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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

B16 Flying

> Pope Benedict XVI plans to visit the United States in 2007, Baltimore's Cardinal William Keeler told a radio audience on January 27 [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=42105]. Well, far out. It's been awhile. When was the Pope's last visit

Brokeback Doesn't Win

I'm quite surprised. I thought Brokeback had a natural right to all Hollywood honors this year. > Reese Witherspoon as singer June Carter in "Walk the Line" and Philip Seymour Hoffman as author Truman Capote in "Capote" won lead-acting awards Sunday from the

$$$ for Christian Groups

> President Bush's $15 billion effort to fight AIDS has handed out nearly one-quarter of its grants to religious groups, and officials are aggressively pursuing new church partners that often emphasize disease prevention through abstinence and fidelity over condom use. Link [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/

Speedier Annulments

Yet another sign that B16 is going to improve the administrative aspects of the Vatican: > Pope Benedict acknowledged concern for the plight of divorcees who are banned from taking communion after remarriage and urged a Vatican tribunal yesterday to rule promptly on requests for annulment. Telegraph Link [http://www.

Catholic Schools Week

The Week starts today. My kids are pretty excited, except my eldest, who has been packed off to public middle school (our parochial middle school shut-down last year, a victim of lukewarm Catholics, homeschooling, and a public school system with a voracious appetite). Anyway, if you care to read

Feast of the Three Hierarchs

My St. James Calendar of the Christian Year [http://www.touchstonemag.com/docs/navigation_docs/products_2006calendar.html] (one of the best calendars you'll ever buy) says that tomorrow the Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates The Feast of the Three Hierarchs [http://www.goarch.org/en/special/listen_learn_

Computer Museum

A museum of old computers and video games [http://www.selectric.org/computer.html]. Kinda neat.

Odd Books

A list of eight odd "How-to" books: How to be Happy Though Married, by "A Graduate in the University of Matrimony" How to Rob Banks without Violence, by Roderic Knowles How to Shit in the Woods, by Kathleen Meyer How to Become a Schizophrenic, by

Dried and Ready for Sale

"A little old lady used to sail it to church on Sundays": > Unscrupulous dealers have been selling automobiles flooded in Hurricanes Katrina and Rita as far away as California, the state's insurance commissioner said on Thursday. > John Garamendi warned that some dealers and salvage

Niall of the Nine Hostages

I'm always drawn to bits of history that I've never even heard about. This one rings a bell, barely [http://shep.wordpress.com/2006/01/18/the-true-father-of-ireland]: > Research by geneticists at Trinity College Dublin reveals that one in 12 Irishmen are