Eric Scheske

"The Irish bookmaker Paddy Power quickly issued odds on the cardinals considered most likely to succeed Benedict – with Cardinal Marc Ouellet, the Canadian head of the Vatican's office for bishops, Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Nigerian who was converted from animism by Irish missionaries, Cardinal Peter Appiah Turkson

Oklahoma! Our local high school performed Oklahoma! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma!] this last weekend. I didn't have any kids in the musical, but one good friend of the family's had the lead ("Curley"), plus we knew quite a few of the other

"At the root of insincerity lies pride. This vice prevents a person from submitting to God, recognizing his dependence on God and doing what God wants. A proud person has difficulty in even recognizing that he is doing wrong and needs to correct his behavior. When this vice takes

Violent Cities This story caught my eye: San Pedro de Sula (Honduras) is the world's most violent city [http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/news/2013/02/08/honduran-city-is-world-murder-capital-juarez-drops-for-second-year-in-row/] . I've long taken an interest in

BYCU The beer world has grown complicated. Eric Asimov counts the ways [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/b/beer/index.html] . Excerpt: "Nowadays, the beer shelves are so crammed with brews labeled Maximus, Monstrous and Imperial that you feel as if you've stumbled into

Eclectic Thursday I don't pay much attention to college football recruiting, but this caught my eye: Ole Miss may have snagged the top-rated recruiting class in the nation yesterday [http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-06/top-high-school-football-recruit-nkemdiche-selects-mississippi.html] . I

Bullets I don't get involved much in the gun control debate, but this quip yesterday made me smile: "If guns kill people, how does anybody get out of a gun show alive?" * * * * * * * Who could've possibly seen anything like this coming: " Prison guard pregnant

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