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Photo of Jess visiting the remains of her home for the first time.  By Noelle Mering In 2017, the Thomas Fire tore through Ventura County, CA, raging from the mountains of Santa Paula, through the town, and westward into Ventura, hopscotching through neighborhoods and leaving devastation in its wake. Among the hundreds of families who lost their homes were Jess and Nathan Haggard, along with ...

Fabian was a farmer by trade, having been born likely somewhere around the turn of the 3rd Century. He was also a layman, but other than that next to nothing is known about his prior life. After the death of Pope St. Anterus, in 236 AD, Fabian traveled into Rome from his farm outside the city, with a handful of others, to attend the election to select a new pope. In all likelihood, Fabian and his ...

The monks, the news, and ‘pardon us’ Skip to content Pillar subscribers can listen to JD read this Pillar Post here: The Pillar TL;DR Hey everybody, Today is the feast of St. Meinrad, and you’re reading The Tuesday Pillar Post. Meinrad himself was a German monk who lived like a hermit, drew pilgrims who came to seek his wisdom, and was killed by two robbers who believed mistakenly that the monk ha...

Getty Images (Credit: Getty Images) Stargazers will be treated to a rare alignment of seven planets on 28 February when Mercury joins six other planets that are already visible in the night sky. Here’s why it matters to scientists. Peer up at the sky on a clear night this January and February and you could be in for a treat. Six planets – Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune – ar...

Marcus Freeman is one of the biggest names in college football right now — not just because the Notre Dame head coach has led the Fighting Irish to the brink of its first national championship since 1988, but because of how he has done it. Over his three years as head coach, Freeman, 39, has established a culture at Notre Dame grounded in humility, doing things right and developing the whole perso...

By Clement Harrold January 17, 2025 As modern-day readers, we’re so accustomed to the ideas of chapter and verse that we can barely imagine the Bible without them. But as it happens, it took over a thousand years for Christians to divide the books of Scripture into bite-sized sections; and the Jewish people were using a chapterless, verseless Old Testament long before that! One of the consequences...