Elizabeth Scalia
Source Go here for my latest updates on Haiti Updated from last night: The horror Difficulty in Mobilizing. Yes, it’s difficult; many roadblocks. The stunned peace begins to break down. Blogs for Victory notes: Looks like Haiti will become a de-facto American protectorate over the next few days as Haiti’s government is essentially collapsed and [...]
Someone asked me what I thought of Pat Robertson’s very quick assertion that Haiti has been “cursed by God.” Pat Robertson on Haiti DisasterUploaded by burghnews. – News videos hot off the press. Oh, for crying out loud! What sensitivity and timing! Sort of like going up to a mother whose just lost her children [...]
Photo by Eduardo Munoz, REUTERS The pictures at the Boston Globe are bone-chilling (Picture #37 gives you a really good grasp of the scope of this disaster) The people of Haiti are perhaps the poorest in the Western Hemisphere. An Earthquake registering 7.0 on the Richter Scale. You’ll recall, the San Francisco earthquake of 1989 [...]
I note that the Summit Dominicans are retiring several soap selections and offering them at reduced prices. The Eucalyptus is great when you are stuffed up. Get a good lather going in a hot shower, and you can breathe again! And of course, when you buy from the nuns, they breathe a little easier at [...]
I know we’re in Advent, (my latest Advent reflection is here) and -for me, anyway- nothing captures the sense of longing and urgent anticipation of this season than O Come, O Come, Emmanuel. I also like O Come, Divine Messiah very much. Some of you may remember I vocally murdered it on one of my [...]
Got a really nice note from the Norbertine Nuns in California, who thanked me for mentioning their wreaths, which are selling gangbusters, according to the Abbess. Have any of you ordered any? I am curious to know what you think, because the Boy Scout troop we usually buy ours from is selling popcorn instead of [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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