Dolan Meets Colbert!
September 7, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
The Event: His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan faces off with His Truthiness Stephen Colbert, moderated by James Martin, SJThe Date: Friday, September 14 - Feast of the Triumph of the CrossThe Place: Fordham UniversityWonderful Illustration By: Fordham Student Tim LueckeYes, I'm going! I can't wait! I do so wish this was being televised, though. Seems like it would be great, impactful live tv! … [Read More...]
“We will not be welcomed by the likes of YOU!” – UPDATED
September 6, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
For crying out loud, Democrats? How insecure are you?If you're secure enough in what you believe -- if you're certain that you have a premium on the truth -- then what's so threatening about these welcome baskets that you can't accept them with a little good grace, say "thank you" and then enjoy the pralines and throw the literature away, if you don't like it?This reminds me of that silly female professor who had to leave a talk by Larry Summers because the poor shrinking violet … [Read More...]
St. Teresa of Avila and New Media
September 6, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
In the mail today comes a paperback copy of Father James Martin's book, Between Heaven and Mirth, and since I liked it so well when I read it the first time, I flipped through it again over lunch, and re-discovered this quote from St. Teresa of Avila:“From silly devotions and sour-faced … [Read More...]
Cleverest Remark on DNC and Clinton
September 6, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
Yesterday, the DNC had to pretend it had a 2/3 vote to assert that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and for the inclusion of the phrase, "God-given gifts" into their national platform, because three attempts to vote couldn't bring it. Whether it was the "God" language or the "Jerusalem" language … [Read More...]
By the Waters of Babylon
September 6, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
Russian female choir "Sirin" performs Biblical psalm #136* in ancient Russian traditional orthodox style. From the french documentary "Le Silence des anges - Terres et voix de l'Orient orthodoxe" (by Olivier Mille et Jean-François Colosimo, France - Belgique, 1999) (H/T)By the rivers of … [Read More...]
Twin Baby Girls Dancing to Guitar
September 6, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
This kills me, from the moment they turn to each other and make eye contact until the dancing ends! … [Read More...]
God not “booed” but DNC Policies and Smarts Unclear
September 5, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
After the Democrats made a hasty move to restore God and a policy about Jerusalem into their national platform, from which they'd earlier been expunged, I see a lot of headlines (and tweets) about this video, and describing convention attendees as "booing God and Jerusalem."If, in fact, that's … [Read More...]
The Summer’s Darkling Rain
September 5, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
Throughout the summer, but particularly for the past five weeks, I have sat at my desk and watched the noontime summer brightness grow dim and become tinged with yellow-green, until finally the light has faded enough to tempt the streetlamps, and the tree in my backyard has drooped its arms from the … [Read More...]
Tales of Women, Sex and Salvation
September 5, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
Image courtesy of Shutterstock.comTwo Patheos bloggers are talking seriously about women and sex today, both from very different perspectives, both worth reading.At Rebecca Hamilton's blog Public Catholic, she has turned her space over to a guest blogger willing to share a harrowing story of … [Read More...]
Ka Loke: A Song Sweet and Lovely!
September 5, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
One of my favorite songs from the soundtrack from The Descendants . Dennis Pavao and the Makaha Sons, singing Ka Loke. Just so lovely and sweet! … [Read More...]
Idols Come in Many Forms; Facebook Feeds Them – UPDATED
September 4, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
My column at First Things this week takes yet another stab at discussing the idols some of us are (of have in the past) made of our ideologies, and how damaging it is becoming to our mental and social health, and more importantly to our spirits:In 2012, there are still some puffs of … [Read More...]
“An Experiment in Catholic Old Media”
September 3, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
I'm going to write more about the Catholic New Media Conference a bit later, but this is one part of the conference that I just need to give a space of its own.You know what these conferences are like, right? There's a thousand people milling about, and after a while one feels lost amid a sea of … [Read More...]
Labor Day Thought from Houselander
September 3, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
"Sometimes it may seem to us that there is no purpose in our lives, that going day after day for years to this office or that school or factory is nothing else but waste and weariness. But it may be that God has sent us there because but for us Christ would not be there. If our being there means … [Read More...]
I’m gone to Dallas for the CNMC!
August 29, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
Hey there folks, blogging will be light (but I will never say "non-existent") while I am attending the Catholic New Media Conference in Dallas, where I will be a lesser light amongst such major-league hitters as Bishop Christopher Coyne, Brandon Vogt, Jennifer Fulwiler, Lisa Hendey, Fr. Roderick … [Read More...]
Dolan to offer closing prayer at Democrat Convention: Hyperventilation Continues. UPDATED
August 28, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
Via First Things:Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, has accepted an invitation to deliver the closing prayer at next week’s Democratic National Convention. As was previously announced, he will also be offering the closing prayer at the Republican Convention on Thursday of this … [Read More...]
“I do my little part, and God did the rest.”
August 28, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
For those who have been wondering why Rocco Palmo's Whispers in the Loggia has been so quiet, recently -- and I know you have been wondering, because some of you have been emailing me asking if I "know" anything -- the answer is finally revealed and it is at once a "triumph" and a heartbreaker. … [Read More...]
St. Monica, Mothers, Manutergium and Father Michael
August 27, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
photosourceToday is the feastday of Saint Monica, mother of Saint Augustine, whose tomb I meant to visit on my last trip to Rome, but got sidetracked, because I am an idiot. As the mother of two young men, I need her help!Her feastday has Fr. Michael Duffy thinking about his mother and the … [Read More...]
“I expect the crowd in power to destroy everything…”
August 27, 2012 By Elizabeth Scalia
Over at Instapundit, Glenn Reynolds posts, amid a wall of discouraging stuff, two especially grim bits:FOLLOW-UP ON FOOD PRICES:I just wanted to weigh in on the food inflation issue with a local data point. I live in Southern Iowa and have a small flock of sheep (12) that I use for weed … [Read More...]
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