VIDEO: Storms over the Florida Panhandle last night generated 9,000 lightning strikes in 15 minutes

fl-lightningSevere storms continue to wallop the U.S., including in Pensacola, Florida where historic flooding has swamped the region. In Escambia County, officials issued a state of emergency after over 200 mm of rain fell.  Rescue crews scrambled to reach stranded motorists and a search was underway for a missing driver who had called for emergency help Tuesday. An emergency management official asked drivers to stay off the roads for the next 24 hours. MORE

Egypt dig unearths ‘early image of Jesus’ in a mysterious underground tomb

imageofJCHis image has been replicated countless times in churches and artwork, but a team of Spanish archaeologists believe they have found one of the earliest images of Jesus. A mysterious underground room dating from between the sixth and seventh century AD holds an image of a young man with curly hair, who appears to be giving a blessing among other Coptic images. The Catalan experts who discovered the site in the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus think it was the final resting place for a writer and a number of priests. MORE

100 Facts About The Moral Collapse Of America That Are Almost Too Crazy To Believe

100-SignThe collection of facts and statistics that you are about to read is highly controversial.  A lot of people are going to be greatly upset by it.  Why?  Because they don’t like to be confronted with the truth about America.  Most people tend to believe that we can “fix this country” by getting the right politicians into power or by implementing certain economic or social reforms.  But the reality of the matter is that our problems go far deeper than that.  A moral collapse is eating away at the foundations of our society like cancer.  If it continues to go unchecked, it will inevitably destroy America. MORE

Man crushed to death by giant crucifix dedicated to Pope (Omen)

crossfallsNot to mention an eclipse of the Sun coming up on the 29th. The Sun is a reflection of God’s word and is being eclipsed by Heresy in the New Bibles.

Tragedy happens only days before canonization of Pope John Paul II who had crucifix dedicated to him. An Italian man was crushed to death on Thursday by a giant crucifix dedicated to the late Pope John Paul II, just days before the Polish pontiff will be made a saint in a ceremony at the Vatican.

In a bizarre coincidence, the 21-year-old man was reported to have been living in a street named after Pope John XXIII – who will also be canonized in the ceremony on Sunday, in an event that is unprecedented in the 2,000 year history of the Catholic Church. MORE

Papal canonizations a lesson in subtle art of Catholic politics

santosWhen the late Popes John XXIII and John Paul II are declared saints on Sunday, the Vatican ceremony will be both a spiritual event for Roman Catholicism and a lesson in the subtle politics of the world’s largest church. MORE  Historic canonization of two popes brings joy and controversy MORE  Martyrs, miracles and the stuff of making saints VIDEO: MORE

Oregon county puts stop to incinerating aborted babies for electricity: ‘we are outraged’

081003-N-2456S-020SALEM, Oregon, April 24, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Marion County Board of Commissioners announced late Wednesday that they are putting a stop to a waste-to-energy facility’s program that was incinerating aborted babies to produce electricity. The B.C. Catholic’s Steve Weatherbe revealed April 21 that the British Columbia government was sending fetal remains to the Covanta Marion waste-to-energy facility to be burned along with other medical waste. The story made national news after LifeSiteNews reported on the revelation Wednesday afternoon. MORE

VIDEO: Why Two Popes Are Being Canonized

popesxxiiiWhy are Popes John XXIII and John Paul II saints? That was the key question being asked at a briefing in the Vatican’s Press Hall on Tuesday that was attended by the postulators for the two Popes’ sainthood causes. The briefing kicked off a week of events in the Vatican leading up to Sunday’s canonization of Blessed John XXIII and Blessed John Paul II. MORE  VIDEO: MORE

US orange production hit by disease, juice prices soar

orangesA citrus disease spread by a tiny insect has devastated Florida’s orange crop, which is expected to be the worst in nearly 30 years, and sent juice prices soaring on New York markets. The culprit? The gnat-sized Asian citrus psyllid, which is infecting citrus trees across the Sunshine State with huanglongbing, or citrus greening disease, which causes fruit to taste bitter and fall from trees too soon. MORE

Pat Buchanan: God Is On Putin’s Side, While “The West Is Gomorrah”

GodsideAll those prayers from Catholics to convert Russia has actually converted Russia! In his latest paean to Vladimir Putin, Pat Buchanan lauded the Russian president for “planting Russia’s flag firmly on the side of traditional Christianity” with his policies against reproductive choice and LGBT rights – evidence, Buchanan suggested, that God is on Putin’s side in his showdown with the West.

In his April 4 syndicated column, Buchanan heralded Putin as the global leader of a backlash against “a hedonistic secular and social revolution coming out of the West”: MORE