Eric Scheske

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Nun in Nicaragua

I'll have to search the Catholic blogosphere for information about this [http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyID=2006-09-06T004605Z_01_N05386978_RTRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-LIFE-NICARAGUA.XML] : > A former novice who gave up training to be a nun to fight in a leftist insurrection

Something for Sunday Morning

> Let us detach ourselves in spirit from all that we see and cling to that which we believe. This is the cross which we must imprint on all our daily actions and behavior. St. Peter Damian

No God Spot?

From LiveScience [http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060829_god_spot.html]: > The human brain does not contain a single "God spot" responsible for mystical and religious experiences, a new study finds. > Instead, the sense of union with God or something greater than the self often described

Pope and ID

From this morning's Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,1859760,00.html]: > Philosophers, scientists and other intellectuals close to Pope Benedict will gather at his summer palace outside Rome this week for intensive discussions that could herald a fundamental shift in the Vatican'

Something for Sunday Morning

"Love is the only sign that distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil." St. Augustine, whose feast day is tomorrow. Article I wrote two years ago for his feast day [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=2&art_id=23866]

The Best D*$@ Sports Book

> The Pontifical Council for the Laity has released a book of essays on the world of athletics, praising honest competition but warning against excesses of individualism and "body worship." > The collection of essays is entitled The Sporting World Today: A Field of Christian Commitment. In an

Joan

The Pope's reference to Joan of Arc yesterday [http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=45996] reminded me: My eldest son recently acquired a copy of Mark Twain's biography of Joan of Arc. I'm ashamed to admit it, but I know nothing about

Another Sighting

This PR stunt is getting older than marrying Elizabeth Taylor [http://www.biogs.com/famous/taylorliz.html]: > Some have seen her in toast, in trees, even potato chips. Now one suburban St. Louis man says the Virgin Mary is in his refrigerator. > Last week, John Milonas was grilling

Pope Against Hard Work?

No, he's not against hard work. But he is against filling our lives with non-stop activity, something I've been guilty of for the past two months. Quoting St. Bernard Clairvaux: > "We have to guard ourselves, the saint observed, from the dangers of excessive activity,

Something for Sunday Morning

> For everyone who stands against God and is at war with Him is an enemy of God, even if he makes all men to be at peach with each other, for even as he makes them to be at peace with each other he does it in a way