Elizabeth Scalia
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 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 The Fourth Estate on Feb 13th, 2012
I have my own thoughts about last Friday’s “accomodation” by the White House and the HHS, but I am saving those for my First Things column, tomorrow, so here is what has developed over the weekend on that front: Law Prof William Jacobson remembers the “odd” debate question: Remember when George Stephanopoulos, at the New [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2012
Found this floating around twitter; wish I knew who to credit. As concerns the Obamacare HHS Mandate forcing religious entities to pay for insurances covering employee sterilization, contraception and abortifacients, the more worn-out and tired non-thinking, knee-jerk phrase I’ve encountered this week in my email or in various comboxes and more than a few op-ed [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 9th, 2012
(Photo by Sergio Dionisio/Getty) Well, slap my face and call me Sally, what a surprise to read this in a secular paper, where Michael Brendan Dougherty and Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry write: Painting the Catholic Church as “out of touch” is like shooting fish in a barrel, what with the funny hats and gilded churches. And nothing [...]
Posted in 'Remaking' America on Feb 8th, 2012
Found over at New Advent (which you should be visiting every day!) there is this headline: Anonymous White House sources: Sebelius led fight for contraception edict, while VP Biden warned Obama about backlash from Catholic voters….. President Barack Obama ended months of internal White House debate by siding with a group of mostly female advisers [...]
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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