Saturday, September 29, 2012

Vatican Says Papyrus Mentioning Jesus' Wife is 'Fake'

The Vatican is speaking out on the discovery of a fragment of papyrus containing a reference to Jesus' "wife" in Coptic. Its blunt verdict? Don't get so excited everyone, it's not real. Naomi O'Leary of : "Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery." It continued:??"In any case, it's a fake."?

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Soon after the announcement by Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King,? about the authenticity of what was dubbed "The Gospel of Jesus' Wife." The fourth century fragment contains the phrase "Jesus said to them, 'My wife ...'"?Laurie Goodstein wrote in her piece , that debates over Jesus' wife and women in the ministry are particularly relevant to the Roman Catholic Church "where despite calls for change, the Vatican has reiterated the teaching that the priesthood cannot be opened to women and married men because of the model set by Jesus."?When news of the discovery? .

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-says-papyrus-mentioning-jesus-wife-fake-140202779.html

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