Elizabeth Scalia
@TheAnchoress
Benedictine Oblate. Editor OSV. Books: Strange Gods (2013) Little Sins (2016). What I have written, I have written.
"By any sane reckoning, Chuck Jones, the animation director who created Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, is one of the greatest filmmakers who ever lived." Long but well worth reading! deadspin.com/how-wile-e-coy…
Cutting human beings from media outlets saves $$ but loses all the ways human synapses, memories, passions and even personal quirks can fine-tune the info on offer, bringing nuance to news or making odd connections that can cool a hot conversation... osvnews.com/artificial-int……
New editions/translations of these 3 classic novels are excellent reads for the waning days of summer. oursundayvisitor.com/3-new-editions… @OSV
RIP, Ozzy.
Ozzy Osbourne meets Paul McCartney for the first time, 2001.
Archbishop Wenski said that he and members of the Knights of Columbus’ Knights on Bikes Int'l fraternal organization “stopped at the entrance of Alligator Alcatraz & prayed a rosary for the detainees.” osvnews.com/archbishop-wen… @OSVNews
“Syria as a country is at an end today..." Houses destroyed, church burnt: new wave of violence against Syrian Christians - osvnews.com/houses-destroy… @OSVNews
Lay associates journey with the Oblate Sisters of Providence catholicreview.org/lay-associates… via @CatholicReview
Early Beatle photographer Dezo Hoffman said the only time he saw Paul relax during their first US visit was while he was reading to and interacting w/the children of one of the cops escorting them.
Paul McCartney playing music for children with Autism as music therapy (BBC’s “Power of Music” documentary, 1988)
Reading #PaulMcCartney lyrics of “Friends to Go” and finding them almost unbearably poignant. Really, heartrending. I hope your wait ends soon, Paul.
“I never used that word ‘dumped,'” she insisted. “I never said to anyone that 800 bodies were dumped in a septic tank. That did not come from me at any point. They are not my words,” Corless told The Irish Times in 2014. osvnews.com/as-excavation-… @OSVNews
Surprised they didn't do a better job on the colors. And with perhaps a beige background. oursundayvisitor.com/new-catholic-s…
Church of England weighs proposal to place St. Thomas More's skull in shrine for veneration osvnews.com/church-of-engl…
Clergy sexual abuse has mutilated the Church. It has scourged Christ’s body. Like a rock dropped in the water, the ripples stretch out far, and they continue to reach far beyond the sins perpetrated in darkness. oursundayvisitor.com/a-sower-of-lig… @OSV @HeinleinMichael
“The Church has had a faithful presence in this region for nearly 2,000 years. We reject this message of exclusion & reaffirm our commitment to a Holy Land that is a mosaic of different faiths, living peacefully together in dignity & safety. @OSVNews osvnews.com/patriarchs-sup…
But in exchange for explanation, we lost mystery, romance, and lately, ourselves. thefp.com/p/nobody-has-a… @TheFP
This is stunning: Nearly one in three conceptions in England and Wales end in abortion, government figures reveal. osvnews.com/nearly-one-in-… @OSVNews
