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Eric Scheske

Something for Sunday Morning

"Our friends and acquaintances should find us increasingly welcome and open to them. We should become better and better able to make life pleasant for others. At times this will require sacrifice and mortification if we are to overcome moodiness and tiredness." Francis Fernandez, In Conversation with God.

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Saturday

No fair: He gets all the publishing breaks: Jesus of Nazareth, the new book by Pope Benedict XVI, has already sold more than 2 million copies, the official Vatican publisher has announced [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=53975].

Hunker Down and Prepare for Battle

This is my weekend of fighting with the devil: Marie leaves first thing this morning and won't come home until late Sunday afternoon. She's inaccessible, except by a spotty cellphone that she normally can't hear. I have The Seven . . . and their functions: marching band

St. Francis' Day

On Monday, I referred to St. Therese Lisieux as "everyone's favorite saint." Foolish, and remarkably short-sighted, of me. That honor goes to today's saint: St. Francis of Assisi. The troubadour-turned-mendicant feast day is today, and everyone likes him, the holy and

Rats in NY, Rats at CBS, Rats, Rats, Rats

"The jury found Thomas and Madison Square Garden sexually harassed Anucha Browne Sanders." [http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3046010&campaign=rss&source=ESPNHeadlines] Madison Square Garden? That makes the most brutal gang attack look tame. __________ Oh, those subtle types at the networks!

The Tuesday Eudemon

Columbia University has standards after all: It fires a professor who leaves an obscene note on another professor's door. Of course, the fired professor has a believable defense. People have mis-characterized his note: Besides, Hyams said, the note he wrote had said "Jack sucks donkey d-

Monday Miscellany

Man, brutal weekend. Over five hours spent at the local youth athletic field on Saturday, then middle-kid duty for about six hours while my wife attended band and soccer functions at locations more than an hour away. I slept like a rock Saturday night, but woke up feeling like

Something for Sunday Morning

"Modesty is praised in humans because it is not a matter of nature, but of will." Lactantius

Something for Saturday

> A man who bought a smoker Tuesday at an auction of abandoned items might have thought twice had he looked inside first. > Maiden police said the man opened up the smoker and saw what he thought was a piece of driftwood wrapped in paper. When he unwrapped it,