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Eric Scheske

Congrats

The University of Texas Tower shines in orange when its team wins a national championship [http://www.utexas.edu/spotlight/tower_lighting.html]. I thought I read once that it shines entirely in orange (gold?) only when its football team won a national championship, but the link above says it

Catholic Radio Leads Election Victory in Poland

And our secularists hate American talk radio and its domination by the Religious Right. I wonder who their most popular personality is, Rush Limbowski? > The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza has provided extensive coverage of that country's latest national elections and has concluded that the “real winner” is

Keating Asks Questions

In his most recent e-letter, Karl Keating asks a few tough questions about the Vatican's instruction regarding the ordination of homosexuals. Excerpt: > The recent instruction regarding the ordination of homosexuals took, by various accounts, anywhere from five to eight years to write. I realize that things

Thinking Really Fast

For those who missed news about the highly-respected Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near: [http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20051229-090610-4704r] > Kurzweil's latest futuristic tome is the sequel to his last bestseller, The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers

Chestertonian Poetry

A Chestertonian (fan of G.K. Chesterton) has dedicated himself to writing a new poem every day during 2006 [http://eveningisles.blogspot.com/]. I ain't no poetry expert and the year is awfully young, but it's a novel idea. I suspect it'll be worth

200 Hours?

This guy desecrates a Mass and he only gets 200 hours of community service? That's outrageous. Then again, liturgists have been desecretating it for 20 years, and they're not even prosecuted: > An 18-year-old Alice Springs man who streaked through a Christmas Eve mass

Conan on Trump

> Donald Trump is considering a run for president in 2008. He will find a running mate, then later dump her for a younger, hotter running mate.

Drug Me

Teenagers are geeked in Rhode Island (which just approved prescription marijuana [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060104/ap_on_he_me/medical_marijuana_3]): > Teenagers are taking more mind-altering drugs -- but under doctor's orders. > Drug prescriptions meant to counter depression, anxiety and mood or

Standing Up Against Secular Mores

St. Thomas University in St. Paul, Minnesota, told a co-habitating couple that they couldn't co-habitate during a student trip to Australia. The sulking couple refused to go at all. Now there's a campus debate raging. I'm more interested in the legality, which

Fund Raiser Idea

Might not be a bad idea. I'll have to float it by my children's parochial school principal: > Bake sales? Been done. Car washes? So 2005. And pop can drives can fall flat. So the Rev. Rick Oliver, pastor for the First Church of God in