Elizabeth Scalia
A couple of winters ago, I slipped on the ice and needed x-rays. Came home with three days worth of pain pills. A few months ago my son had an accident, needed x-rays and came home with three days worth of pain pills. No over-prescription, here. But apparently New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg perceives [...]
Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com An important piece by Judith Shulevitz, focusing on the unforeseen effects of having children at a later age: …The Nature study ended by saying that the greater number of older dads could help to explain the 78 percent rise in autism cases over the past decade. Researchers have suspected links between [...]
If I were not already feeling sick this story found by Mark Shea would get me there. Mark calls it a “monstrous evil” and he is correct — this is nanny-statism and bureaucracy out-of-control, and it’s only going to get worse: Even after Marie Freyre died alone in a nursing home 250 miles from the [...]
Some of you may remember that about six months ago my son’s fiance “Kitty” dealt with a burst appendix and many complications. She’s been having increasing pain and discomfort for the past few days, and today it reached the point where she really couldn’t function, so they are waiting for doctors to tell them whether [...]
Chuck Colson is in grave condition after suffering a brain hemorrhage Evangelical leader and frequent life and family spokesman Chuck Colson is in critical condition in hospital after undergoing surgery this weekend. He was hospitalized Friday after enduring a brain hemorrhage while speaking in Virginia at the Wilberforce Conference. Colson underwent surgery on Saturday morning [...]
(Photo: Marc Stamas/Getty Images) Wow, she still looks very beautiful, and I really like her attitude: “People complain about parts for women, people complain about getting old,” she says. “It’s a privilege to get old.” The New York Magazine piece is a good, and quick, read; I found Bergen’s revelation about her stroke to be [...]
Great news via Glenn Reynolds, who does a great job of keeping us all informed on successful therapies related to stem cells. This time, it’s Fracture Putty: Broken bones can mean weeks of having to wear a cast and the muscle atrophy that comes with that. More severe breaks can take months to mend, result [...]
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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