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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

RIP Jaki

Received in an email: > One of my [our] most beloved spiritual fathers and mentors, Benedictine Father Stanley Jaki, died quietly in the company of friends, from complications following an previous major cardiac event, on 7 April 2009, at Clinica de la Conception in Madrid, Spain where he was visiting

Wednesday Bullets

I must've missed the announcement: New political philosophy on web: Front Porch Republic [http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/]. It looks like it's dedicated to a lot of the ideas I promote here. Though I'm more of a quasi-anarchist (I like to call myself an

Tuesday Miscellany

New Chesterton books that I hadn't heard of until last weekend: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton Vol. I: Non-Fiction [http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1604591579/thedailyeudem-20] and The Fantastic Fiction of Gilbert Chesterton [http://www.batteredbox.com/GardnerMartin/FantasticFictionChesterton.htm]. The first is merely

Calling All Nerds

20 Books to Make You a Smart Catholic Joseph Epstein is the best essayist alive. He's urbane, funny, self-deprecating. He's a fine stylist, and he's remarkably well-read. I remember William F. Buckley marveling at Epstein's erudition and wondering how Epstein

Something for Palm Sunday Morning

"The story of each man is the story of God's continual watchfulness over him. Each man is the object of the Lord's special love. Jesus was ready to do everything for Jerusalem, but the city was not willing to open up her gates to his

Brews You Can Use

Mercy, whatta week. I took Marie out to dinner last night, and I didn't even order a beer. I simply felt too lousy. The doctor says I'm fine, so I'm probably just suffering from lameness. Marie and the kids are leaving for the weekend.

From the Notebooks

"[W]e who plague people with words are many nowadays, while those who teach or are taught by actions are very few." St. Maximos the Confessor on blogging "If we discovered paradise, some real estate [developer] would subdivide it . . . and in a year reproduce Los Angeles."

Tuesday Miscellany

Hell freezes over: The devil's in the details, but it looks like Obama's willing to let the automakers go bankrupt. I never thought he'd let that happen to his UAW constituency: The Obama's administration's leading plan to fix General Motors

Feature Essay

Good revolutionaries get slaughtered. That might be one way of characterizing the lesson of Barabbas. On that scary day 2,000 years ago, when Hell unleashed its fury on the God Man, that wicked man was freed to go. We don't know what happened to him, but on

Something for Sunday Morning

"Our friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances have to find us loyal, sincere, cheerful, optimistic, good at our job, resilient, pleasant, courageous . . . At the same time, in a simple and natural way, we must make known our faith in Christ." Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God