Franklin Graham, the son of Billy Graham told "Meet the Press" that being gay is a sin in the eyes of God, and that he does not plan to soften his position. He said the Pope is right that he is not the judge. God is.

“God would have to shift — and God doesn’t. “God’s word is the same, yesterday and today and a million years from now. It's a sin. I know the consequences of what will happen one day when they stand before God.”

According to the article Pope Francis had convened a Third Vatican Council (not true) and gave a shocking speech that atheism and all religions are acceptable, that truth is relative, and hell is not real (none of this is true). The piece is carefully-worded satire that fooled tens of thousands of people.

In this section of Prophecy Central you will find some disturbing news about the new Pope, but we will do our best not to post false information. We are grateful to another blog, The Wardrobe Door, for setting the record straight on this particular issue.

"Rarely has a new player on the world stage captured so much attention so quickly - young and old, faithful and cynical."

Pope Francis is already tackling major reforms and leading discussions about the central conversations of our time including wealth and poverty, globalization, and the nature of marriage.

This article says that this publication "echoed the missionary zeal more often heard from the evangelical Protestants who have won over many disaffected Catholics in the pope's native Latin America."

Forbes ranks him immediately after the Presidents of Russia, the USA and China. It is a most extraordinary result for this humble leader of the Catholic Church who has never in his life sought position, power or status.

Fellay tied his remarks to the "Third Secret of Fatima," a vision supposedly given to a poor child in Potugal in 1917. She later said that she thought the vision predicted the events of the Apocalypse, from Revelation chapters 8 through 13.

The reform aims to bring about a "much less Roman and more widely representative way of governing of the Universal Church."

...hot topics like abortion and gay marriage, and women in church leadership. While Francis addresses these controversial issues head on, they are not the full substance of the wide-ranging interview.

"The question for those who do not believe in God is to follow their own conscience. Sin, even for a non-believer, is when one goes against one's conscience. . . [the] mercy of God has no limits."

His deep concern for the poor, his refusal to live in palatial luxury, and nine other complaints are being circulated. Most dramatically, he has had damaging records about the Vatican's banking scandal seized, and is unwilling to let pedophiles hide as refugees in the Vatican.

Increasingly, harsh criticism of Francis is being whispered in Rome and suggested in various posts on social networking websites as radical conservative sectors within the church voice dissatisfaction.

While in Brazil, the Pope had participated in a world Catholic youth festival on Rio de Janeiro's famed Copacabana beach. Organizers estimated that it attracted some 3 million people.

Christianity is growing in Africa, South America, Asia and Oceania (Australia and surrounding nations).

Christianity is declining in Europe and North America, mostly through people abandoning religion for atheism or agnosticism and from the birth rate not keeping up with the death rate.

The Sacred Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican court that rules on the forgiveness of sins, has said that indulgences may be given to those who follow the “rites and pious exercises” of the event on television, radio and through social media.

Some of the prophecies have had striking fulfillments, while others are debatable. The book and the DVD explore the pros and cons of the theory and what it could mean to us today.

A Turkish television show featured prominent Muslim and Jewish leaders agreeing on the coming end times . . . and the possibility that the religions’ expected messiahs – the Mahdi for Muslims and King Messiah for the Jews – are one and the same.

According to world hunger statistics, 33 percent of the earth's population is considered to be starving. Close to 1.5 million children die from hunger every year, and as many as 98 percent of people who live in developing countries do not have enough to eat.

"I pray that the nearness of our two inaugurations may serve the reconciliation of the world and the Church," the Archbishop of Canterbury said.

"Even them, everyone," the pope explained on Vatican Radio. "We all have the duty to do good . . . Just do good, and we'll find a meeting point."

Previous popes tried to silence the Brazilian leftist, but Boff says the former Argentine cardinal who became pope last month has both the vigor and tenderness to create a new spiritual world.

Indeed, the new pope "would likely be considered too liberal for a prime time speaking slot at the 2016 [Democratic] convention," Charles Camosy, a theologian at Fordham University in New York, wrote in a Washington Post column titled "Republicans have a Pope Francis problem."

“You know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals went almost to the end of the world to get him. But here we are.”

Whether or not one takes the Malachy prophecies seriously, Salbuchi explains that Francis is the first Jesuit to become Pope, and what that might mean.

The Jesuits have played a key role in the history of the church. For centuries, they have served as its leading missionaries, founded its most prestigious universities and committed themselves to alleviating the deepest poverty.

His words appeared designed to answer concerns that the presence of a former pontiff might lead to confusion or competing loyalties once the new pope is installed.

"Strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me."

Those "hotbeds" also grew out of "the prevalence of a selfish and individualistic mindset which also finds expression in an unregulated financial capitalism", as well as "various forms of terrorism and crime", he said.