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 Lent, Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2012
Well, it’s Ash Wednesday, thanks, thanks be to God! We head into forty days of intentional slowing-down, of being more prayerful, more thoughtful, less reactive. I don’t know about you, but I totally need some Lenten silence, discipline and turning away from the world, especially the world of politics right now. If you’re not sure [...]
Posted in Blogs and Blogging, Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2012
I do believe Brandon Vogt may be one of the busiest, most focused young men-with-a-mission I’ve ever seen. Brandon is the author of the very well-received and widely read The Church and New Media, and a journalist who, like our Pat Gohn and Tony Rossi, has a knack for conducting great interviews (I do believe [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2012
My First Things column from today: Through its mouthpieces, the administration has already begun to argue that “an institution does not have a conscience.” This is utter nonsense. The missions of the church are predicated on conscience, and conscience and mission feed and build upon one another. Conscience is what sent Catholic religious women to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2012
Andrew Klavan so often says precisely what I think, and here he nails it; the left’s obsession with always needing to be perceived as “cool” has played a large part in our undoing, because the culture has adopted that mindset. The government, the media and academia are all in the clutches of perpetual 14 year-olds [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 20th, 2012
From Charles Kadlec at Forbes, the must read of the day! Before our very eyes, President Obama is on the verge of establishing the principle that the right to religious freedom comes not from our Creator, but from those who rule us. A government endowed right granted to women now trumps our unalienable right to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 19th, 2012
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 16th, 2012
In 2009 Ignatius press released this prophetic little volume, written by our pope over 1969-1970 — while the world was in the first throes of the social revolution. I thought I’d share a few of Joseph Ratzinger’s prescient thoughts. They seem timely: “The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2012
Some may remember that back in November, Mrs. Pelosi proclaimed her love for the church but noted regretfully, “they have this conscience thing”. And it is really getting in the way of where she thinks society should be. Thus, the move to dismantle the Catholic conscience — or at least to redefine it as a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2012
The vacationing Deacon Greg Kandra has still managed, between spending time with Mickey and Minnie to post this interesting piece by Dave Gibson, who has written an informative article about what I called my First Things piece, yesterday, the “nuances between direct and indirect co-operation with evil”. Gibson does his usual brilliant job in expanding [...]
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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