Elizabeth Scalia
Posted in Timothy Dolan, Uncategorized on Feb 14th, 2012
Literally bleary with fever last night, boxing metaphors came tumbling out of my brain and into my column over at First Things: To that end, the White House seemed to have conferred not with the concerned Bishops but with members of the “Catholic Left” whose criticism of his original plans had had a weighty effect [...]
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 Blogs and Blogging, Interwebz, Timothy Dolan, Uncategorized on Jan 31st, 2012
Hot off the cyber-presses! Notre Dame University’s Institute for Catholic Living today launches a new online journal: Church Life; A Journal for the New Evangelization There are a whole bunch of interesting writers in there, including Cardinal-designate Archbishop Timothy Dolan (writing on “The Dignity of the Human Person”, page 39), Fr. Jeremy Driscoll, OSB, (page [...]
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 Timothy Dolan, Uncategorized on Jan 12th, 2012
Over at Word on Fire Ministries, Rozann Carter notes a Mormon celebrity putting his career on hold to make a two-year “mission” and wonders why Catholics don’t have a similar mechanism in place to encourage religious vocations: I don’t agree with the theology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Nor am [...]
Posted in 'Remaking' America, Timothy Dolan on Nov 29th, 2011
We don’t often picture God has having a longing for our sake; the image is too startling and goes against the idea of God’s omnipotence. Most people would reject an image of God, like a parent watching from a distance, hoping we’ll make the right decisions, the best decisions — grounded in his realities — [...]
Posted in Fr. James Martin, Timothy Dolan, Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2011
A couple of weeks ago, I noted that Mayor Mike Bloomberg was inviting neither clergy nor First Responders to the 9/11 Memorial service in NYC. I thought public outcry might move the mule, but without any push from mainstream media, he is comfortably sticking to his guns. No clergy, no prayer, and there’s no room [...]
Posted in Dowd, Here and Queer, The Fourth Estate, The Perpetual Adolescents, Timothy Dolan on Jun 29th, 2011
I really want to stop writing about her but Maureen Dowd’s extended adolescence just attracts my morbid curiosity, and next thing I know, I have an urge to fisk. Writing on NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, she’s just so irresistibly herself: “It’s troubling for me as a Catholic to be at odds with the church,” he [...]
Posted in Timothy Dolan on Mar 19th, 2011
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, who shared with moving honesty the story of his encounter with an angry Catholic here will be featured tomorrow night on 60 minutes. Even though 60 minutes starts the same time as In the Arena (the real one, not Spitzer’s) that’s one episode I will be sure to watch. Asked if he [...]
Posted in "Remaking" Ourselves, American Genius, Benedict XVI, Catholicism, Celibacy, Crisis & Opportunity, Critical Thinking, Crucible of Faith, Culture of Life/Death, Timothy Dolan, TSA, TV/Pop Culture/Music on Nov 23rd, 2010
With a title like that, what else could I be talking about but my Tuesday column: I had been driven to the crucifix because I had become overwhelmed with the media/internet cacophony that had followed L’Osservatore Romano’s weekend revelation of Pope Benedict XVI’s thoughts on the use of condoms in certain situations, and by the [...]
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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