I guess the ladies are going to have to wear shorts under their dresses. Either that or wear long skirt dresses. I thought Texas was a conservative state? MORE

A slowly moving area of thunderstorms brought heavy rain and flash flooding to the Austin, Texas area, beginning early Thursday morning and continuing through the evening. The storms forced multiple water rescues and cut off power to about 7,000 customers, and have been blamed for the death of a Travis County sheriff’s deputy. MORE

A fast-growing cluster of wildfires scorching north-central Washington state’s scenic Methow Valley burned at least two homes Thursday, authorities said. The Carlton Complex of fires covers 28 square miles of the valley near the town of Twisp, and is being pushed by high temperatures and strong winds. MORE

Father Carmine Leuzzi talks of the upcoming Pope Francis visit in the church of Shen Koll (Saint Nicholas) in Derven village, 32 kilometers (20 miles) north of capital Tirana, Thursday Sept. 18, 2014. The one-room, stone church of St. Nicholas, is particularly poignant: MORE

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Cardinal Walter Kasper, a close influence on Pope Francis, says it is up to parents to decide how many children to have ahead of global gathering of Roman Catholic bishops to discuss the family MORE

Holy Mackerel, that’s a lot of moo-la.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. surged in its U.S. trading debut, after the company raised a record-breaking $21.8 billion in an initial public offering.MORE

Same holds true with many of the Traditional Fathers MORE

The internet is on fire over the absolutely epic video below from Sean Gratton showing a homeless man invoking Angels and Yahweh while arguing unsuccessfully with police and being tased repeatedly. Somehow, the tasing (or was it ‘Yahweh’ and the Angels?) gives him super-human strength and he’s able to escape from them, all caught on video. MORE

This is the Cardinal which was on my face book page, Cardinal George

The Vatican on Saturday appointed Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, Wash., to succeed Cardinal Francis George as the leader of the Archdiocese of Chicago. MORE

The concept of teleportation comes primarily from science fiction literature throughout human history, but things are changing. It’s 2014 and developments in quantum theory and general relativity physics have been successful in exploring the concept of teleportation for quite some time now. MORE

Polish and Israeli Holocaust researchers say they have discovered the exact location of the building that housed gas chambers at Sobibor, one of the death camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland.

Israel’s Yad Vashem and the Majdanek State Museum in Poland, which oversees Sobibor, announced the finding Wednesday, calling it an important discovery in the field of Holocaust research. MORE

Have you ever had questions about all of the strange creatures in the Bible? Maybe you never noticed how many were mentioned, or maybe you didn’t know that some of them were strange or even creatures because you didn’t recognize the names. Well, I’m going to break down some of these for you, and if you love what you learn, please share it via email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Thanks in advance and enjoy. MORE

The Orlando Sentinel reported this week how The Satanic Temple wants to give out materials, including The Satanic Children’s Big Book of Activities, in Orange schools. What’s worse, the schools have no choice but to submit.

Ironically, it was because of a previous ruling won by the Atheist and evangelical Christian groups that the Satanic Temple has found a way into schools. MORE

The video shows the three children sobbing as a man standing behind a camera waves a knife and asks: “Whom do we behead first?” “Put your hand here or else I will sever your head,” he tells one of the terrified boys, who are crying throughout the video. MORE