Eric Scheske

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More Gene-like Fun

> On May 6, representatives of the Episcopalian communities in the California diocese will meet to select a new bishop from among seven nominated candidates. Three of the nominees are openly homosexual, the Los Angeles Times [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politics/cal/la-me-bishop4may04,1,786705.story?coll=la-news-politics-california&

Anti-Catholicopedia

I saw this at the Catholic Exchange roundtable message board [http://www.catholicexchange.com/messageboard/docs/viewtopic.asp?mbid=2&DocumentID=11645] . I've been thinking the same thing lately: > If any of you have any time now or this summer, it would be a great help

Brews You Can Use

How much can you drink tonight? To merriness. From Charles Coulombe's article, Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion, in the most recent Catholic Men's Quarterly [http://www.houseonthemoor.com/]: > [T]he view of the Church [with respect to drink] go back to the Book of Proverbs'

Hell Freezes Over

> Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios backed efforts yesterday toward the construction of a mosque in Athens after Greece was recently criticized for not offering its Muslim community a suitable prayer site [http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/blog/?p=1594#more-1594].

Something for Sunday Morning

Henri Gheon, writing about some of the folks in St. John Vianney's parish: > And last, there was that extraordinary being, Pere Chaffangeon, who remained for hours before the altar, without even moving his lips; it seems that he was speaking to God. > "And what do

What's Next? Re-habbing Rape?

> A former Jesuit turned university professor has set himself an ambitious project: rehabilitating the devil [http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/satan-victim-of-a-devilish-image-problem/2006/04/11/1144521339095.html] . Of course, "Satan" is the embodiment of evil itself, so you can't rehabilitate him anymore than you

Church in China

From this morning's WaPo: [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/22/AR2006042201443.html] > After more than half a century of hostility, China and the Roman Catholic Church have inched within reach of normal relations, a historic shift aimed at improving the lives of 10

The Muslim Missal

What Muslims hear at Friday prayers [http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,411903,00.html]. Summarizing excerpt: > Are these words of hatred and discrimination really representative of the thousands upon thousands of Friday prayers that millions of Muslims around the world attend each week? And what

Something for Sunday Morning

For our Eastern Orthodox brethren who are celebrating Easter today: > The whole man would not have been saved, unless he had taken upon himself the whole man. Origen > On Easter Day all of us who were imprisoned for religious convictions were united in the one joy of Christ.

The Weekend Eudemon

I snapped a 40-year streak yesterday: I didn't attend services on Good Friday. As long as I can remember, I've attended Good Friday services and always found them among the most edifying of the year. When I was a kid, my Lutheran church held seven mini-services