Did you know that Puerto Rico failed to make a $58 million debt payment, which significantly escalates its debt crisis? It’s true. And it just happened. The legislature did not appropriate the funds because it doesn’t have them. Since Puerto…

Jerry Brown was once a seminary student at a Jesuit University. Now as Governor of California, he is resonating with Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical Laudato Si. Under the pope’s influence, Brown says, “What’s unacceptable becomes acceptable.” Brown is now assisting…

The California state Senate approved a resolution praising Pope Francis’ climate encyclical and calling for politicians to get behind stewardship of the environment. The resolution was adopted before the two-day Vatican meeting July 21 and 22 with 60 city mayors…

by Jozef Daniel Astley Have you ever wondered why climate change has become such a major theme since the beginning of Pope Francis’ pontificate in 2013? The issue behind the issue is little known and understood. The Roman Pontiff and…

U.S. President Barack Obama recently visited his ancestral home in Kenya. During a joint press conference with the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta he challenged the Kenyan president on the issue of gay rights. “When you start treating people differently,” Mr….

The mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, says Pope Francis is, “the strongest moral voice in the world today,” and says he is calling the world’s leading political forces to action. De Blasio made the statement during an…

The State of Kentucky has established a policy requiring pastors who volunteer in its prison system to sign a statement agreeing not to tell inmates that homosexuality was “sinful.” Pastor David Wells an ordained Baptist minister, who had served as…

Sixty city mayors from around the world were invited to attend a two-day conference on the climate change. They gathered to announce new measures to fight global warming and bask in Pope Francis’ ecological star power. Climate change is real,…

Seismologists are saying that Washington, Oregon and California are overdue for “the Big One.” They are referring to a major earthquake that will devastate the now densely populated coastal areas of the U.S. West Coast. The length of time roughly…

Kentucky’s Rowan County Clerk, Kim Davis, made the decision not to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples based on her religious convictions. She prayed and fasted over her decision. Davis believes in the Constitution and that the first amendment gives…

The pope has apparently put himself up against the 2nd amendment of the U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights as well as gun manufacturers and owners. During a rally of young people in Turin, he put aside his prepared text and…

Pope Francis is a radical. And he’s potent. He is so radical that he says and does things that are very surprising to many. He says them in such a positive way that millions are charmed by his style, especially…