... telling us. The basic understanding of why she received the stigmata was because she received Father Alameida's rosary after his death, and that he needed a messenger-body to relay his translation of the Gospel of Thomas to the world. This message wasn't what the Catholic Church is today. I liked that they chose a women who wasn't particularly interested with institutional religion. I believe ... ...

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... so by scripture he would not "since it is neither safe nor right to go against conscience." Perhaps Martin Luther's greatest attribution to the development of modern religion was his translation of the bible from Latin to German. This allowed nearly everyone the ability to read the bible for themselves and make there own conclusions on what the literary work meant ... ...

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