For the first time in New Zealand history, the Governor General met with Pope Francis. During the private audience with Sir Jerry Mateparae the two men spoke of social and economic life in New Zealand as well as the Catholic…

President Jose Eduardo dos Santos of Angola, along with his wife and several members of his government, met with Pope Francis in Rome. During the 20 minute meeting, the two men discussed the “good relations between the Holy See and…

During his meeting with Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations and the UN Board, Pope Francis told the world body leaders they must do more to help the poor and should encourage the “legitimate redistribution” of wealth. The…

President Obama’s political formation was steeped in the Roman Catholic left. At 25 years of age Barack Obama was involved in training Roman Catholics how to be politically engaged. By 1987, after two short years in Chicago as a community…

“Have you ever heard two Jesuits talking to each other?” said one observer. “You have to listen not to what they say, but to what they do not say.” The Financial Times ran an article that described the way in…

The liberal dark ages with including censorship and persecution are here. Don’t expect conservative views to get much traction in the new world of liberal intellectualism. Kirsten Powers, writing in USA Today, described the new era as “an age of…

Expect wild and dangerous weather in late 2014 because of a very big El Niño. Storms, floods and droughts are expected around the Pacific, which will wreak havoc and death. An El Niño is a splurge of warm water in…

San Diego County has a string of dangerous wildfires that have burned homes and displaced tens of thousands of people and shut down schools and amusement parks. At least eight homes, two businesses and an18-unit condominium have been destroyed so…

Honey bees in the United States continue to die off at “a worrisome rate,” said a government report. Crucial to pollination of a quarter of food consumed crops the bees declined by 23 percent during the 2013-2014 winter. That’s actually…

Eric Walsh, Public Health Director for the city of Pasadena, California, and a Seventh-day Adventist pastor, was put on paid administrative leave after homosexual activists’ contacted Pasadena city officials and complained that he had preached a sermon about the Bible’s…

Ethiopia is building a $4.7 billion dam on the Nile called the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Egypt believes that it threatens to dry up Egypt’s great Aswan Dam and drastically reduce Egypt’s electricity supply by 30-40% and irrigation capacity….

Saudi Arabia and Oman have rapidly increased their defense budgets since 2011. But they aren’t the only ones in the Middle East accelerating weapons purchases, according to a new IHS Jane’s Annual Defense Budgets Review. Four out of five countries…