For years, they have been invisible and often afraid to identify themselves. But the women sometimes dubbed “God’s rivals”  are no longer willing to remain silent.

Twenty-six Italian women who are married to or in relationships with Catholic priests want clerical celibacy to be overturned by the world’s bishops when they meet in Rome for their global synod on the family in October. MORE

With a sound likened to thunder, Mount Ontake erupted shortly before noon, spewing large white plumes of ash high into the sky and sending people on the mountainside fleeing, covering some in ash.

More than 250 people were trapped on the mountain and a nearby peak in areas that were dangerous to approach, though some had decided to try making their way down as sunset approached, said Nagano prefecture crisis management official Minoru Kashiwabara. MORE

A man sporting two rows of horns implanted into his forehead and a ’666′ tattoo has been convicted of murdering three men and chopping up their bodies today.
Caius Veiovis screamed at the Springfield jury that convicted him Friday, saying: ‘I’ll see you all in hell every f****** one of you. I’ll see you all in hell.’

They had considered his case for the past week in Massachusetts. MORE

From a spiritual perspective, decapitation of the Godhead and his tri-une reflective image on earth has been a consistent demonically inspired strategy throughout human history. By corrupting and breaking up the relationship and its underlying written principles between man and his creator, subsequently targeting Godly institutions such as holy matrimony, family structure, churches and government, the predominant corner stones of society have become increasingly weakened and ultimately scattered. MORE

The Rt Rev Kieran Conry, whose diocese covers Sussex and Surrey, said he had been “unfaithful” to his promises as a Catholic priest.

He said his actions “were not illegal and did not involve minors”. MORE

Measured anywhere in world outside Japan — #1 out of more than 1,500 test results — Total radioactive iodine was up to 500% of amount reported – According to remarks included with CTBTO data recently released by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, the total iodine-131 in the air was up to 500% of the amount shown. MORE

SOLUTION: Prayer is Stronger than the Atom Bomb MORE

You’re still throwing out used tea bags? I can assure you that after reading this you will not throw away a single used tea bag again.

Most of us know the healing properties of tea, but not many know that previously used tea bags can be useful in many different ways. MORE

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday sent doctors an alert about the polio-like cases and said the germ — enterovirus 68 — was detected in four out of eight of the sick children who had a certain medical test. The status of the ninth case is unclear. MORE

Walkers at the top of a Japanese volcano were forced to run for their lives after it started to erupt without warning yesterday, sending a cloud of ash and rock streaming down the mountainside.

Within seconds, the cloud covered an area more than two miles wide from the summit of Mount Ontake with witnesses claiming that visibility was reduced to zero. MORE

An elderly husband and wife have announced their plans to die in the world’s first ‘couple’ euthanasia – despite neither of them being terminally ill.

Instead the pair fear loneliness if the other one dies first from natural causes. MORE

A witness said she was behaving erratically and began removing her clothes.

“She was jumping like crazy. And then she made a mess inside the liquor store. And that’s why the security guard had to do what he had to do, and grab her and handcuff her,” Joseph Castellan said.

Moments later, she died. MORE

“L.A. seems to be a place where a guy can say he’s a ‘life-coach-channeller-masseur’,” Cusack told The Guardian. “It just seems to be ripe with all these frontier crazies. People are looking to turn their pain into beautiful art, but they also want to be famous. And there’s so much money — so of course all the predators come in.” MORE

More than 600 small earthquakes have rattled the Mammoth Lakes region in less than 36 hours as ripple effects continued across one of the most seismically active volcanic regions in California, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The swarm of quakes — ranging from magnitude 1.0 to 3.8 — began just before 5 a.m. Thursday, according to the USGS. MORE

Oklahoma beheading suspect Alton Alexander Nolen calls himself “Jah’Keem Yisrael” on his Facebook page, where he uploaded photos of himself reading the Koran and wearing Muslim religious clothing. MORE

The so-called “Human Rights Campaign” (HRC), the wealthiest and most powerful homosexual and transgender activist organization in the US, has begun a major effort to demonize and personally attack the pro-family leaders whom they see as the major American impediments to the homosexual-transgender agenda in foreign countries. MORE