Eric Scheske

Slate, which purports to be an unbiased news source, has this front headline today: "Ratz! Cardinal Ratzinger is a great choice for pope--if the church wants to adhere to backward doctrine, alienate more of its followers, and lose more influence in the developing world." The feature article

Fascinating article about polygamy in Utah and Arizona and the effect of gay marriage on that fundamentalist Mormon institution. LINK. [http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/basham200504180745.asp] Excerpts: > [For over fifty years, due to a disastrous raid on polygamists back in 1953, both Utah and Arizona's tacit

If you're curious about how they're reading the Oxyrhynchus Papyri, it's a technology called "multispectral imaging." It's kind of interesting, but too nerdy for anyone who even pretends to be cool. Anyway, here's the link [http://www.slate.

The pope ought "to be the guarantor of obedience . . . The pope himself cannot even say, I am the Church, or I am the tradition, but he is, on the contrary, under constraint; he incarnates this constraint laid upon the Church. Whenever temptations arise in the Church to do things

Issue XXI Goodness gracious. Whatta day. You ever feel like unseen forces are colluding to keep you from an appointed task? For Eric Scheske, the election of Cardinal Ratzinger was one of the most exciting things he'd witnessed in his life. He wanted nothing else but to watch

In light of Benedict XVI, a twenty-something reflects on her generation and all the changes she's seen in her brief 26 years on earth. It's a nice little essay. LINK [http://cruxmag.typepad.com/signs/]. Excerpt: > I propose a name for my generation---let&

Say what you want about Andrew Sullivan, he is usually (not always) forthright and lays it on the line. When you read him, you know what the Left is thinking (though Sullivan purportedly was a conservative, his homosexuality has steadily pushed him all the way to the Left on social

LINK [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1572667,00.html]. Excerpt: > Unknown to many members of the church, however, Ratzinger's past includes brief membership of the Hitler Youth movement and wartime service with a German army anti- aircraft unit. > Although there is no suggestion

A traditionalist Catholic e-mailed the following to us: "Nice to see the Church throw the old red flag at the bull once again, the bull being the Western media." Nice indeed.

Amazing/troubling/sickening. You decide: Results from an eBay search of "Pope Benedict" LINK [http://search.ebay.com/pope-benedict_W0QQsojsZ1QQfromZR40]