for Nazi officials fleeing prosecution; , with additional evidence that hosted fugitives through ratlines and supportive netwo...
Freemasonry arose from medieval stonemason guilds and organized as a modern fraternity in the early 18th century; historians note symbolic borrowings from older sources (Hermeticism, Kabbalah, Rosicru...
range from fully affirming—performing s and —to explicitly prohibiting same-sex relationships and related ministries; mainline Protestant bodies such as the and have moved toward full inclusion, while...
Confession (the Sacrament of Penance / Reconciliation) remains a current and required sacrament in Catholic practice: Canon law and the Catechism still oblige Catholics to confess grave (mortal) sins ...
Christian and scholarly sources do not agree that "all of God's angels are men." Most theological treatments say angels are spirit beings without human sex and that masculine language in scripture oft...
Major conspiracy theories linking Freemasons to secret rituals and Satanism trace back to 19th-century hoaxes and sustained religious opposition; the Léo Taxil “Palladism” hoax is singled out as a del...
President Biden regularly attended Mass and other church services during his presidency, with multiple documented public appearances at Holy Trinity in Washington and St. Joseph on the Brandywine in D...
determines whether a prior marriage is valid (i.e., a true sacramental marriage) or null (no binding marriage bond existed from the start) through a called a , usually handled by a following rules in ...
Available reporting shows large absolute numbers of child sexual abuse found in the Catholic Church — for example studies and investigations have documented tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands ...
The Catholic Church teaches that a valid sacramental marriage is a lifelong bond that “ends with death,” and therefore a widow or widower is free to marry again; Church materials and canon-law comment...
The Catholic Church teaches that the Sacrament of Penance (confession or reconciliation) was instituted by Jesus Christ and has been practiced in some form since the apostolic era; Trent and modern Ca...