Gay Marriage, Hate Speech, Good Lord!

June 12, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Tuesday, June 12, 2007, 4:06 PM Let’s put this in chronological order, shall we? Primo: The dispute began in January 2003, when the two Oakland employees created a subgroup at their workplace called the “Good News Employee Association.” It was partly in response to a group of homosexual employees having formed their own group 10 months before and being given access to the city e-mail system. One e-mail, dated Oct. 11, 2002, invited city employees to participate in “National Coming-Out... Read more

Olive Oil as anti-inflammatory? Granny knew!

June 11, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Every once in a while I get these things in my email – I’m sure you get them, too – blaring headlines announcing new medical discoveries that will change your life. The discovery usually involves something like “drinking water” in a therapeutic manner, which they’ll be glad to share with you for a low monthly fee… Sometimes, though, one such notice will catch my eye, because Granny, Auntie Lillie, The Other Nonna and many other of my elder female relatives... Read more

Is Tony Soprano dead or alive?

June 11, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

I didn’t see the show but apparently some folks are unhappy with the ambiguous ending. Who walked through the door? Meadow or a hitman? Did the whole family get whacked or do they live to carry on as ever – conflicted, suspicious, always slightly on edge? I think I like the ambiguity of it, but it probably would have been just as satisfying for some to see the whole family taken out, which I’m going to assume is what happened,... Read more

Tony Blair to become Catholic Deacon?

June 10, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

There’s talk afloat that when he leaves office, Tony Blair may not simply become a Catholic, but that he may become a Permanent Deacon, as well: Tony Blair has discussed becoming a Roman Catholic deacon when he quits office. The revelation comes as he prepares to meet the Pope amid speculation that he will use the audience in the Vatican to announce his conversion. In his last foreign engagement, just days before he leaves Downing Street for the final time,... Read more

Scouting in Baghdad. Yes, Baghdad.

June 10, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Amid death and chaos, the Scouts revive an idea of fun for children Armed with rakes and wheelbarrows, a group of Iraqi Scouts and Guides is clearing a patch of Baghdad woodland. For many it is their first “normal” outing with friends in more than four years of violence. The concrete bunker and taped cordon that guard them from unexploded bombs give this Scout camp a slightly edgier feel to jamborees in Britain, where a grazed knee or getting lost... Read more

A lovely sort of gift

June 9, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

When linking to this wonderful live Adoration site, which I’d mentioned here, a site provided by the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters, I noticed they have a new link whereby you can pay for the flowers they use to decorate the altar, in remembrance of someone, or in Thanksgiving for something, or for your own intention, or someone else’s. The notice reads: Flowers for the Altar Altar flowers for the week of Sunday, June 03, 2007 are for the special intentions... Read more

“So, Loser, where’s Part III?”

June 8, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Part III is partially written (go here and here if you don’t know what I mean) – I got jammed up yesterday and couldn’t finish it, and with the death of the immigration bill I’ll necessarily have to re-think where I wanted to go with it. Some appointments this morning will delay that. But I can make a quick observation… Remember when the Democrats won in November, and some of us said, “well, okay, maybe now that they’ve gotten control... Read more

Corpus Christi; The Body of Christ, Amen

June 7, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

Greg Kandra is the editor of Couric & Co, the blog associated with the CBS Evening News broadcast. He is also a recently-ordained Deacon in the Catholic Church, and how lucky is the parish in Forest Hills, Queens, to have so talented a wordsmith, and so faithful a servant of God and man, preaching from the Ambo. This Sunday they will feast on this bounty: First Reading: Gen 14:18-20, Melchizedek bringing bread and wine and blessing Abram Then Psalm 110... Read more

Rethinking Scooter Libby’s pardon

June 7, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

You know, the other day I wrote, that President Bush should just pardon Scooter Libby, already. Then Ed Morrissey wrote that while he had no problem with a pardon, we should be respectful of the fact that a jury weighed the evidence and found him guilty…and I thought, “Ed’s right in that. If we’re going to respect the rule of law, we have to take a jury’s verdict with some seriousness, even if we don’t like that verdict.” He’s written... Read more

Quote of the week from Mrs. Hayden

June 5, 2007 By Elizabeth Scalia

“The woman sitting in front of us was very upset and asked me how I could just sit there reading,” Katie Hayden said. “Bob’s been shot at. He’s been stabbed. He’s taken knives away. He knows how to handle those situations. I figured he would go up there and step on somebody’s neck, and that would be the end of it. I knew how that situation would end. I didn’t know how the book would end.” From Blackfive, here’s some... Read more