Elizabeth Scalia
A couple of weeks ago my On the Square piece took at look at the visual witness of the religious habit, and wondered whether it might not be worth it for some communities to take a second look at the wearing of them. Happily, that piece has inspired the Nunspeak blogger, Sr. Lisa–a Canossian Sister [...]
A gorgeous remembrance of Sr. Angelika, OSB, by her Abbess at St. Walburga’s: In 1980, with Mother Maria-Thomas as superior, she was chosen to be the prioress. She served this call beautifully for many, many years. And she encouraged us in the same way that she encouraged the young monks. One of the sisters was [...]
This is not good: It is believed that sometime overnight on Aug. 3 or early morning on Aug. 4 someone broke into St. Rose of Lima Church in Carbondale. The person was able to open the tabernacle, the receptacle on the side altar in which the vessels containing the Blessed Sacrament are kept. The person [...]
Horrible Little Girl on a Great Day, Age 6 There is a question being bandied about, thanks to A Cardinal’s Musings:: Children today are maturing so quickly and are exposed to so many different influences that it might be time to consider allowing them to prepare for and receive their first Communion even before their [...]
I’ve written before how my fraying life snapped back into focus during a chance encounter with Eucharistic Adoration. I’d been driving down a street with the windows open and heard the noontime bells ring as I passed a church. Obeying an impulse – ahem – I decided to stop in and maybe light a candle. [...]
Pelicans back in danger In St. Thomas Aquinas’ Adoro te Devote, we sing: Pie Pellicane, Iesu Domine, Me immundum munda tuo sanguine. Cuius una stilla salvum facere Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere. Translation: Lord Jesus, good Pelican, wash me clean with your blood, one drop of which can free the entire world of all [...]
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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