You know you’re in interesting times when a volcano with smoke that looks like the profile of something nefarious sprouts two flows of lava that in their turn look like horns, and days later, the major fault upon which it sits (in Kamchatka, Russia) causes the most powerful quake in fourteen years (and a Pacific-wide tsunami alert).
Then, the volcano (Klyuchevskoy) itself, throwing fiery debris eight miles into the air, erupts for the first time in six centuries.
We’re hearing it from all over.
“It’s never been quite like this.”
“It’s never rained this hard.”
Or been this hot and humid.
Or whatever.
It’s a time of extremes.
120 degrees in Phoenix.
An unusually chilly summer in California (San Francisco).
Two quakes in the New York City area.
Florida? The South?
Forget about it.
The Northeast?
Our son is in Manhattan and doesn’t want to leave his apartment—he showers before going to bed, because even with air conditioning, he is sweating.
A sister in Stamford, Connecticut, says in the fifty years she’s been there, it’s never been this uncomfortable.
Last week we were in St. Louis visiting another sister. Ninety-nine degrees. (“Real-feel”: 110).
Cities such as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Roanoke, Virginia, and Washington, D.C., all registered their most humid July in recorded history, according to figures compiled by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
2024 was the warmest year on record, and 2025 is continuing the trend, with monthly global temperatures breaking records nearly every month through July.
Canada is facing another record wildfire season.
And flash floods? We all know about Texas. But they are occurring elsewhere as well.
Typhoons? These Pacific storms, likewise intensifying, have hit the Philippines, Japan, and China harder than usual.
Or back to those tectonics?
The Phlegraean Fields supervolcano area near Naples, Italy, experienced a swarm of small-to-moderate earthquakes, including a magnitude 4.6 tremor on June 30—the strongest in about forty years.
Southern Tokara Islands, Japan, experienced a relentless earthquake swarm—more than 1,000 tremors since mid‑June.
And don’t you just hate when that asteroid that looks like a devil wings around (like last year)?
Pre-signs.
The Vatican says it’s due to human-induced climate change (Leo is the fourth Pope in a row to declare such). We say it’s that (there are four billion cars) but also part of natural trends that God simply sends.
The world’s oceans experienced their most extreme fever ever recorded in 2023. Scientists say these are events that would typically happen only once every 276 years. Now, they suggest that these unprecedented ocean temperatures may represent an early signal that earth’s climate intricacy is approaching a tipping point.
This occurs as we are also reaching a “tipping point” with outrageous musicians (Ozzy Osbourne, the “prince of darkness,” went to eternity two weeks ago, God bless him); trans-this and trans-that; unregulated A.I. (be careful of taking its medical advice); the profane at every turn; and unbridled consumerism-materialism (average new car cost: $48,000; median home $411,000- $975,000 in Hawaii).
Oh, the “signs of the times” come in many ways and are now all over the place.
We often don’t see them because we are blinded by the world and its busyness and its entertainments and its politics.
All everyone does is talk.
In 2025 there were 4.6 million podcasts registered worldwide. Misinformation is pervasive (one reason the Epstein case was only partly known).
A.I.?
More on that soon.
That could soon blind many more to the rest of reality.
[resources: Sent To Earth and Michael Brown in Pittsburgh]
[Said Mother Angelica about Sent To Earth: “If you didn’t buy his book, you’re missing it. It’s not a scary book; it’s a very good book. If you haven’t bought it I would buy it. I think it’s a great book, just terrific. I think it’s important for my future and your future. I want you to read Sent To Earth. Why? It’s logical, it’s truthful, it’s sensible, and it’s God’s way of saying, ‘Let’s be ready.'”]