Pope Francis’s hints about a possible opening on the issue of married priests are sowing confusion in the Vatican and among Catholic reformists and conservatives alike. MORE

DIRECTLY BELOW IS A SIMPLE LIST OF COMPANIES THAT FUND PLANNED PARENTHOOD AS OF JAN 2012. IT’S THE MOST CURRENT SIMPLE LIST I COULD FIND ONLINE. HOWEVER, THE BOYCOTT LIST IS AND OFFICIAL  MORE

In recent years, more Americans have been getting tattoos than ever before, but now a new body art trend is spreading across America like wildfire.  3D tattoos can be far more realistic than conventional tattoos, and many are choosing them for their pure shock value.  But how will all of these young people feel about their weird tattoos a decade or two from now?  And what does all of this bizarre body art say about our society?  Is this a good thing or a bad thing? MORE

To put it mildly, scientists around the world are baffled and flocking to a remote region in Russia to investigate why an enormous hole hundreds of feet deep has suddenly appeared in the Yamal Peninsula region of northern Russia by Siberia. To further cause excitement, the name ‘Yamal’ translates out top mean “the end of the world”. MORE

Pope Francis jumped into the US border crisis saying the illegal alien children flooding across our borders should be “welcomed and protected.” MORE

Nowhere in the developed world has there been an increase in aliyah as marked as in France. The Jewish Agency for Israel and Israel’s Ministry of Immigrant Absorption estimate that more than 5,000 French Jews — 1% of the community — will immigrate to Israel in 2014, compared with 3,289 in 2013 and 1,917 in 2012.

Last year, more Jews immigrated to Israel from France than from the United States. MORE

What I’ve been preaching, now for about 45 years. I guess it’s getting too obvious to ignore, thanks to Francis.  In Christ, Joseph MORE

According to the traditions of the Carmelite order, on July 16, 1251, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to St. Simon Stock, a Carmelite. During the vision, she revealed to him the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, popularly known as the “Brown Scapular.” A century and a quarter later, the Carmelite order began to celebrate on this date the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. MORE

When New Hampshire’s largest utility needed to rebuild coal supplies after the past frigid winter, it turned to Russia rather than Appalachia in the U.S. Northeast or Wyoming’s Powder River Basin.

The Doric Victory, a bulk carrier the length of two football fields, transported the fuel almost 4,000 miles (6,436 kilometers) from Riga, Latvia, last month to Public Service of New Hampshire’s Schiller power plant in Portsmouth, a 150-megawatt facility that’s produced electricity since 1952. MORE

UNITED STATES of America – It can now be reported that the Russian Federation and its Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has issued an arrest warrant for noted financial terrorist and Hungarian bank dick, George Soros.

Russian Intelligence has fingered Soros for using cross-collateralized compounded Swedish and Danish foreign currency derivatives for the purpose of an attack on the Russian stock market. MORE

 Is anyone keeping score on how much this administration is taking in on fines so far? hMORE

Tied with Rhode Island for worst in U.S.; Obama pushing infrastructure improvements -Citing a number of reports that paint a dreary picture of the nation’s infrastructure, the Obama administration Monday unveiled a $300 billion plan to improve roads and bridges nationwide.MORE

HAWTHORNE (CBSLA.com) — He’s known as the Catholic saint who watches over immigrants and he continues to bring out the faithful across southern California.

As the immigration battle heats up, the prayers of the faithful are fired up. Ana Magellan and Jorge Cruz drove to St. Joseph’s Church in Hawthorne to touch the chest of a statue of Santo Toribio, the patron saint of border-crossers and the sick. MORE