Breaking: OSV, Notre Dame, Others File Lawsuit -UPDATED

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 10:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Our Sunday Visitor announced this minutes ago: At 11 a.m. Eastern time today, 43 Catholic dioceses and organizations — including Our Sunday Visitor and the University of Notre Dame — filed religious liberty lawsuits against the federal government in a dozen different jurisdictions around the country. At issue are regulations that require Catholic organizations, employers and insurers to provide or facilitate abortion-inducing drugs, sterilization and contraception — in violation of their consciences. Equally troubling is the extreme narrowness of the... Read more

What An Extraordinary Talent

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 10:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

The repaint on this Holly Golightly doll is most impressive to me — it went from a standard-looking doll’s face to a clear and beautiful representation of Audrey Hepburn. Arwen is pretty remarkable, too — but they’re all really terrific. What a gift; what a fun way to make a living! Check it out! Read more

Pelosi’s failure leads Dowd to Cuomo, again

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 5:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Got an email from someone asking me to respond to this rant by Maureen Dowd, about the horrible, rotten, no-good, very bad, “un-catholic” Church. Dowd has demonstrated that she really doesn’t understand much about Catholicism and its unending, beautifully nuanced and constant move toward God’s ever-present “Yes” — a fundamentally sophisticated and paradoxical means toward true freedom. As with many other issues, she has completely bought into the arrested-adolescent perspective, which can only perceive the church as a numbing “no.”... Read more

Acknowledging Our Faithful Gay Priests Might be a Start – UPDATE

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 10:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Over at First Things, Joshua Gonnerman brings a provocative title: Dan Savage was Right. Relax. He doesn’t argue that Savage was right to call the bible “bullshit”, but Gonnerman does write: Savage is of course wrong to refer to the Bible as bullshit. It is the prime document of the Christian faith, inspired by the Holy Spirit, and treasured by the churches throughout the ages. Only in Scripture can we encounter Christ and through him reach towards divinization, and the... Read more

Quick Reminder:

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 10:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

I am essentially offline and working on another project (or trying to… ). Although I am occasionally posting, comments will remain closed until June, as I have no time to moderate. I would appreciate any spare prayers you having going unused… Read more

War on Women Propaganda

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 10:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

All wars have their propaganda I must say, I like this salvo — a clever video put out by the Susan B. Anthony List: I especially like the closing line: “Tell President Obama to respect a woman’s choice to practice her beliefs…not his.” And you can do that here. In other news, DC Bishop Donald Wuerl is trying some pastoral instruction on Georgetown. My bet is Georgetown won’t be listening. I am more than ever convinced that schism within the... Read more

“Putting Love where there is no love”

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 10:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Tony Rossi has today’s must read. Read more

Pity the President – UPDATE

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 10:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

He is such a small and insecure man: The Heritage Foundation’s Rory Cooper tweeted that Obama had casually dropped his own name into Ronald Reagan’s official biography on www.whitehouse.gov, claiming credit for taking up the mantle of Reagan’s tax reform advocacy with his “Buffett Rule” gimmick. My first thought was, he must be joking. But he wasn’t—it turns out Obama has added bullet points bragging about his own accomplishments to the biographical sketches of every single U.S. president since Calvin... Read more

When Marriage is an “Office” Not a “Right”

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 10:39 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Over at First Things, I’m wondering if perhaps we have been thinking about marriage, and about all of our roles as human beings, in the wrong way. What if we thought about life in terms of Office; can we comprehend equality — all quite natural and unforced — then? While all offices are equal, the Office of Marriage is one of especial humility and sacrifice. The essentials of procreation residing within us are so powerful that unless one ardently works... Read more

Let Government Certify and Churches Sanctify – UPDATE

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 5:28 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Last week before I left for this “working-vacation” I repeated an idea I’ve brought for years: “. . . the churches should reconsider their roles in authenticating marriage. Governments issue birth certificates; churches issue baptismal certificates. Governments issue death certificates; churches pray the funerals. Governments issue divorces; Churches annul. Both work within their separate and necessary spheres, serving the corporeal and the spiritual. It is only in the issue of marriage that church and state have commingled authority. That should... Read more