Elizabeth Scalia
Posted in The Fourth Estate, Uncategorized on Feb 23rd, 2012
I couldn’t believe the headline so I had to see it for myself and yeah, Chris Matthews actually said this: “There are a number of people who have chosen to convert to the Catholic faith because they don”t like the liberal positions taken by their sectarian groups,” said Matthews, “that’s a fact, you can write [...]
Posted in The Fourth Estate on Feb 13th, 2012
I have my own thoughts about last Friday’s “accomodation” by the White House and the HHS, but I am saving those for my First Things column, tomorrow, so here is what has developed over the weekend on that front: Law Prof William Jacobson remembers the “odd” debate question: Remember when George Stephanopoulos, at the New [...]
Posted in 'Remaking' America, The Fourth Estate, Timothy Dolan on Feb 10th, 2012
Rocco Palmo at Whispers in the Loggia has it: BISHOPS STUDYING INITIAL WHITE HOUSE MOVEMENT ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY *New opportunity to dialogue with executive branch, obtain details ::: *Too soon to tell whether and how much improvement on core concerns::: *Commitment to religious liberty for all means legislation still necessary::: The United States Conference of [...]
Posted in The Fourth Estate, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2012
This morning I wrote what I had anticipated in the Obama “accommodation” and the reaction. I expect President Obama will come out and say something that sounds wonderful and conciliatory and that seems reasonable to people who are eager to reconcile with the president and give themselves permission to vote for him again in November. [...]
Posted in The Fourth Estate on Feb 5th, 2012
Michael Gerson: you may be tempted to dismiss it as hyperbole, but he makes a strong argument that, with his HHS mandate (which, his Press Secretary Jay Carney has confirmed, he will not subject to further review) a strong argument that Obama has declared war on all religion. Read it all, but if you haven’t [...]
Posted in Serving up hot links, The Fourth Estate, The Pelosi, The Perpetual Adolescents, Uncategorized on Feb 4th, 2012
Charlotte Hays writes at the Register that the Komen decision was about a Planned Parenthood shakedown: “What happened this week was nothing short of a mafia shakedown by Planned Parenthood of the Komen Foundation,” said Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute, a New York and Washington, D.C.-based research association that [...]
Posted in Obama Good?, The Fourth Estate, Uncategorized on Feb 3rd, 2012
In just about 24 hours the “non-political” billion-dollar entity known as Planned Parenthood — which does not itself do mammograms, despite how ABC News frames it — managed to leak the news that the Susan G. Komen Foundation would no longer be contributing $700,000 dollars to its coffers, get the two stupidest women in the [...]
Posted in The Fourth Estate, Timothy Dolan, Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2012
Well, I must admit, given how CNN has gone out of its way to pretend there is no such thing as a connection between President Obama and the teachings/trainings of Saul Alinksy, I was surprised to see the Obama-Alinsky connection being made in a Catholic UK paper. Discussing the HHS’s decision to compel church-related employers [...]
Posted in The Fourth Estate on Jan 24th, 2012
Photosource: telecare Katrina Fernandez has pictures from yesterday’s March for Life, and she promises that more are coming. Watching yesterday on EWTN, I heard estimates of nearly half-million people marching peacefully and cheerfully, in the freezing rain, in support of life, which is — at its core, as Tim Muldoon writes — a march in [...]
Posted in The Fourth Estate, The Perpetual Adolescents, Uncategorized on Jan 20th, 2012
If you did not see the standing ovation given Newt Gingrich when went “smackdown” on John King during last night’s debate, here it is: I came to the debate a few minutes late so I didn’t see it live. At the end of the debate, when CNN replayed “highlights” the standing-O wasn’t included (it certainly [...]
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.
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