Elizabeth Scalia
Photo by Bob Mullen/The Catholic Photographer/NY Daily News In my First Things column, today, I find the silver lining behind the cloud of this administration’s assault on the constitutional right to Freedom of Religion. To be sure, this situation is cause for concern, but there are some bright spots in all of this. Although the [...]
Deacon Greg’s homily for this weekend is especially good, and powerfully useful, I think: In the gospel, when the men who want to follow Jesus ask him where he is staying, he doesn’t give them a direct answer. “Come,” he says, “and you will see.” On one level, he’s inviting them to follow him. But [...]
So, former WH press secretary Robert Gibbs apparently tussled with Obama’s seeming mother-substitute Valerie Jarrett, and he was very rude to the woman, in discussing First Lady Michelle Obama. This cartoon has foul-language (you’re warned) but depicts what seems to have gone down. Well, I’m not surprised that Gibbs tussled with Jarrett. Gibbs, after all, [...]
Robert Reich–claiming “no inside information”–spells why he believes/recommends that Hillary Clinton and Joe “Boom-boom” Biden should trade places: Why do I say this? Because Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of a Democratic base that’s been disillusioned with his cave-ins to regressive Republicans. Hillary Clinton on the ticket can do that. Moreover, the [...]
Last year I mused over at First Things about Vienna, and how it had seemed, when I visited, to be vasishing before my eyes: A few years ago I had occasion to spend a few days in Vienna. The beautiful city of museums and music remains a favorite but a forlorn one; its charming avenues [...]
I happened to be looking for an old post which seems to have been lost in my moves, but while searching I a link to this headline from 2006: U.S. Economy: Growth May Slow From 5.3% Annual Rate (Update4) U.S. economic growth rose at an annual rate of 5.3 percent in the first quarter, slower [...]
Reading the always-terrific John Allen the other day, I found myself miffed at the notion that some Vatican-watchers think our hard-working Benedict XVI is not engaged enough — is in fact, a “part-time Pope”. At the end of John Paul’s reign, Politi writes, the papacy was widely understood to play these unique roles: “Respected interlocutor [...]
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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