In the beginning of the Church, back some 2,000 years ago, there was an awful lot of controversy surrounding this "Alien visitor" from another dimension of time and space. He was quite the disrupter of the status quo and caused a lot of questions with regard as to who this "Jesus" really was. Some even thought He was a prophet reincarnated from the dead to redress the times in which they lived.

Out of this visitation, many controversies and debates emerged, causing an enormous amount of "flurry" about His claims to be the Son of God. This spawned numerous heresies about His nature and just how could He be God's Son and human at the same time.

Last month in Palm Springs, California, a fertility clinic was bombed. The bomber perished in the bombing, and luckily, no one else did. As information began to filter out about the incident, we learned that the bomber was a 25-year-old who supported antinatalism.

The reason he was bombing a fertility clinic is because fertility clinics help people who have a hard time having a child. These clinics employ different methods to fertilize eggs and implant the egg back into a woman for the possibility of a future birth. The bomber was trying to destroy these future embryos. Fortunately, he was not successful in his plan.

It is an understood fact Pentecost—or, as some identify it, Whitsunday—is a Christian observance. Yes, many people that claim Christ as their Savior will take time to acknowledge and in some cases observe Pentecost as the memorial commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit. This is the fulfilled Christian Holy Day described in Acts 2 as the day the Church was empowered with the “Comforter” Jesus spoke about in John 14 and 16. Essentially, it is the Birthday of the Church as a “spiritual organism”!

The ancient Israelites called it the Feast of First Fruits, or the Feast of Weeks. It was known by them to be associated with the spring barley harvest—the first fruits of the new year. Interestingly, we find Pentecost’s origins actually “shadowed” in the narrative described in Leviticus 23.

With the recent death of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church is now involved in a conclave that must occur within 15 to 20 days after the death of a pope. The word "conclave" is Latin and means "a room that can be locked up." The Catholic cardinals will gather in Vatican City and then enter the Sistine Chapel to begin a voting process that begins with one vote on the first day and then two votes in the morning and two in the afternoon until a new pope is chosen by a two-thirds majority.

If a pope is not chosen after three days of voting, the cardinals stop the voting for up to one day so they can pray, discuss, and be exhorted by a key cardinal. Only cardinals who are under the age of 80 can vote for the new pope. One hundred and thirty-five of the Church's 252 cardinals are eligible to vote.