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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

What Gets Into These People?

I don't have a lot to say about this, except that it's a terrible sin to put media into the hands of juvenile delinquents: > The German bishops' conference has issued a statement protesting plans by the MTV network to show "Popetown," a

Screwtape on DVC

Screwtape lives! And he writes about the hoax [http://www.ericmetaxas.com/essay-screwtapedavinci.html].

Babes without Teeth

NASCAR Extends Brand With Bikinis [http://www.adrants.com/2006/04/nascar-extends-brand-with-bikinis-clothin.php].

The Spider Eudemon

Crawling the web: Fr. Neuhaus on global warming [http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=229]. The Crunchy Con blog at NR has ended. Dreher has a new Crunchy Con blog at Beliefnet [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/189/story_18930_1.html]. Dawn Patrol reads a Planned Parenthood employee'

Females Killed

How many female American soldiers have been killed in Iraq? I remember seeing a Budweiser commercial back in February. It showed returning U.S. military personnel and airport patrons applauding them. The camera showed close-ups of the military personnel. Out of seven close-ups, five of them were of

Caitlin's New Book

Fine stylist Caitlin Flanagan has waded further into the feminist wars with a book on working mothers. The LA Times [http://www.calendarlive.com/books/cl-et-flanagan12apr12,0,487361.story?coll=la-home-headlines] has a pretty a good piece about it. Excerpt: > These are the women who

Hold This

Karl Keating addresses hand holding during the Our Father at Mass [http://www.catholic.com/newsletters/kke_060411.asp] (see second item). Unfortunately, he doesn't provide much ammunition for killing it, so the hand-holding Nazis will keep grabbing. I can't say how many times I&

Compendium of the Cathechism

Baltimorish [http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=9657]? The era of murkiness is clearing away?

The Spider Eudemon

Crawling the web to bring you an interesting assortment: Joseph Pearce longs for England [http://www.dappledthings.org/lent06/feature.html]. (Name drop: I met Pearce once. We were both speaking at a Chesterton Conference in Minnesota. Very pleasant fellow.) Fr. Jonathan Morris at Fox News Blogs writes about the

Suing to be Intolerant

The Huff Po headline said, "Christians Sue For For [sic] Right to be Intolerant." It linked to this LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-christians10apr10,0,6596503.story] story that's entitled, " Christians Sue for Right Not to Tolerate Policies." It&