First there was a website that predicted when your parents would die; now there’s a watch that not only predicts when you will die, it also begins counting down.   Users fill out a questionnaire about their medical history before subtracting their age from the overall results to get their death score. LINK

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John Schlageter, general counsel for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services USA (AMSUSA) said that military priests are facing arrest if they celebrate mass or practice their faith on military bases during the government shutdown.LINK

Record-setting amounts of snowfall blanketed parts of South Dakota Friday while unseasonal tornadoes churned elsewhere in the state and across the Great Plains region, causing millions of dollars in damage. Trees and power lines are down in Lawrence County, S.D., where the town of Lead saw a record-setting 43.5 inches of snow Friday. LINK

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Defendants and witnesses in British courts will no longer swear on the Bible to tell the truth under controversial plans being considered by a powerful body of judges. The traditional religious oath could be scrapped amid concerns that many giving evidence in criminal cases no longer take it seriously. LINK

Thanks to personal genomics companies like 23andMe, it’s becoming quicker and easier for us to find out who we are. But will the same technology one day allow us to decide who our babies will be — before they’re even born? LINK

Beginning now, with the opening of government-run health-insurance exchanges, President Barack Obama will be prohibiting American Catholics from practicing their faith in the way they live their daily lives. LINK

The diocese of Stockton in California may have to declare bankruptcy in face of the significant damages it owes to victims of sexual abuse committed by members of its clergy throughout the 1990s. It would become the 10^th diocese in the US to invoke Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, LINK

The dissident theologian Hans Küng has revealed that he is considering assisted suicide. Küng, who at the age of 85 is suffering from Parkinson’s disease, writes in a forthcoming memoir that he does not “want to live on as a shadow of myself.” Questioning whether he will be able to continue living with dignity, LINK

Photons switch on the body’s processes like an orchestra conductor bringing each individual instrument into the collective sound. At different frequencies, they perform different functions. Popp found that molecules in the cells responded to certain frequencies, and that a range of vibrations from the photons caused a variety of frequencies in other molecules of the body.LINK

Our government is out of control. First, it was the World War II veterans who had to break down barriers to see the open air, un-attended memorial erected in their honor.  A memorial which is on public land but is supported – including the National Park Service fee – with privatefunds. LINK

Japanese doctors explain that, “We know our patients have radiation illness” but we are forced to keep it secret (VIDEO) LINK