Eric Scheske

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The Year of Two Popes

The January/February issue of The Atlantic Monthly came yesterday. It has a lot of neat stuff in it, including a 21-page piece about JPII/B16 by Paul Elie [http://www.beliefnet.com/story/137/story_13721_1.html] (senior editor at Farrar Straus & Giroux, Flannery O'Connor&

Muslim Catholics

> An Islamic campaign group has called for a Catholic primary school to be based on the Muslim faith. > The Campaign for Muslim Schools said 90% of pupils at St Albert's Primary, in Pollokshields, Glasgow, were Muslim. > Osama Saeed, co-ordinator of the alliance of Glasgow'

Ten Myths

Ten myths of religious freedom [http://www.ncregister.com/articulo2.php?artkod=MTY4]. Required knowledge for Catholics who want to embrace the First Amendment but don't want it poisoning their beliefs.

Something for Sunday Morning

"Outward restlessness often goes together with inner listlessness. . . The states of quietness and inner alertness belong together, supporting and determining each other." Romano Guardini, The Art of Praying

Judas' Rehabilitation Revisited

The story of efforts to rehabilitate Judas were apparently exaggerated. Link [http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2006/01/mea-culpa-why-it-is-important-to.html] . Thanks, Curt Jester [http://www.splendoroftruth.com/curtjester/archives/006412.php].

Catholic Charities Must Fund Contraceptives

A good overview of the NY Court of Appeals decision earlier this week [http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/102/53.0.html] regarding a state law that requires employers' insurance plans to cover prescription contraceptives. Excerpt: > [A] New York appeals court ruled 3-2 in favor of the

Litigating Bishops

I'm not surprised. Discouraged, but not surprised. The reference to "MRC" is to Media Research Center, which is run by Brent Bozell (a Catholic): > MRC has a news service on the Internet, Cybercast News Service. It uses the name CNSNEWS.com and has been since

Bursting Convent

Lack of vocations? Not if you ditch the newfangled ways and go back to the tried and true. Link [http://www.catholicreport.org/?id=155].

Gumbleton

That explains a lot about this heretic (excuse my rhetoric, but the man is a troubling bishop): > Breaking ranks with his peers, a Roman Catholic bishop called yesterday for state legislatures to temporarily remove the time limits that have prevented many victims of sex abuse from suing the church.

Muslim Air

This can't be wholly accurate. It can't, right? > A British airline banned its staff from taking Bibles and wearing crucifixes or St. Christopher medals on flights to Saudi Arabia to avoid offending the country's Muslims. > British Midland International also has told female