Eric Scheske

Fascinating episode on EWTN Live earlier this month: "After suffering a spinal injury and praying for Cardinal Newman's intercession, Guest Deacon Jack Sullivan's healing on August 15, 2011 sparked calls for the Cardinal's beautification." Link to MP3 [http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/

Speaking of Ayn Rand (see yesterday's Rambling), I think I found another Catholic libertarian: Jay Wesley Richards. He doesn't call himself a libertarian in "Why Libertarians Need God [http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org/2014/03/libertarians-and-religion.html] ," but he has clearly spent a

Miscellaneous Rambling Ah, one of nature's great gifts is unfolding: the Indian Summer. We had a freeze Saturday night, followed with gorgeous weather on Sunday and a gorgeous forecast for the next ten days. It's definitely my favorite time of the year, weather-wise. * * * * * * * Interesting essay

Rough sports day yesterday. First, Meg loses her cross-country meet at the last second (18:40:9 to 18:40:7), then Michigan loses to Michigan State even though MSU, literally, held the lead 00:00 minutes of the game. I thought MSU played a decent game and I

A Random Passage “[T]he reality behind the words of the Declaration of Independence (issued in the same year as Adam Smith's capitalist manifesto, The Wealth of Nations) was that a rising class of important people needed to enlist on their side enough Americans to defeat England, without

BYCU I love it when two hobbies come together, especially when one of the hobbies is drinking. This email I received from a TDE reader combines vodka and gardening: "So, two years ago, we bought a small hops vine, just for fun. Year 1, it grew a little but

From the Gardening Journals I'm pretty much giving up on gardening websites, unless they're certified knowledgeable (e.g., Johnny's Selected Seeds). I've gotten all sorts of bad advice from gardening bloggers who, I suspect, crank out script without regard to whether the

Background: When I was the editor of Gilbert Magazine [http://www.chesterton.org/explore-the-acs/gilbertmagazine/], I was responsible for the "Tremendous Trifles" column. It was occasionally hard to find a sufficient amount of interesting GKC material to fill the page, so John Peterson sent me a

Miscellaneous Rambling So my son is a freshman at Eastern Michigan University. Its homecoming was last weekend. He sent me this text, "Eastern gave the homecoming couple award to two lesbians, one of which said she is an 'avid member' of Catholics on Campus." Great, just

October continues its retinue of great saints. Sunday is new saint St. John XXIII, who was perhaps the funniest guy to occupy the Chair of St. Peter. Wednesday belongs to the little-known St. Callistus, but Thursday is a huge feast day: St. Teresa Avila, the beautiful sixteenth century nun