Elizabeth Scalia
WRITTEN BY MAX LINDENMAN: Poor Glen Lafantasie. The Civil War historian from Kentucky is freaking out over the sesquicentennial of the war’s declaration. He fears it will trigger a nostalgic frenzy among the amateurs — particularly the reenactors, who seem to him touched by the obsessiveness that’s made sci-fi and comic fanboys such an easy [...]
WRITTEN BY MAX LINDENMAN: Yesterday, I was impressed to see so many readers celebrating the royal wedding as a validation of marriage. At First Things, Meghan Duke takes a slightly different approach: she sees it as a rebuke to the practice of permanent cohabitation: “It’s probably best that they live together before making a commitment,” [...]
[GUEST POST, WRITTEN BY MAX LINDENMAN] A few more thoughts on the quirks of the canonization process… Regarding the round-the-clock publicity surrounding the capture and liberation of Private Jessica Lynch, Larry Flynt sniffed, “{the government] force-fed us Joan of Arc.” If Larry had done his homework he’d have known that far greater scoundrels than anyone [...]
Elizabeth Scalia is a Benedictine Oblate and the Managing Editor of the Catholic Portal at Patheos. She is a writer, speaker and a regularly-featured columnist at First Things and at The Catholic Answer. Look for her book, Strange Gods: Unmasking the Idols in Everyday Life to be released in 2013, via Ave Maria Press.
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