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Eric Scheske

Eric Scheske

Pope on Advent

FYI [http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1129685&tw=wn_wire_story] : > Pope Benedict warned on Sunday against rampant materialism which he said was polluting the spirit of Christmas. > "In today's consumer society, this time of the year unfortunately

When Do Kids Stop Believing?

I always wondered about this: > Most children start questioning the existence of Santa Claus when they are between 6 and 8. By the time they are 9 or 10, most have ceased believing entirely, said Paul Harris, a developmental psychologist and a professor at Harvard University. Link [http://www.

Olson on Lewis

Carl Olson writes about C.S. Lewis' Christianity [http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/colson_cslewisthought_dec05.asp]. Excerpts: > Even those Catholics who express great admiration for Lewis point out that one of the weaknesses of Lewis's theological and apologetic writings is a weak, or hazy, view

Go Get 'Em, Liberty Fund

The "Christmas Wars" make me a little bit uneasy, but they're necessary. The secularists have beaten the tar out of Christians for too long, and it results in things like the practice in one Ridgeway, Wisconsin elementary school [http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/82005a.asp]

Let Men Terminate?

In light of Judge Alito's advocacy of a man's right to have a word in whether to terminate a pregnancy, a columnist at the LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-daum10dec10,0,5842196.column?coll=la-news-comment-opinions] asks some

Credit Street

The New York Times points out this morning [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/11/national/11credit.html?hp&ex=1134363600&en=ab89cbe431f36eb0&ei=5094&partner=homepage] that people who file for bankruptcy are inundated with credit card offers (it's always been this way,

Maonster

WaPo runs a review of MAO: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/08/AR2005120801641.html] . According to the review (and others I've seen), the book details Mao's atrocities and shows that he was

Odd Coincidence

Last night, I dug up the quote from JPII that I ran for this week's "Something for Sunday Morning" post. This morning, I ran across WaPo's review of The Town that Forgot to Breathe, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/

Something for Sunday Morning

> In the era of technology our life risks becoming always more anonymous and merely a function of the production process. In this way, man becomes incapable of enjoying the beauties of the Creator and to see in them the reflection of the face of God. John Paul II

"Dyke" No Longer Derogatory

Sounds good to me. I'll now openly use the word "dyke" > A lesbian motorcycle group in San Francisco declared victory Thursday in their fight for a federal trademark for the name "Dykes on Bikes." > The U.S. Patent and Trademark office twice