Eric Scheske

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Schizoid Catholics

Adulterer behind me, adulterer in front of me. Both freshly unrepentant. All three of us at Mass to celebrate First Communion with our sons. My distaste for American Catholicism spiked at that Mass, but it started long before, back before my conversion in 1991, when I was a Lutheran enamored

Something for Sunday Morning

"If we indulge ourselves in vain, frivolous, or sinful speculations, our minds become incapable of choosing what is most proper for mortifying our disorderly affections." Lawrence Scupoli

No Blogging Saturday

Relief is at hand. My son's last marching band performance was eight days ago, my daughter's last home volleyball game five days ago, my two sons' last football games today. After this, I have a few weeks of reprieve before other activities kick in . . . and

Brews You Can Use

Making the best out of bad situations: A team of researchers at Rice University in Houston is working to create a beer that could fight cancer and heart disease. Taylor Stevenson, a member of the six-student research team and a junior at Rice, said the team is using genetic engineering

From the Notebooks

"It is vain and useless to conceive either grief or joy for future things, which perhaps shall never come to pass. But it is in human nature to be deluded with such imaginations." The Imitation of Christ, Book 3, Chp. 30. Why is it in our nature to

From the Notebooks

I may have been hungover while writing this entry in 2004. Good luck: If you hear a purported absolute truth and it doesn't involve a paradox, you can assume you hear heresy. The tradition of Western philosophy to find an absolute source of knowledge–Descartes' I think

From the Notebooks

From 2002 The coming of the sixth child has been the harshest for us to accept. We finished the addition to our house a year ago, and we consider the house absolutely perfect for our seven-person family. On a scale of one-to-ten, with all things considered (including the virtues of

Something for Sunday Morning

"Anger is a weed; hate is the tree." St. Augustine

From the Notebooks

I earlier said The Great Society and today's college aid programs for single mothers are manifestly unjust in their "actual workings on the individual level." Such programs are couched in terms of "social justice." Their proponents would argue that the programs correct previous manifest

The Wednesday Eudemon

From the Notebooks It is often repeated that a prophet has no honor in his own village–or family, or neighborhood, or country. If he has no honor there, it's because the people closest to him are acquainted with his ordinariness, and it blocks out the greatness, like