This week is Armageddon week on the History Channel, and I was pulled into an hour's worth of frightening program last night, learning about how Revelations will come true. Will "wormwood" a huge meteor referred to in the Bible kill us off?

A few of stories of political nuns: First, perhaps the oldest voter in this election is a 106-year-old nun living in Rome, aired on CBS News. This is the second of time she has voted in her long life, and the last time she vote for Eisenhower. This time, she's voting for Obama, but she was shy to show her button on TV and "campaign" for him.

Raffella Fico, 20, is a good Catholic who prays to Padre Pio every night, her brother says.  She's also a show girl, model, an aspiring actress who appeared on Italian Big Brother, and a virgin--at least until somebody buys her virginity for 1 million Euros, the U.K. Telegraph reports. She plans to spend the money on a home in Rome and acting classes.

A new study suggests that burning incense may cause cancer, Reuters reports. But the study focuses more on home incense, common in Asian cultures, rather than at church, though I suppose that priests might be around incense enough to worry. Earlier this year, researchers said incense might be a mind-altering substance.