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Jan 15, 2025 | 
angelusnews.com | Elizabeth Scalia |Justin Mclellan |Pablo Kay |Fredrick Nzwili
How could there not be enough water available to fire hydrants? Why are controlled fires and routine brush clearing not part of normal maintenance in such a fire-prone area? Who will be held accountable for lapses in fire preparedness and crisis readiness? The questions came fast, and they were furious, as we all watched one of the most beautiful, desirable living spaces in the United States burn down to rubble over a matter of hours, and then days, and then through an entire week.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
nwcatholic.org | Elizabeth Scalia
How could there not be enough water available to fire hydrants?
Why are controlled fires and routine brush clearing not part of normal maintenance in such a fire-prone area?
Who will be held accountable for lapses in fire preparedness and crisis readiness?
The questions came fast, and they were furious, as we all watched one of the most beautiful, desirable living spaces in the United States burn down to rubble over a matter of hours, and then days, and then through an entire week.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
oursundayvisitor.com | Elizabeth Scalia |Kenneth Craycraft |Linda Petersen |Gina Christian
There are enough tentacles reaching out from this Kraken of a story to concern anyone capable of reason, but the most troubling is the recent poll out of Emerson University showing that 41% of voters aged 18-29 find Mangione’s alleged cold-blooded action an acceptable means to an end.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
osvnews.com | Elizabeth Scalia
So, at the end of 2023, I published my “Catholic Wish List” for 2024, laying out some hopes for the church that seemed, if not “easy,” then at least reasonable and doable for the truly motivated. Readers said they shared my hopes but believed I was indulging a pipe-dream. Well, as 2024 closes, we see small signs of progress, here and there.
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Dec 30, 2024 | 
catholicreview.org | Elizabeth Scalia
So, at the end of 2023, I published my “Catholic Wish List” for 2024, laying out some hopes for the church that seemed, if not “easy,” then at least reasonable and doable for the truly motivated. Readers said they shared my hopes but believed I was indulging a pipe-dream. Well, as 2024 closes, we see small signs of progress, here and there.
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Dec 29, 2024 | 
thedialog.org | Elizabeth Scalia
So, at the end of 2023, I published my “Catholic Wish List” for 2024, laying out some hopes for the church that seemed, if not “easy,” then at least reasonable and doable for the truly motivated. Readers said they shared my hopes but believed I was indulging a pipe-dream. Well, as 2024 closes, we see small signs of progress, here and there.
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Dec 12, 2024 | 
irishcatholic.com | Elizabeth Scalia
“After the man, Adam, had eaten of the tree, the Lord God called to the man and asked him, ‘Where are you?’ He answered, ‘I heard you in the garden; but I was afraid, because I was naked, so I hid myself.’ Then he asked, ‘Who told you that you were naked?’” (Gn 3:8-11) In these early days of Advent, when we are immersing ourselves in biblical narratives, we can easily forget that nothing we read in Scripture is there by accident – that even a seemingly inconsequential detail (like the fact...
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Elizabeth Scalia
Zep 3:14-18aIs 12:2-3, 4, 5-6Phil 4:4-7Lk 3:10-18The point is summed up in what Josef Pieper wrote once, that "we are not the forgers of our own felicity."Of course, he wasn't at all the only one to say something like this, such has always been true. Real joy is not anything we make on our own but can only receive. Those who understand this find real happiness while those who don't find it -- after what they thought would make them happy fades away -- find only real emptiness.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Elizabeth Scalia
Where would we be now without the first Christmas? 2025 years ago, God became man, and it changed everything. We take the beloved manger scene for granted, but what if there was no creche with its shepherds and wise men?
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
thebostonpilot.com | Elizabeth Scalia
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Advent is a season of hope. We retrace the experience of the Jewish people awaiting the first coming of the Messiah in Bethlehem in order to prepare us for Jesus' second coming and to embrace him in the various ways he comes to us in the present. We relive the hope of the past to discover and appreciate its first fulfillment in the present and stoke our yearning for its definitive fulfillment in the future.
