Elizabeth Scalia
My project today — and I am sadly later to it than usual — is to remind you that once again, the Norbertine Nuns of Tehachapi, California are taking orders for their incredibly fresh and long-lasting Christmas Wreaths (pdf) I can only tell you that I have bought these wreaths for the last couple of [...]
I was surprised to receive an email, and a couple of tweets, from people wondering why I had not perpetrated my annual “Nun News” post, focusing on vocations. To be honest, I have just been too busy, but I have been amassing a HUGE list — so large that each time I look at it, [...]
I am internet fasting, and thought it a good time to do some nun news. Here are various Poor Clares in various monasteries being clothed in the habit or profession vows: Twice Sisters: At Our Lady of the Angels monastery, two sisters by blood become sisters in spirit – one clothed, one professed. Also, an [...]
RNS photo by Ryan Gladstone In light of ongoing headlines concerning Rome’s correction to the leadership of the LCWR, their response, and a recent report on the bare numbers of women entering religious life, Dave Gibson has written a really good piece in which he takes a look at a more “traditional” sort of religious [...]
I’ve said before that were I not a Benedictine I would probably be a Dominican. They have so many cool tertiaries (Hello, Pier Giorgio and Catherine of Siena!). So, in honor of the feastday of St. Benedict, let’s hear about the meaning of the Dominican habit — which is essentially unchanged since its beginnings — [...]
Longtime Patheos readers are familiar with Father Michael Duffy, although they may remember him best as Seminarian Michael Duffy, who shared with them his thoughts on the clerical collar as both yoke and witness and the seminary as seedbed for lifelong growth. Deacon Greg noted his June 9th ordination for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, [...]
Since we do like our nun news around these parts, I posted this story of a Franciscan sister before retiring last night; a nice positive close to a busy day. And then of course, we awoke this morning to the dreadful news from Colorado; for most of us, it’s been on our minds and hearts [...]
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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