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2017-03-02T21:04:16+00:00

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Pastor Louie Giglio and the Chill Wind of Correctness

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 9:04 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

(image courtesy of Shutterstock.com) Considering the wide media attention accompanying the announcement that laywoman Myrlie Evers-Williams and Atlanta-based preacher Louie Giglio would offer prayers at President Obama’s upcoming inaugural, Giglio’s withdrawal from the podium just two days later garnered little notice outside of Evangelical circles, but it is a story that deserves some attention. So, I’m talking about it over at First Things: For Pastor Louie Giglio, a frequent visitor to the Obama White House in 2012, an invitation to... Read more

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2017-03-02T21:04:31+00:00

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Elite Women Do Not See This Abortion Reality – UPDATE

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 9:04 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

(photosource) Recall that the only reason we ever heard about monster-abortionist/baby-feet collecting Kertmit Gosnell was because of an investigation into drug charges. Absent that investigation, we’d never have known about the filth, incompetence and reckless disregard for human life that comprised his profitable “services” to “women in need.” And here, again, we discover abortion mill squalor, only because of a peripheral investigation: the Muskegon Fire Department has posted closure notices on the Women’s Medical Services in Muskegon, Michigan, and boarded... Read more

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Culture of Life/Death

Vocation Awareness Week

2017-03-02T21:04:34+00:00

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SkyDaddy Bloomberg Takes a liking to Playing Deity UPDATED

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 9:04 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

A couple of winters ago, I slipped on the ice and needed x-rays. Came home with three days worth of pain pills. A few months ago my son had an accident, needed x-rays and came home with three days worth of pain pills. No over-prescription, here. But apparently New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg perceives painkillers as being too-available, and he needs to control it. And if you have to suffer so he can feel better about things, well, that’s... Read more

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2015-03-13T00:30:42+00:00

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Pillar of Cloud, Water of Life: All of a Healing Piece & Peace

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:30 am By Elizabeth Scalia

For a little while longer, we are still in Christmas, but every day the mysteries of the season seem to wither a little, like the leaves of the poinsettias; the expectation of Advent seems far away, and in just a few days we celebrate the Baptism of the Lord, and enter — with some sense of refreshment, because after a time we long for the comforts of what is routine and regular — into Ordinary Time. The Baptism of the... Read more

2017-03-02T21:04:38+00:00

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Bill Clinton Father of the Year? Well, Okay, but…

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 9:04 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

So, Bill Clinton has been named Father of the Year by the National Father’s Day Council. Really? Okay, normally, I wouldn’t care about this or give it a second thought, but I’ll bite. Why this father of a single child (who is now over 30 years old, married and presumably on her own) and why now? Actually, I am not even interested in the answer. But it seems to me someone like this father, Robbie Parker, might have been a... Read more

Bride at every wedding...

2015-06-02T23:56:13+00:00

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The Paradoxical Meanness of the Minimum Wage

Last updated on: June 2, 2015 at 11:56 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Over at dotcommonweal, Paul Moses links to this Bloomberg piece on the pay gap between McDonald’s CEO and a Counterman, and I urge you to read both the article and Moses’ blogpost. The issue of pay disparities between the CEO of any company and it’s “front end” employees is one of those fights I leave to others, like Moses; I am never sure if people are seriously suggesting there should be no difference, salary-wise, between them, or if they’re just... Read more

2017-03-02T21:04:39+00:00

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A Papal Validation from @Pontifex on Twitter

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 9:04 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

Those who think that Pope Benedict XVI is engaged in mere schtick by making an occasional tweet during a papal audience should think again. If we believe that the Holy Spirit can use all things to God’s purposes — even the most confounding things in the most surprising ways — there is no reason to think that twitter will not be used thusly. The Holy Spirit can do anything. It can even make a tweet generated by a pope, and... Read more

2017-03-02T21:04:42+00:00

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No Room for God in this “Adoration of the Magi”

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 9:04 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

I really like the way Simcha Fisher analyzes this painting, “The Adoration of the Magi” by Tai-Shan Shierenberg. Is it a problem that these “Magi” are not kings or wise men, that they’re not even all men, that they don’t have historically accurate clothes or hair, or that they don’t show any signs of bearing gifts or of having traveled afar? Not necessarily. These departures from more traditional art may irritate or perplex you, but they aren’t enough, in themselves,... Read more

2017-03-02T21:04:53+00:00

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Give Obama a Break on Hiring Women!

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 9:04 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

So, here is the NY Times raising a confused eyebrow at the dearth of female hires in the Obama White House: …Mr. Obama’s recent nominations raised concern that women were being underrepresented at the highest level of government and would be passed over for top positions. […] “It’s not so much about checking a box, like on a census form,” said Tracy Sefl, a Democratic political consultant in Washington. “It’s about the qualitative properties that the candidate takes to the... Read more

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Women in Binders

2017-03-02T21:04:55+00:00

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Failing…in love again

Last updated on: March 2, 2017 at 9:04 pm By Elizabeth Scalia

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment, and so one who fears is not yet perfect in love.” – First reading at Mass, from 1 John 4:17-18 (Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com) As Popeye would say, “well, blow me down.” I fail at love all the time — grievously — and when I consider how often that failure is connected to fear, I have to say, this is pretty... Read more

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