Elizabeth Scalia
(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 [...]
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 [...]
UPDATE II: Steven D. Greydanus spells it out: Sure enough, in a press conference this afternoon, press secretary Jay Carney reaffirmed Obama’s commitment to the HHS mandate as it stands, though he declined to comment on whether the president would override a veto promised by Republican leadership. We are committed, the president is committed, to [...]
Deacon Keith Fournier has reprinted (by permission) a letter sent by Doug Kmiec, the CUA professor of law who worked passionately to elect Obama because he believed — reasonably or un, and I have always thought “un” — that Senator Obama’s 100% NARAL approval rating would ultimately end up serving life. The letter (and this [...]
In just about 24 hours the “non-political” billion-dollar entity known as Planned Parenthood — which does not itself do mammograms, despite how ABC News frames it — managed to leak the news that the Susan G. Komen Foundation would no longer be contributing $700,000 dollars to its coffers, get the two stupidest women in the [...]
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 [...]
Diane at is Te-Deum blog is breaking the news: The Obama Administration has mandated that all food stores in the United States selling refrigerated goods, MUST sell beef! There is an exemption for vegetarians who only employ, and sell their goods to, vegetarians; and, for vegans who only employ, and sell their goods to, vegans. [...]
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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