Even though it’s two kilometers away, the Great Pyramid is the biggest thing on the horizon. It looms over the Giza Plateau, which in turn looms over the city of Giza. It’s hard to describe just how large the pyramid is; it’s more of a geographic feature than a building…

IMPRIMATUR E Civitate Vaticana, de 1a aprilis 1950. Fr. Gabriel Monti, O.E.S.A., Secret. In the year 1622 a Carmelite father, R. P. Ignatius, was despatched by the Propaganda in Rome to the Nestorians of Mesopotamia. While in Basrah, he met with members of a sect who, as is their custom when dealing with Christians, told him their prophet…

People associate cities with traffic, asphalt, and buildings. San Francisco often seems like one enormous parking lot: disconnected from nature. But there’s a real jungle coexisting with the urban jungle. Hiding in plain sight are an abundance of deadly plants. These range from the terrifying — like the deliriant Brugmansia…