The Bundeswehr must undertake operations in Mali “so that people will no longer have to flee the violence and hopelessness,” claimed German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen during a speech in Mali. Von der Leyen is using Germany’s influx…

During his weekly Wednesday general audience, August 12, Pope Francis again promoted the idea that Sunday is the day of rest in contradiction to scripture. “The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at…

Pope Francis will use the same lectern that Abraham Lincoln used to deliver the Gettysburg Address to deliver his speech on immigration and religious liberty at the end of September when he visits Philadelphia for the World Meeting of Families….

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…