Mexico streets turned bloodier Saturday night when riot police and military turned against thousands of protesters chanting their new Twitter campaign rally cry, “Enough! I’m tired!” that has gone viral, words the attorney general said on national TV Friday night in his closing remarks about the “narco-government” brutal disappearance of 43 students from Iguala, Guerrero. MORE

Funny. I sent Cardinal George my standard Facebook message on the V-2 Council about two months ago.

U.S. Roman Catholic bishops are gathering at a moment of turbulence for them and the American church, as Pope Francis moves toward crafting new policies for carrying out his mission of mercy – a prospect that has conservative Catholics and some bishops in an uproar. MORE

Earlier today a Palestinian man who Israeli police say had connections to Hamas drove a car into a crowd near a light rail station in Jerusalem, killing one person and injuring a dozen others. It followed a strikingly similar attack in the same area two weeks ago that killed a 3-month-old Israeli. In both cases, the driver was killed by police at the scene. MORE

It’s like a Sci-Fi movie — middle aged people are disappearing in the New York/New Jersey area by the dozens.

On Oct. 12th, Katharine Adams, 50, walked out of her West Village home, leaving behind her keys, cellphone and watch. She’s never been seen again, and her mother, Abagail Westlake, says the NYPD missing person’s bureau seems to be missing too, since she can’t get a call back. MORE

This is extremely disturbing that any toy company would put such a thing inside of a child’s toy! And they aren’t taking it off the shelf unless they get ‘more’ complaints! Wait until you see just how evil and unthinkable this is! MORE

“With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon,” Musk said last week at the MIT Aeronautics and Astronautics Department’s 2014 Centennial Symposium. “You know all those stories where there’s the guy with the pentagram and the holy water and he’s like… yeah, he’s sure he can control the demon, [but] it doesn’t work out.”

This has become a recurring theme in Musk’s public comments, and each time he warns of the AI bogeyman it seems even more dire. MORE

Catholic experts say occult activity and the resulting need for exorcisms has reached a critical level.

Just prior to the season of all things supernatural, the International Association of Exorcists (AIE) met for their 12th annual conference in Rome, from Oct. 20-25. MORE

Churches in the immediate vicinity of Life Is Beautiful say the festival can be extremely disruptive. Father Courtney Edward Krier says once the bass starts blaring, it starts to feel like an earthquake, and no one in church can hear him. “Not with the bass, because the bass is obviously going to break up everything,” Krier said. MORE

Forget about life being beautiful. Down at Bob’s Bail Bonds, Becky Simmons will settle for life getting back to normal on the east end of Ogden Avenue.

As officials from the Life is Beautiful music, food and art festival fenced off a substantial section of downtown late last week, longtime local business owners and members of the clergy continued to have run-ins with insensitive security personnel despite assurances to the contrary. MORE

“Spanish priest Fr Pablo d’Ors, a consultant to the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture, yesterday said he was “absolutely” in favour of opening up the priesthood to women.” MORE

Pope Francis on Saturday demoted an outspoken conservative American cardinal who has been highly critical of the pontiff’s reformist leadership of the Roman Catholic Church.

Cardinal Raymond Burke, 66, was removed as head of the Vatican’s highest court and appointed to the ceremonial post of chaplain of the charity group Knights of Malta. MORE

My mother was on it (and successfully quit smoking using it) and she had some outrageous paranoia. She would accuse us of conspiring against her, making her sick, not loving her, lying to her, stealing things (that she misplaced), turning the dog against her, trying to poison her and sabotaging her car…she smoked for 40 years and failed at quitting hundreds of times. Chantix did the trick somehow but made her nuts. MORE

Conservatives and liberals approach almost every issue with completely different philosophies, underlying assumptions, and methods. That’s why it’s so hard to find genuine compromise between conservatism and liberalism — because not only are liberals almost always wrong, their solutions almost always make things worse. MORE