Deer Creek Monastery
At Chesterton and Friends this morning: "Whenever monks come back, marriages
will come back [http://chestertonandfriends.blogspot.com/]."
Eric Scheske
Clergy for Fairness
One thing that stinks about blogging (or any journalism or writing, for that
matter), is finding a possible post, following it up, then finding it's a
non-starter. This morning's NYT has this story
[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/23/us/23marriage.html?_r=1&
Holy Wine
Yahoo News leads this morning with a story about California Trappists that have
started to make wine
[http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20060522/ap_tr_ge/travel_trip_california_monastery]
. I tried to find if there's a place where I could order the wine on-line, but
Wrong Guy
The BBC interviewed the wrong expert for a talking-head shot. Pretty funny
[http://theunknowncandidate.blogspot.com/2006/05/in-praise-of-guy-goma.html].
Excerpt, to give you the gist of the story:
> [Guy] Goma was at the BBC, waiting to be interviewed for a computer job, when a
producer mistook him for
The Jailed
Disturbing figures from Prison Land
[http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/05/21/D8HODD7G0.html]:
> Prisons and jails added more than 1,000 inmates each week for a year, putting
almost 2.2 million people, or one in every 136 U.S. residents, behind bars by
last summer. . . .
>
Booze Makes It Alright
> Rather than wait until they are emotionally prepared for sex, children as young
as 12 are turning to alcohol to help to get them through losing their virginity.
Most are too embarrassed, confused, drunk or illinformed to think about the
risks of pregnancy or sexually transmitted infections, so contraception
History Primer
A reader notifies me that Diane Moczar has just published two books that
introduce readers to Catholic history. Moczar is good. I've read her history
columns in Latin Mass. If you go to this link
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1933184159/thedailyeudem-20], then click
on the
This is Comforting
Some nasty disease is afflicting England
[http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article548096.ece]:
> So far 161 people in the UK have succumbed to the incurable infection which
slowly destroys the brain and leads to death.
It can be passed by blood transfusions. The answer? Screen donors.
Round-Up
The Scratching Post offers her regular excellent summary of this week in
Catholic Blogdom
[http://ktcatspost.blogspot.com/2006/05/this-week-in-theocracy_21.html].
Snapshot of History
I'm repeatedly shocked at the lack of historical knowledge, especially among
Catholics who should have at least a fundamental grasp of the subject in order
to appreciate their religion. I earlier started a booket with the working title,
"18 Holes to Knowledge." It revolved around 18