Red and pink streaks have been filling the night sky across America — spotted even in the Deep South. Does it mean that doomsday preacher Harold Camping’s often-predicted end of the world is here? Well, actually, there was an event in space that  could have been catastrophic. It seems Earth was hit by a “coronal mass…

Jerzy Bielecki, a Polish resistance fighter who in 1944 helped his Jewish girlfriend escape the Auschwitz death camp, has died at the age of 90. At the camp, as a Catholic, he was able to join the camp’s cadre, volunteers who helped with chores. Taking advantage of his access to storerooms, he spent several months piecing together an SS uniform,…

London’s historic St. Paul’s Cathedral, which survived Hitler’s blitz and the assassination of Thomas à Becket, has been forced to close its doors due to the “Occupy London Stock Exchange” protests.  The dean of the cathedral, the Right Reverend Graeme Knowles, is “now publicly regretting the leniency,” he extended to the protesters, reports Charles C.W. Cooke…

Jewish access to their most holy site, Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, may be cut off after the city’s engineer, Shlomo Eshkol, ruled the temporary Mughrabi Bridge has become unsafe — and the Muslim fraternity that oversees the sensitive area forbade any repairs. The covered ramp leads from the base of the Mount at the Western Wall — the…

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