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Jesuits to admit women: Who will be the first female Jebbies?

I think this news is actually bigger and more exciting than I seem to be saying where I am quoted in this piece. It’s about time the Jesuits had female members. All the other great religious orders have them. Even the Oratorians have created a role for women — the Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, 6 years ago
Society

Synagogue’s Dr. Jeff Cohen: Who Each of Us Can Be, If We Are Only Willing!

    Britain’s Channel 4 News put up a tweet that had the rare effect of taking social media furies out of themselves for a few minutes in admiration of one man’s wisdom and humility. Dr. Jeff Cohen, a member of the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and a Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, 7 yearsOctober 29, 2018 ago
Society

Suicide and Love’s Suffering: “Put religion on it” cannot be our only response

?Within days of each other, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain took their own lives, and the world responded as the world always does, by trying to find the simplest answer as to why people commit suicide and then finding the fastest and most practical way to address it so they Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, 7 years ago
Society

Gay Wedding Cakes: SCOTUS goes 7-2 in favor of 1st Amendment with narrow instruction

The Supreme Court has handed down a 7-2 decision on the question of bakers and cakes and gay weddings, and Colorado’s clear hostility toward religion as protected by the 1st Amendment seems to have impacted that ruling: The justices, in a 7-2 decision, faulted the Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s handling Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, 7 yearsJune 4, 2018 ago
Society

Zuckerberg’s Folly: Facebook silencing hate will only serve a cheap illusion

So, there I was, watching as much as I could stand of the congressional questioning of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and mostly feeling completely unimpressed by these leaders of legislation and industry — am I jaded? Am I a smartass? I don’t know. I just know that none of them Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, 7 years ago
Society

“The Breakfast Club” and Molly Ringwald and 2 Millennials in a Deli

Overheard at the Deli: Millennial #1: “I don’t get ragging on Breakfast Club like it’s all harassment and stuff. What does she want, movies w/no stories b/c they eliminate human nature?” Millennial #2: “Yes. Eliminating human nature is the whole point.” Millennial #1: (Emphatic agreement) “RIGHT?” Millennial #2: “So it’s all Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, 7 yearsApril 9, 2018 ago
Society

Baseball Begins! Life just got better

Photo: Anc516-cc There is nothing like walking into a local mom and pop store and hearing the singular sound of a baseball game playing in the background — crack of the bat, whiff of the ball into the leather. It’s grounding in the way walking into a well-used church is Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, 7 years ago
Society

“Be kind, even if you are right…”

Every time I think I’m done with social media, I find a pearl that keeps me going back. Like this one, which is full of true wisdom: My position on argumentation is often sourced from a phrase I read in a Japanese book: 'Always remember that to argue, and win, Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, 7 yearsFebruary 11, 2018 ago

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