The story of the British Museum station is unique among London’s haunted Underground sites, not least because the station itself has been closed since 1933. Yet its legend persists, fuelled by its connection to the nearby British Museum and the ancient mysteries housed within its walls. The haunting of British Museum station is a tale […]

Bethnal Green Underground Station, located in the East End of London, is more than just a stop on the Central Line—it is a site steeped in wartime tragedy and enduring mystery. Unlike many other allegedly haunted stations on the London Underground, Bethnal Green’s reputation for paranormal activity is not rooted in folklore or urban legend, […]

Pete Rose, also known as Charlie Hustle, died on October 2, 2024. Rose, MLB’s all-time hits leader who was banned from baseball in 1989 for gambling on Cincinnati Reds games while he served as manager, died at 83. Rose died of hypertension and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. Hypertension, commonly known as high blood pressure, forces the heart […] The post Pete Rose Reached Heights No Other Player Achieved appeared first on www.independentsentinel.com.

There’s a reason we fall in love with Disney princes. While they each have their own unique personalities, they all share very important traits. For example, they all tend to be caring and loving. In other words, there are so many ways to be a real life Disney prince. That said, some people possess both the personality and looks of a classic Disney prince, something a number of husbands on social media are proving in this fun trend. This trend involves people trying to figure out which Disney prince their husband most resemble. While most of them aren’t 1:1 comparisons, there are a few that will have you doing a double take. Sammy C is one of those people. When she found out her husband resembles John Smith from Disney’s Pocahontas, she was totally floored! See these two guys back to back in the video below. @sammy.in.miami The resemblance is uncanny #disneyprince #lookalike #thatsmyhusband ♬ Beauty and the Beast (from "Beauty and the Beast") [Instrumental Orchestral Version] – Magic Philharmonic Orchestra “That’s some humble brag about your real life prince,” someone jokes in reply to Sammy’s viral video, another person hilariously adding, “That’s not a Disney prince, that’s the 4th Hemsworth brother.” Similarly, someone else said, “That’s not a Disney prince that’s Thor.” Social Media Trend Has Spouses Sharing Which Disney Prince Their Husband Most Resembles Sammy isn’t the only one whose husband who has an uncanny resemblance to a Disney prince. Niki’s husband, Gabe, looks an awful lot like Prince Naveen from The Princess and the Frog. See for yourself below! @gabeandniki Very accurate #disneyprince #lookalike #thatsmyhusband #gabeandniki ♬ Beauty and the Beast (from "Beauty and the Beast") [Instrumental Orchestral Version] – Magic Philharmonic Orchestra “Very accurate,” Niki captions her post. Then there is Sav. Let’s just say that her take on this fun trend is different than most. Because of that, however, many more people are able to relate to this lighthearted trend. @savbjo Not too far off! #disney #aladdin #prince #husband #fyp #foryou ♬ Old Disney Swing Jazz – Nico “Oooh our husbands could be twins!” someone jokes in the comments, another clever person adding, “He must be off on a magic carpet ride.” You can find the source of this story’s featured image here! The post Woman Delighted To Discover Her Husband Is Her Perfect Disney Prince appeared first on InspireMore.

Left-wing California strikes again

A little Welsh boy has drawn 99 animals to celebrate Sir David Attenborough’s 99th Birthday which just passed this week. Spanning across eight A3 sheets of paper, the giant birthday card took Max Evans-Browning 4 days and a lot of research to find each and every animal Attenborough has ever expressed a fondness for. Max’s […] The post Boy Draws 99 Animals for David Attenborough’s 99th Birthday appeared first on Good News Network.

