Elizabeth Scalia
Katrina Fernandez, writing passionately and from the heart, with a message to unmarried pregnant women who think they can’t possibly handle being a single parent: Financially, you may argue, it will be impossible to raise a child alone. You’d be surprised how little a child really needs. All that baby stuff, you don’t need it. [...]
Madonna del Parto [detail] by Piero della Francesca (c. 1460) A nicely done piece by Kathryn Jean Lopez at The Catholic Thing: He will have the most amazing set of lungs.” Paul Stefan James lived for only forty-two minutes – with a heartbeat, but never taking a breath. It seemed like a cruel coincidence that [...]
(Photo: Saturday Evening Post) Yesterday I linked to several stories that outlined the growing tension between our government and our churches. Today at Patheos, two more perspectives: Russell Shaw declares The Persecution of Religion has Begun and explains: “Don’t think I’m making the wild-eyed claim that this new persecution either is or ever is likely [...]
One of the stupidest political remarks I ever heard came from Ben Affleck, who — campaigning for Hillary Clinton during her 2000 senate run — declared that a vote for her opponent, Rick Lazio, would amount to a vote (I am paraphrasing) “to bring back Irish Need Not Apply signs in the workplace.” It does [...]
I remember having sex-ed in junior high school, 1971. So, now we’ve had 4 decades — forty years — of sex education in the public schools, which was supposed to teach kids, among other things, about contraception and “responsible, safe” sex. Sex education was supposed to “prevent unplanned pregnancies” and in that sense was supposed [...]
Sister Mary Ann Walsh, Writing at the USCCB Media Blog: There seems to be a new unwritten reg at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It’s the ABC Rule, Anybody But Catholics. It showed up in a letter from HHS’s Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to advise the United States Conference of [...]
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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