He wonders what nuclear weapons will mean for Islam. A fascinating read. One to print out and ponder.
Elizabeth Scalia
He wonders what nuclear weapons will mean for Islam. A fascinating read. One to print out and ponder.
John Stephenson has a video up of this Phelps-Roper woman spewing her disgusting “bible-based” rhetoric. Watching just a bare minute of it made tremble, not in fear of the Lord, as this woman might like, but in pure revulsion. I transcribed a little: “‘Sempre Fi Fags’ means, ‘you are always faithful to the fags…’ not [...]
I’m taking this story with a grain of salt, and I’d advise everyone else to, also, given that there is only one source and I don’t know how good that source is. “Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine,” Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. Edward’s University on [...]
I know this is a very “Catholic” way to look at things, and also a little too supernatural for some. Indulge me, please. All parts of the US government, every president since Carter – yes, even President Reagan – played down the aggressions of the islamofascists for 30 years. For thirty years, we’ve watched endless [...]
This is very troubling. If you can’t win elections the right way, change the rules. The question of how we elect a president is up for debate again, with advocates of a majoritarian philosophy having invented a new device for moving to a direct popular vote for the chief executive. Rather than going through the [...]
Michelle Malkin and Gateway Pundit both have excellent posts up in support of Yemeni journalists Muhammad al-Asadi, who dared to publish the infamous “insulting cartoons” and is now marked for death. Michelle explains that al-Asadi had published the cartoons in a responsible manner, showing editorial disapproval of them even as he published them in order [...]
So, as I was leaving on Friday, this story was breaking: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, deliberately drove a rented Jeep Cherokee into the Pit area outside the Student Union, hitting nine people just before noon, police say. Six people suffered minor injuries; three others declined to be treated. He’s mad at America. He’s mad at [...]
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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