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Eric Scheske

Motu Propio

Well, now that B16 has declared that Catholics should have greater access to the old Latin Mass [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=52234], I suppose I should offer some sort of commentary. Disclaimer: Regular readers may notice that I rarely comment on liturgical issues. The reason: I&

Something for Sunday Morning

"It is not good to look at what it is not lawful to desire." St. Gregory the Great

The Baseball Eudemon

It's baseball time. Jack's (11) regular season ended, but now he's playing on his league's junior All-Star team (first-year players, for the most part) and representing our town against other towns in the area. Today, he has games at 1:

The Friday Eudemon

It's the feast day of the patron saint of people against pornography: St. Maria Goretti [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=78]. A good-looking twelve-year-old, she was attacked by a man whose imagination had been inflamed by looking at the (compared to

The Thursday Eudemon

So, my fourteen-year-old jock nephew Dan Scheske enters a July Fourth three-on-three basketball tournament in Topeka, Indiana [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topeka,_Indiana], a podunk town with a lot of Amish people, situated about thirty minutes from my house. He gets there and sees a

Happy Fourth

I hope everyone has a good Fourth of July. I'll spend the bulk of mine at the office, a payback for my extended leave. You know you're busy when you're looking forward to working on a holiday because "the phone won't

The Tuesday Eudemon

I'm surprised there aren't more stories of such confusion [http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22009028-5012895,00.html]: > A bouncer at a popular restaurant in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighbourhood ejected a lesbian customer from the women's bathroom

Kirk

Russell Kirk is back in the news [http://merecomments.typepad.com/merecomments/2007/07/russell-kirks-c.html]. The news centers around a debate about his religious beliefs. Whatta great opportunity for my egotistical self to post a link to my article about the matter [http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/

The Eudemon Returns

If you hadn't surmised, I was on vacation last week. I won't bore you with details, but I will bore you with pictures and bullet narrative. Thursday, June 21, 2007 A multi-million-dollar business closing got postponed, so I left the office at noon, cleaned

Something for Sunday Morning

"Obedience is, in a way, the mother of all virtues." St. Augustine