Elizabeth Scalia
SCA looks at justice and finds that while just, it is often not a cause for joy. That God himself hushed the celebrating angels in the face of his own justice. When God saw that the Israelites were celebrating and dancing, he rebukes them. Says God, “How dare you dance while my children are dying!” [...]
I am not sure where, in my meanderings, I picked this up over the last day or so, but it’s really good. In 1998, on the 30th anniversary of the issuance of Pope Paul VI’s encyclical letter Humanae Vitae Archbishop Chaput (pronounced Shap-pew) wrote a pastoral letter that truly teaches and clarifies. In an age [...]
Before you read this little tantrum, let me translate it for you: Please, please PLEASE say that everything the church has said for 2000 years is WRONG??? Please??? Awww…We’ll be your friend! Please? Aw, why won’t you? It’s just gonna dimantle your church, a little, well, maybe more than a little but…but at least you’ll [...]
Down in this thread David Justus wrote a thoughtful commentary, at one point wondering if the negative effects of abortion on the body (I was writing specifically about “chi” or “energy”) would be similar in the case of a miscarriage or spontaneous abortion. Clearly, the energetic (whatever you want to call it) effects on a [...]
Pharmicists are coming under fire for refusing to fill prescriptions for the “morning after” pill. It is a matter of conscience. While ordinary birth control pills prevent ovulation, the morning after pill prevents implantation of a created embryo and may therefore be considered – literally – an easy abortion. Illinois Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich has [...]
I like him best when he’s writing about baseball, but these are two good ones. The first is a exposition (with help by George Weigel) of the slow and steady suicide of Europe. Will blames secularism, and makes a good case. Europe itself is withering. On the day of John Paul II’s funeral, the European [...]
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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