Pope Francis cancels Bible to create new book? Fact Check

Rumours claim that Pope Francis plans on “cancelling” the Bible and replacing it with a modern alternative.

The rumours seem to link back to an article on a website called ThereIsNews.com that reads in part –

Pope Francis cancels The Bible and proposes to create a new book
Pope Francis has surprised the world today by announcing that The Bible is totally outdated and needs a radical change, so The Bible is officially canceled and it’s announced a meeting between the highest personalities of the church where it will be decided the book that will replace it, its name and its content. Some names are already being considered and the one that has more strength is “Biblia 2000”.
“We can not keep trying to talk our public in a totally new world with a book that has thousands years. We are losing followers and we have to go a step further in the search for the modernization of the church. to rewrite the word of God, even if it is only the Old Testament, in which there are certain passages that it is better not to repeat. ”
The news has fallen like a bomb among the most conservative, who consider this idea the definitive clue of madness of Pope Francis.

As usual, we ran this article through our fake news checklist.

Check for a disclaimer…

We checked ThereIsNews.com for a legal disclaimer. There was a disclaimer that purported information on the site should not be taken seriously.

The site “There is news” (http://thereisnews.es) (hereinafter referred to as TIN) is a humor site whose purpose is entertainment.
The content of TIN is fiction and does not correspond to reality.

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Check what other stories are on the website…

We checked the homepage on ThereIsNews.com and found the site was full of nonsense stories that appeared very unlikely to be true.
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Check how long the site has been live…

ThereIsNews.com went up towards the end of 2017, so under a year from the time we write this.
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Check the web address…

ThereIsNews.com doesn’t attempt to mimic reputable media outlets.

Google the website…

There is very little information on this site on Google.
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Seek independent confirmation…
We did an Internet search for any stories on Pope Francis cancelling the Bible – something that would naturally be a very big headline. No media outlets have reported on this story.
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Read the article with a skeptical mind…

Is it likely that Pope Francis is really going to cancel the Bible? It seems somewhat far-fetched.

This claim has failed almost every point on our fact checklist. It’s definitely a hoax.