Elizabeth Scalia
It can’t be said enough that John Allen is a terrific writer who knows his stuff. Can anyone forget his mesmerizing reports on the final illness, death and funeral of John Paul II and the subsequent election of Benedict XVI? One reads Allen and feels like one is at the Vatican, privvy to all the [...]
Gerald at Closed Cafeteria links to a fascinating read in America Magazine, as a priest, Fr. Michael Kerper, relates his insights and feelings upon performing his first Traditional Latin Mass. Enormously interesting, and humbling stuff: …As I studied the Latin texts and intricate rituals I had never noticed as a boy, I discovered that the [...]
Mark Shea writes on the media and it’s perceptions on Benedict: Two years ago, the mainstream media gathered in a special conclave in Rome to discuss the disastrous election to the papacy of Ratzinger the Enforcer, God’s Rottweiler, the hardliner, inflexible, rigid, etc., blah blah. Some of us suggested to our television screens that the [...]
Faith and Reason and Forced Conversions Originally posted September 5, 2006 Tina Brown; Our Lady of the Air Kiss Originally published April 22, 2005 FAITH AND REASON AND FORCED CONVERSIONS “Was not Nagasaki the chosen victim, the lamb without blemish, slain as a whole burnt offering on an altar of sacrifice, atoning for the sins [...]
Okay, so I lied and that wasn’t my last book recommendation for 2006. These are! For Doubleday, acquiring the publication rights for the first book by Joseph Ratzinger since his ascension to the papacy is a very big “get”, especially since the prolific and very readable Benedict XVI’s books routinely make the bestseller’s lists. In [...]
I am not especially saddened to see the brouhaha that is gaining strength over Benedict’s speech. Whether he is “media savvy” or not, Benedict has managed – in his very scholarly fashion – to apply a very hot drawing poultice to the enormous and festering boils of both radical Islamism and rampant secularism. At the [...]
The headline: Pope enjoys private time after slamming Islam H/T Amy. “Slamming?” What a provocative word. The WaPo, more accurately: Pope Invites Muslims to Dialogue. In a major lecture at Regensburg University, where he taught theology between 1969 to 1977, Benedict said Christianity was tightly linked to reason and contrasted this view with those who [...]
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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