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Noumenal News is the most comprehensive news source on the net for all things paranormal, esoteric, occult, or just plain weird. Every day Che scours the net to bring you the latest stories on the subjects that interest you, from UFOs to bigfoot, from stonehenge to witchcraft, you'll find it here on the Noumenal News. This site is updated daily.

It ain’t you, babe, said the Pope to his predecessor

Posted by Che

POPE Benedict XVI tried to prevent his predecessor, John Paul II, from attending a Bob Dylan concert.
The hardline pontiff makes the confession himself in a book due out next week.

Dylan’s booking for the 1997 church-arranged event raised eyebrows at the Vatican, given his history of drug abuse.
Pope Benedict, who has labelled rock […]

Ritual, magic and witchcraft in old Australian houses and buildings

Witchcraft and magic were alive and well in Australia’s colonial days,
if the findings of respected author and historian Ian Evans are
anything to go by.
Mr Evans will reveal all when he talks next Wednesday at the Queensland
Museum about his research into this previously unknown “underworld” in
colonial Australia.
Spells and witchcraft are commonplace in the history of many […]

Scent Activates Memory During Sleep, Study Says

Scientists studying how sleep affects memory have found that the
whiff of a familiar scent can help a slumbering brain better remember
things that it learned the evening before. A rose bouquet — delivered
to people’s nostrils as they studied and, later, as they slept —
improved their performance on a memory test by almost 15 percent.
The
new study, […]

Ex-Teacher, Suing L.I. School District, Says She Was Accused of Witchcraft

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y., March 7 — Taking the stand in United States
District Court here on Wednesday, Lauren Berrios — with a stylish white
blouse, black slacks, coiffed hair, no pointy black hat — hardly looked
like a witch.
But Ms. Berrios, a former reading teacher at
Hampton Bays Elementary School, said the public […]

Americans get an ‘F’ in religion

Sometimes dumb sounds cute: Sixty percent of Americans can’t name five of the Ten Commandments, and 50% of high school seniors think Sodom and Gomorrah were married.
Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, isn’t laughing. Americans’ deep ignorance of world religions — their own, their neighbors’ or the combatants in Iraq, […]

Early Christianity’s Martyrdom Debate

Princeton University’s Elaine Pagels is about the nearest thing there is to a superstar in the realm of Christian history scholarship. It is largely through her work that many understand the early non-Orthodox Christianity that she at one point dubbed (and later un-dubbed, finding the term imprecise) the Gnostic Gospels. She breaks new ground with […]

Venus has longtime association with love

Now that the moon has vanished in the east, the brilliant white planet
Venus has become the brightest object in the evening sky. Look about 20
degrees above the western horizon at 7 tonight to find it.
It is now about 126 million miles from Earth and is getting closer and becoming brighter every day.
Because
of its prominence in […]

Sainthood of Liverpool priest rests on miracle

A possible change in the Vatican’s stringent rules on declaring
miracles could lead to the canonisation of a Liverpool priest,
according to the postulator for the sainthood of Fr Ignatius Spencer.
Following
the conclusion of a 12-year investigation process by a metropolitan
tribunal in the Archdiocese of Liverpool, papers have now been sent to
the head of the Vatican’s Congregation for […]

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