Elizabeth Scalia
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 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 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 [...]
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 Obama Bad?, Uncategorized on Feb 13th, 2012
Sure and it begins to feel like Grandad’s auld sod, what with the elites getting comfortable with the notion of telling us what we can and cannot do, what business we may or may not conduct, what materials we can or cannot own…because we’re Catholics. Over at NPR’s Bench Memos Ryan T. Anderson ponders illegalities [...]
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 The Fourth Estate, Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2012
This morning I wrote what I had anticipated in the Obama “accommodation” and the reaction. I expect President Obama will come out and say something that sounds wonderful and conciliatory and that seems reasonable to people who are eager to reconcile with the president and give themselves permission to vote for him again in November. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 10th, 2012
UPDATE::: Read Bishops first and second responses::: From Jake Tapper at ABC News, Obama to Announce Contraception Rule ‘Accommodation’ for Religious Organizations: With the White House under fire for its new rule requiring employers including religious organizations to offer health insurance that fully covers birth control coverage, at 12:15 p.m. ET, President Obama will announce [...]
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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