The quick election of a pope born and raised in the United States was a shock to almost everyone outside the Sistine Chapel in Rome. Conclaves begin with secular and Catholic experts making a list of possible front-runners, and no one had Robert Prevost on their bingo card.   For Americans, it was shocking and a bit exhilarating. We were always told that a global church would not want a leader from the planet’s biggest superpower. But Cardinal Prevost had served so long in Peru and in Rome that he didn’t seem as American as others might be.  Our secular news media only seem to view the church as a political force and consider how it affects their world. Right now, popes are considered good when they oppose (and hopefully shame) President Donald Trump on poverty and immigration, and popes are bad when they oppose abortion and the invention of 57 genders.  It’s become obvious that our media deeply desire for Pope Leo to function as a staunch opponent of this president, when everyone knows a pope making any objection to “devout Catholic” President Joe Biden would have been considered rude and unnecessary.   But this Holy Father is the patriarch of a global church, not a speaker of the House. The most important matters to Catholics are the church matters, spreading the gospel of Jesus in the modern world while protecting an ancient deposit of faith. What seems irrelevant to outsiders, like the rumblings over the Traditional Latin Mass, are more internally important than unbelievers pushing the church on whether priests can be women or married men.   The secular scolds never seem to accept the argument that anyone who wants a married priest or a female priest can join the Episcopalians. There are 31 flavors of Protestantism, but the scolds want to force every church into their “progressive” mold.   Secular liberals also confuse the Christian obligation to care for the poor and the marginalized—like migrants—with their policy positions. Caring for the poor with private charity isn’t satisfactory. You prove your love of the poor by voting for socialists. You prove your respect for the migrant by opening the border like the Democrats.   Maybe secular journalists could fear the prospect that an American-born pope could invigorate the American church, inspiring young people and bringing in the sheep that have strayed. The media often fear growing religiosity as a threat and caricature it as a theocratic “Christian nationalism” whenever the libertine left loses, like the repeal of Roe v. Wade.   In his opening remarks to journalists, the pope had a request: “Let us disarm communication of all prejudice and resentment, fanaticism and even hatred; let us free it from aggression. We do not need loud, forceful communication but rather communication that is capable of listening.”  This is unsurprising from a religious leader, but many of us function in a media environment that is aggressively ideological and dismissive of listening to an opposing view. This is not just a test for the media but for the media’s audience.   Entering the church on Sundays requires the faithful to reflect on even the smallest of sins, which can easily include being uncharitable (most easily on the internet) to political adversaries. It’s so easy—and rewarding in attracting attention—to spike the ball on a political point. That old song “They’ll Know We Are Christians by Our Love” can get lost during the week. The media can be so hostile to faithful Christians that it can be hard not to respond in kind.   We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. COPYRIGHT 2025 CREATORS.COM The post An American Pope Confounds the Press   appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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As Catholics around the world eagerly awaited white smoke from the Sistine Chapel, a pastor in rural Pennsylvania watched a very different kind of white smoke pouring from a humble chapel at his church. At 9:02 p.m. May 6, a 32-year-old man named Kyle Kuczynski allegedly detonated a stick of dynamite on the altar of the chapel at St. Teresa of Calcutta Church — so named because Mother Teresa once visited it — in Mahanoy City. Surveillance footage turned over to law enforcement revealed that Kuczynski had been casing the chapel, entering at least three other times earlier in the week.It is high time for the federal government to take real action that will deter violence and ensure the safety of its churches. The bombing marked the 500th documented act of violence or vandalism against a Catholic church in the United States in the last five years. CatholicVote, the nation’s largest lay Catholic advocacy organization, has tracked each incident, from the destruction of a Nativity scene at a church in the Florida Keys to the smashing of the crucifix at a church in Emmonak, Alaska. The disturbing long-term pattern of attacks began in May 2020. As civil unrest gripped the country, Catholic churches were caught up in the chaos, with incidents like satanic graffiti spray-painted on walls and bricks thrown through stained-glass windows. A historic church in California, built in 1790, was burned to the ground. But even as the national climate calmed down, the attacks against Catholic churches accelerated. The first wave of attacks was usually tied to loosely related left-wing movements. Others had more broadly spiritual themes. Statutes of Jesus, Mary, and saints were destroyed, often in eerie ways such as beheadings. Altars were ransacked. Nativity scenes were vandalized. More churches were set on fire. The violence took a darker turn when the draft of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision was leaked in May 2022. Dozens of Catholic churches were attacked by pro-abortion activists working under the banners of Jane’s Revenge, Ruth Sent Us, and other domestic extremist networks. In one incident, pro-abortion rioters attempted to storm a Catholic church in Manhattan; when they were thwarted by parishioners guarding the doors, the rioters resorted to hurling profanities and performing a strange stunt involving a baby doll. In one particularly sinister case, someone posted a note threatening a mass shooting if abortion were banned on the door of a college dormitory for Catholic students at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. The tracker specifically excludes cases that are clearly motivated by material gain, like thefts of cash from the poor box. The attacks have common threads of politically and spiritually tinged hatred. Take, for example, a 2023 incident in rural Arkansas in which an intoxicated man took a sledgehammer to a stone altar at an abbey and extracted 1,500-year-old relics of saints that were sealed inside and not externally visible. Hundreds of statues have been damaged or destroyed. Bricks have been thrown through stained-glass windows in acts of hate that hearken back to the civil rights era. Dozens of altars have been ransacked. Five cases involved gunshots fired at churches, including a remote abbey in Missouri in which nuns were sleeping. A few holy water fonts have been sabotaged with urine and feces. Children have been traumatized by threatening messages. An estimated $36 million in damages has been caused by the attacks. Fifty of the attacks involved arson, with several churches declared a total loss. But the price tag does not tell the full story. Some of the damages are not quantifiable, such as irreplaceable antique stained-glass windows or consecrated hosts and relics that have been stolen. Plus, the need to hire security guards or install new security equipment — costs that are usually not covered by insurance — far exceeds repair and replacement price tags. Precious artifacts donated by immigrants or grandmothers, or slaved over by parishioners, have been lost. In several cases, clergy and parishioners have been physically attacked, including one priest in Kansas who was killed last month. The violence hearkens back to grim periods in the 19th and 20th centuries when Catholics faced similar attacks and had their loyalties constantly questioned. This violence was completely unabated during the Biden administration. The second Catholic president dedicated zero federal resources to combatting the problem. Not a single federal arrest or prosecution was made in any of the cases. No task forces were convened, and no strong statements of condemnation came from the Biden White House. Local arrests have been recorded in only about 30% of the incidents. Pastors have reported that local law enforcement are diligent but hamstrung by a lack of resources that the federal government could have provided. Fortunately, there is some hope on the horizon. The Trump administration has vowed to combat anti-religious violence, and Harmeet Dhillon, assistant attorney general in the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, recently pledged to prosecute perpetrators of attacks on churches, which can be federal crimes under the FACE Act. As all eyes are on the Catholic Church, it is high time for the federal government to take real action that will deter violence and ensure the safety of its churches. Anti-Catholic bigotry cannot be tolerated any longer.