The world is witnessing more and more natural events that should make every sensible person pause. Earthquakes, floods, violent thunderstorms, destructive winds, extreme heat, wildfires, droughts, powerful storms, and other calamities occurring across different parts of the earth.
Shocking video shows a car falling off an overpass in Sacramento on February 17th. Driver in critical condition. Thankfully, no one else was hurt in the accident. Watch:
Driver Critically Injured After Car Falls From Overpass in Sacramento
On Monday, February 17, 2025, around 12:52 p.m., a car veered off the West El Camino Avenue overpass in Sacramento, California, and plunged onto the northbound lanes of Interstate 5. The Sacramento Police… pic.twitter.com/mLtFc6UgVa
**Tragic Incident:** During a regional soccer match in Chilca, Peru, lightning struck, instantly killing 39-year-old Jose Hugo de la Cruz Meza and injuring five players. Goalkeeper Juan Chocca Llacta, 40, was hit directly and suffered severe burns, requiring immediate medical… pic.twitter.com/Nulhfo2a16
Pope Francis said this week he believes in hell but likes to think of it as “empty” because of God’s great mercy.” according to news headline on January 16, 2024. He continues by saying that, “What I will say is not a dogma of faith but something personal,” the pontiff said Sunday evening on the Italian television program Che Tempo Che Fa. “I like to think of hell as empty; I hope it is,” he told the show’s host, Fabio Fazio.
The “Pro-LGBT Catholics like Jesuit Father James Martin have lauded the Vatican’s allowance of blessings for gay couples as “a huge step forward.” according to news headline on December 19, 2023.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Roman Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church. “Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an interview Tuesday with the Associated Press. Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops in some parts of the world support laws that criminalize homosexuality or discriminate against LGBTQ people, and he himself referred to the issue in terms of “sin.” But he attributed such attitudes to cultural backgrounds, and said bishops in particular need to undergo a process of change to recognize the dignity of everyone. “These bishops have to have a process of conversion,” he said, adding that they should apply “tenderness, please, as God has for each one of us.” Francis’ comments, which were hailed by gay rights advocates as a milestone, are the first uttered by a pope about such laws. But they are also consistent with his overall approach to LGBTQ people and belief that the Catholic Church should welcome everyone and not discriminate.
Lust is not the worst of the seven deadly sins, according to Pope Francis. The leader of the Catholic Church has come out saying there are worse indiscretions than having sex outside of marriage, in an interview with reporters while en route from Greece to Italy. “Sins of the flesh are not the most serious,” the 84-year-old religious leader said regarding sex outside of marriage. Top transgressions instead include pride and hatred, according to Reuters. Francis’ rankings of the worst wrongdoings followed the resignation of a Paris archbishop, who quit over a relationship with a woman earlier this month.” – SOURCE
“We call on everyone, whatever their belief or world view, to endeavor to listen to the cry of the earth and of people who are poor, examining their behavior and pledging meaningful sacrifices for the sake of the earth which God has given us,” said Francis, Archbishop Justin Welby of the Anglican Communion and Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I“ – Source “The extreme weather and natural disasters of recent months reveal afresh to us with great force and at great human cost that climate change is not only a future challenge, but an immediate and urgent matter of survival,” they said.” – Source