This Week's Column
Mafia Discourse
[http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=34618]: My column
this week at Catholic Exchange.
Eric Scheske
Foley
Well, I read the Foley email/instamessage exchange with the underage page. I've
taken four showers since and still don't feel clean, but I knew the risk going
in.
What's there to say that hasn't been said? Nothing, except maybe this: The
A Great Week
This might be the best week of the year for saints:
October 1 (or 3): St Therese [http://www.ewtn.com/therese/therese.htm]
October 2: All Angels [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07050a.htm]
October 4: St. Francis [http://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=50]
October
Brews You Can Use: Midweek Edition
Something this grievous couldn't wait for Friday's Brews You Can Use
[http://www.boingboing.net/2006/10/03/up_in_smoke_4_of_ame.html]:
> About 4 percent of all hops in the USA went up in flames [on Tuesday]. Most of
the country'
Foley
Today's Wall Street Journal raises points related to the ones I raised earlier
today [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009033]:
> But in today's politically correct culture, it's easy to understand how senior
Republicans might well have decided they had no
Russian Warning
> The Russian government is warning that people who give or take bribes will "burn
in the flames of hell."
> The drastic warning comes in a mass leafleting scheme aimed at rooting out
widespread corruption in society.
Link [http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2021110.html?
Page Scandal
I don't blog much about politics, but I'm interested in the page scandal
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061003/ap_on_el_ge/foley_fallout;_ylt=AshUKVo__zDe9EqOluf28iyyFz4D;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ--]
because I'm curious to see how the press handles it. Let's
Light Posting
Sorry about the light posting. It's been a manic Monday. Until I can post
something better:
An aphorism every teenage girl needs to hear, memorize, and understand:
> Love in young men, for the most part, is not love but simply sexual desire and
its accomplishment is its
SecureGive
The megachurches have come up with a new way to make money: ATMs for giving. LA
Times link
[http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-holyatm28sep28,0,6671307,full.story]
.
> It was one of Stevens Creek's three "Giving Kiosks": a sleek black pedestal
Something for Sunday Morning
> The measure of our advancement in the spiritual life should be taken from the
progress we make in the virtue of mortification; for it should be held as
certain that the greater violence we shall do ourselves in mortification, the
greater advance we shall make in perfection.
St. Jerome