Eric Scheske

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Marching in the Land of Free Speech

A pro-life marcher describes marching in San Fransisco: > [T]he pro-life walkers were flanked by hundreds of counter-protestors shouting obscenities, waving coat hangers, and mocking the Catholic Church. One pregnant woman bared her belly, on which she had scrawled in large black letters, “My baby is pro-choice.” Others wore

The Gift of Death That Keeps on Giving

> RU-486 is the drug that won't die, no matter how many women who take it do. A recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine suggested that an RU-486 abortion was an astonishing ten times more likely to be fatal for the mother than a surgical

Secrets of Married Men

A new book (Secrets of Married Men by Scott Haltzman) tries to save marriages by looking at it from the husband's angle. WaPo Link [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/23/AR2006012301274.html] . Excerpt from review: > [Haltzman's advice:] Use the male habits

Canine Child Substitutes, Episode 182,009

Social networking for canines: > A site called Dogster [http://www.dogster.com/] gives our furry friends the opportunity to post photos, share their personalities, make new friends and even maintain blogs. On Dogster, which won the 2005 Webby Award in the community category, Web savvy humans take a back

Muslims on Sex

Good thing I always keep my socks on: > A curious religious debate is raging in Egypt. The question is: should you keep your clothes on when having sex? > It began when Dr Rashad Khalil, an expert on Islamic law from al-Azhar university in Cairo warned that being completely

Abortion Counseling

Due to time constraints, I haven't been able to engage in my normal on-line review of the country's leading newspapers, so I missed a story in the New York Times yesterday about after-abortion counseling [http://nytimes.com/2006/01/16/national/16abortion.html?hp&ex=

The Catholic and Divorce

The issue is getting press again. This time, the Vatican's former top judicial official said, "In itself, divorce is not a sin, and in certain cases it could even be recommended, to resolve patrimonial or civil problems." Just another outspoken priest, like the kind that continue

St. Monica, Pray for Them

Mean, nasty wives are the rage in Japan [http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200601140135.html].

Not Just for Catholics Anymore

> Celebrity annulments are all the rage these days, with the latest "didn't happen" marriage belonging to Renee Zellweger and Kenny Chesney. The pair got married (there are pictures to prove it!) in May and by September had decided to call it quits. Late last month,

Believable

Chicago Sun-Times article about teen sexuality [http://suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-kiss09.html]. One excerpt: > Holly Harris is a Wheaton-based teen counselor who last month was a featured speaker at a parent conference on "the secret lives of teens" held at Glenbard West High School in Glen