(CNSNews.com) – Sometime in the next four years the global population of human beings who are 65 and older will surpass those under 5 for the first time, according to a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau.

“For the first time in human history, people aged 65 and older will outnumber children under age 5,” says the report, entitled “An Aging World: 2015.”

“This crossing is just around the corner, before 2020,” says the report. MORE

JERUSALEM — It was a typical day at the shrine around what many believe is the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem’s Old City. A Greek Orthodox choir sang inside a room facing the baroque structure. But the voices were drowned out when chanting Armenian priests and monks circling the shrine raised theirs.

“Sometimes they punch each other,” Farah Atallah, a church guard wearing a fez, observed with a shrug.

Mr. Atallah is a seasoned witness to the rivalries among the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic communities that jealously share — and sometimes spar over — what they consider Christianity’s holiest site, inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. MORE

…is Jesus more than a “Mr. Nice Guy” who showers each of us with mercy? There was an early Christian heresy labeled Marcionism and, like many heresies, it reappears again and again. Marcionism rejected the mean, judgmental God of the Hebrew Scriptures (or “Old Testament”) in favor of the nice loving God of Jesus. In fact, it carried this view to perhaps its logical extreme by rejecting the Old Testament as canonical for Christians and denying that Yahweh was God. I say that the current views about Nice Guy Jesus bear a great deal of similarity to Marcionism because the current views reject any image of Jesus where He, like the God of the Old Testament, is judgmental. MORE

There may be a reason why people have trouble seeing while driving at night, and it’s not their eyesight. A new rating of the headlights of more than 30 midsized car models gave only one model a grade of “good.”

Of the rest, about a third were rated “acceptable,” a third “marginal” and a third “poor.” The difference between the top- and bottom-rated models for a driver’s ability to see down a dark road was substantial, according to the study released Wednesday by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, an industry-funded organization that evaluates automotive safety. MORE

The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has named London, Berlin and Rome as the European cities that could possibly be targeted in its next attack on the continent’s soil, in a propaganda video released on Monday. MORE

Over the past ten years, approximately five million people have moved away from the state of California, and as you will see in this article this mass exodus appears to be accelerating.  So exactly why is this happening? MORE

COMMENT: Liberals moving to a conservative state?

Like Mark Levine says, ‘liberals are like locust, they destroy their own state and then move on to destroy and decimate yet another state.’ ;( Adios the Great State of Texas. Look at the once red states: New Hampshire (now blue), Nevada (purple) and parts of Florida (purple). They were once free red Conservative States.

I predicted 35 years ago, that before this is over, it will be the Sede Vacante Catholics against the world.
Thank God we are in the last few years.

(Vatican Radio) The Press Office of the Holy See on Monday confirmed that Pope Francis met on Saturday, April 2, 2016, with the head of the dissident traditionalist Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (SSPX), Bishop Bernard Fellay.

The confirmation came through a one-sentence communiqué from the Press Office, saying, “The Press Office confirms that Saturday, 2 April, a meeting took place in the Vatican between Pope Francis and Bishop Bernard, Fellay, Superior General of the St. Pius X Fraternity.” MORE

A reproduction of the Temple of Baal is coming to New York’s Times Square next month as a tribute to the 2,000-year-old original structure that was destroyed by ISIS last year in Palmyra, Syria.

The reproductions will be made using a 3-D printer, producing a life-size model of the temple’s entrance. Officials say those models will be installed in both New York City and London’s Trafalgar Square this Spring. MORE

Update 4/4/16
At least 71 people have died in landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy rains in parts of Pakistan, including Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, officials said on Monday.
Scores more were injured in rain-related incidents across northern Pakistan.
Most of the casualties were reported in the northern part of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, which has been hit by the downpour since Friday.
State-run Radio Pakistan put the death toll in rain-related incidents at 71. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa alone recorded 47 deaths, it reported.

Rumors and whispers from inside the Vatican has it that Pope Francis is going to resign in May of 2016

Vol 9 Issue 14 ~ Editor: Rev. Fr. Courtney Edward Krier
April 2, 2016 ~ Easter Saturday

1. Baptism: Means of Salvation (62)
2. Low Sunday
3. St. Agape, Chionia and Irene
4. Christ in the Home (37)
5. Articles and notices

Dear Reader:

This Sunday Catholics look at the divine mercy offered to the sinner. Continue reading →

ROME (RNS) Italy may be the spiritual home of 1.2 billion members of the Catholic Church around the world, but a new poll shows only 50 percent of Italians consider themselves Catholic.

The poll, published in the liberal daily L’Unita on Tuesday (March 29), challenges long-held perceptions that Italy is a ”Catholic” country, despite the popularity of Pope Francis and the historic role of the Vatican City State in the heart of Rome.

In addition to the 50 percent who consider themselves Catholic, the poll, conducted in Italy by research firm SWG, found that 13 percent defined themselves as “Christian.” MORE

Responding to international boycott pressures and other constraints, a growing number of Israeli companies operating in the West Bank are moving their facilities to locations within the country’s internationally recognized borders, according to a report prepared by Gush Shalom, an anti-occupation organization that monitors such activities.
The report, obtained by Haaretz, shows that aside from the recent high-profile cases of Ahava, the Dead Sea skin care product company, and SodaStream, the seltzer-machine manufacturer, other prominent Israeli companies have also been part of this trend, even if they have managed to evade publicity. MORE

The modern homeschooling movement is one of revolt. From its humble beginnings in the ’70s, led by graduates of the hippie generation who saw public schools as too constrained and religious, to its pop-cultural peak in the ’80s and ’90s under conservative Christians who wanted more God and less evolution in the classroom, homeschoolers and their parents have pushed aggressively against mainstream education. MORE

It’s not just ‘a Catholic thing’. Pentecostal churches have long been enthusiastically adding their high-profile branding to the ceremony. And virtually every flavour of religion — be it ancient Assyrian or Hindu — mentions some form of rite to expel oppositional spirits in its holy texts.

But the Catholic International Association of Exorcist’s upped the ante in 2014: Their annual meeting declared occult activity was on the rise. (For the uninitiated, this includes believing in the power of crystals, t’ai chi and yoga — as well as the more traditional Ouija boards, palm-reading and tarot cards.) MORE