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Peter George Popoff (born July 2, 1946) is a German-born American televangelist, charlatan, [1] debunked clairvoyant, and faith healer.He was exposed in 1986 by James Randi for using a concealed earpiece to receive radio messages from his wife, who gave him the names, addresses, and ailments of audience members during Popoff-led religious services.
In 1988, Earl Hautala in a review [3] wrote "Randi applies the scalpel of science to expose the ills of faith healing to the light." He ends his review with: "An eye opener for the naïve, this book provides a crash course in the methods of skeptical inquiry." In the New Scientist, Roy Herbert praised the book in a 1990 review. [4]
Catholic theologian Ludwig Ott considers that immediately revealed truths hold the "highest degree of certainty". "The belief due to them is based on the authority of God Revealing (fides divina), and if the Church, through its teaching, vouches for the fact that a truth is contained in Revelation, one's certainty is then also based on the authority of the Infallible Teaching Authority of the ...
After Luther's 'Ninety-five Theses' indulgences have become synonymous to corruption in the Catholic Church. [ 12 ] The leaders of Greater Ministries International --Haywood Eudon Hall, Betty Payne, Gerald Payne, Patrick Talbert, and David Whitfield-- were found guilty of running a financial scheme that scammed thousands of their church goers ...
The Catechism maintains that Christ promised that the Holy Spirit would lead the church into every truth, [21] and that therefore God leads the church into a deeper understanding of the original deposit of faith. The magisterium of the Catholic Church, therefore, carefully examines private revelations, to assure that they are in accord with ...
Incredible stories of heroism, heartache, survival and triumph have been shared by survivors, family members and service personnel who were personally affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the ...
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The fact that these doctrines may not be proposed as formally revealed, insofar as they add to the data of faith elements that are not revealed or which are not yet expressly recognized as such, in no way diminishes their definitive character, which is required at least by their intrinsic connection with revealed truth. Moreover, it cannot be ...