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Eric Scheske

Another Endorsement of Zmirak

The Curt Jester agrees with my strong endorsement of the Bad Catholic's Guide to Good Living. > [A]t times I learned some interesting facts about the lives of the saints mostly I laughed out loud while reading it. For example "Some skeptics have asked 'If

Identifying a Cult

I found this column by The God Squad (a Jewish Rabbi and Catholic Monsignor) interesting: Four common characteristics of a cult [http://www.detnews.com/2005/religion/0511/06/A23-372875.htm]. > 1. Love bombing. Most of the cults we've encountered engage in this highly successful technique

Digital Essay: Conservative for Diversity

I'm digging Google Print. One of my first GP research projects: Checking out Russell Kirk's use of the word “diversity” in The Conservative Mind. He referred to it as a society's “leaven” and had many other kind things to say about it: “Burke loathed

Porn to Go

Porn downloads are proving popular for iPods [http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/11/04/D8DLT9T0A.html]: > Purveyors of porn and entrepreneurs who spied a niche when Apple Computer Inc. unveiled its video-playing iPod are proving that sex even sells in tiny packages -- especially when it is portable.

Belloc on Eurabian War

The festivities in France prompted me to take a few Belloc books onto the front porch with me this morning. I ran across this passage in The Great Heresies: > The missionary efforts made by great Catholic order which have been occupied in trying to turn Mohammedans into Christians for

Old Church

> Israeli archaeologists said Saturday they have discovered what may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a prison near the biblical site of Armageddon. > The Israeli Antiquities Authority said the ruins are believed to date back to the third or fourth centuries

Steyn on the Eurabian Civil War

Great column [http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn06.html]. Excerpts: > For half a decade, French Arabs have been carrying on a low-level intifada against synagogues, kosher butchers, Jewish schools, etc. The concern of the political class has been to prevent the spread of these attacks

More on Eurabian Civil War

WaPo logs on today with a piece that bleeds sympathy for the French rioters [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/05/AR2005110501515.html] . It's the same kind of analysis we're accustomed to: these people are neglected, disenfranchised. But then you look more

Something for Sunday Morning

> We should have a daily familiarity with death, a daily desire for death. By this kind of detachment our soul must learn to free itself from the desires of the body. It must soar above earthly lusts to a place where they cannot come near, to hold it fast.

Kicking Out the Catholics

Fascinating piece at Commonweal about the Democratic Party's intentional neglect of Catholics [http://www.commonwealmagazine.org/article.php?id_article=1422]. Excerpt: > Better known as the McGovern Commission, for its chairman, Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, the twenty-eight-member panel became the vehicle by which