Only a couple of families have taken advantage of a new service available at a Saginaw funeral home.
Drive-thru viewings. Paradise Funeral Chapel recently started offering the option, which allows mourners to pay their last respects on the go. It was designed in part to cater to those with physical limitations. MORE
Treibball (pronounced Tri-ball) – is the new canine sport of urban ball herding.
In Treibball the dog must herd and drive 8 large Pilates-type exercise balls into a soccer goal. Treibball is for all types and breeds of dogs over eight months old. Call for a free evaluation for your dog. MORE
Pope Francis has for the first time allowed the Sistine Chapel to be rented out for a private corporate event, with the proceeds to go to charities working with the poor and homeless.
The concert, to be performed amid the splendour of Michelangelo’s frescoes on Saturday, will be attended by a select group of about 40 high-paying tourists who have signed up to an exclusive tour of Italy organised by Porsche. MORE
Slow fireball emerged from the Southwest. Between typhoons, earthquakes, nuclear radiation and volcanoes; meteorites are now terrorizing the Nation of Japan. Such a small island yet successful and high-tech people but signs in the skies and natural chastisements are a wake-up call from the Creator. Japan is well known for their suicides, sexual promiscuity, incest, robots, their gods AKA demons that it has the One and only True God on it’s radar. Wake-up Japan, you’re sinking fast. MORE
In response to public condemnation over attempts to intimidate and silence Christian opponents of the city’s pro-homosexual “Equal Rights” ordinance, Houston’s lesbian mayor, Annise Parker, has backpedaled on demands by city attorneys that area pastors seeking a referendum on the ordinance turn over their sermons and other communications. MORE
For some reason, Zenit removed the text of the interview by Walter Kasper, filled with Anti-African, xenophobic, and racist comments. The interviewer, Edward Pentin, made public the following statement: MORE
For the first time since 1992, Hawaiians are preparing for the possibility of two tropical systems making landfall in one season.
First, it was Iselle, which made landfall on the Big Island back in August. Now, Tropical Storm Ana is approaching the state, threatening to become a hurricane and ready to cause disruptions for residents even if it remains a tropical storm. MORE
The Polar Vortex Part II is getting ready to roll back into town.
Leading meteorologists are warning the Mid-Atlantic is in for a repeat of last winter, which was noted as the 34th coldest such period for the contiguous 48 states as a whole since modern records began in 1895, according to weather.com. MORE
Liberals increasingly want to enforce a comprehensive, uniformly secular vision of the human good. And they see alternative visions of the good as increasingly intolerable. Liberalism seems to have an irrational animus against Christianity. Consider these two stories highlighted in the last week by conservative Christian blogger Rod Dreher. MORE
Now this guy has Class
The interim president of Kentucky State University has chosen to show financial compassion for the University’s lowest paid workers by decreasing his salary by nearly $90,000.
Raymond Burse’s pay cut will contribute to a wage increase for over 24 employees at KSU, some of whom were earning the federal minimum of $7.25 per hour. The workers will now earn $10.25 per hour. MORE
Shocking video footage shows the moment a kidnapped girl is dragged screaming and crying to the home of her future husband.
The disturbing video, titled Stealing the Bride, was shot in Kazakhstan – where bride kidnapping is an ancient custom that accounts for nearly half of all marriages in some parts of the central Asian state. MORE
The city of Houston has issued subpoenas demanding a group of pastors turn over any sermons dealing with homosexuality, gender identity or Annise Parker, the city’s first openly lesbian mayor. And those ministers who fail to comply could be held in contempt of court. MORE
The numbers say it all. In 1966 there were 181,421 Catholic sisters in this country. Today? Less than 50,000. That’s a nearly 73 percent decline. The stats and the math, courtesy of the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University, also debunks the common claim that more traditional orders — those more likely to wear the full habit — are drawing more members than the more liberal, socially active orders. David Gibson has the story. RNS 10-14-14
The Supreme Court seems determined to bring marriage equality to the United States as slowly as possible. If they move too slowly, however, the forces of discrimination may be smiling in a few years. MORE
English-language digital publication of jihadist group says raping and sexual enslaving non-Muslim women is simply part of Islam.
“One should remember that enslaving the families of the kuffar – the infidels – and taking their women as concubines is a firmly established aspect of the Shariah, or Islamic law,” wrote ISIS in the article, reports CNN. MORE