Pope Francis has been on a week-long tour in Canada since Monday, apologizing for the Catholic Church’s role in the “deplorable evil” of Canada’s residential schools. “I am deeply sorry,” the Pope said to a crowd of indigenous observers on Monday. More than 150,000 indigenous children were enrolled in Christian schools in Canada from the…
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) spoke at the Victory Dinner in Hollywood, Florida for Florida’s Sunshine Summit this past Saturday. During the dinner, where media access was invite only, DeSantis invoked Ephesians 6:10-18 as he encouraged Republicans to retake the House and Senate after this November’s midterm elections. “You got to be ready for battle,… 
University of Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh didn’t mince words this past weekend when he made his stance against abortion clear. “I believe in having the courage to let the unborn be born,” he said during his keynote address at a “Right to Life” event in Plymouth on Sunday, according to the Detroit Catholic. “I love… 
“The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork,” says Psalm 19:1. Those words rang particularly true as NASA revealed the first images from its newest space telescope on Monday. A Tweet from NASA read, “Better together. International collaboration gave us the most powerful space telescope ever made, and the deepest… 
Mr. T, born Laurence Tureaud, shared a patriotic message for his Twitter followers this past Independence Day. “Happy Birthday America and Happy Independence Day!” the Tweet started. “I am so very grateful to be a citizen of the United States of America, Thank God,” he added in a follow-up Tweet. His final Tweet admonished his… 
Heartbreak and questions abound as more details come to light about the time between police arriving at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde and the neutralizing of the shooter. During a Texas Senate hearing Tuesday, Col. Steven McCraw, the director of the state Department of Public Safety (DPS), revealed that an Uvalde officer, Ruben Ruiz, was… 
Actress Candace Cameron Bure was filled with emotion when she encouraged her fans to help push back against the current “state of the world.” In an Instagram video to her 5.5 million followers, Bure said, “Do you ever scroll through Instagram and just get sad at the state of the world? That’s me right now.”… 
After the mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas, Academy Award-winning actor Matthew McConaughey made an appearance at the White House press briefing last Tuesday after visiting Capitol Hill and meeting briefly in private with President Joe Biden. In a passionate 22-minute speech, McConaughey, a gun owner, called upon a gridlocked Congress to… 
The mother of NBA superstar Steph Curry reveals she nearly aborted her son but God intervened. Sonja Curry details in her new book how she scheduled an abortion when she was pregnant with Steph but ultimately decided to cancel the appointment. She credits God for intervening after another unplanned pregnancy. “God had a plan for… 
During a recent study on the universe’s expansion rate, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, or NASA, found that “something weird” is happening in outer space. In a statement, NASA said, “The cause of this discrepancy remains a mystery. But Hubble data, encompassing a variety of cosmic objects that serve as distance markers, support the… search this blog
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