Elizabeth Scalia
Image courtesy of Shutterstock.com Two Patheos bloggers are talking seriously about women and sex today, both from very different perspectives, both worth reading. At Rebecca Hamilton’s blog Public Catholic, she has turned her space over to a guest blogger willing to share a harrowing story of the realities of human trafficking: I moved to New [...]
In my column at First Things today, I recount a bit of personal family history: My mother—let’s call her Alice—was born during the Depression to a couple who could neither hear nor speak, and were rather famous around Coney Island for their ability to initiate spontaneous parties and sustain them for whole weekends. They were [...]
In the mail comes, Mothers of the Church: The Witness of Early Christian Women, by Mike Aquilina and Christopher Bailey. It’s the follow-up to Aquilina’s hugely popular book, The Fathers of the Church. A book of martyrs, mothers, abbesses, desert solitaries and (believe it or not) entrepreneurs who “left their mark on sacred history by [...]
“Sandwich Day” is one of my favorite episodes of 30 Rock. On the set of The Girlie Show, “sandwich day” is “the most magical day of the year,” says the slovenly writer, Frank. It’s the day when the Teamsters treat the staff to sandwiches purchased from a Brooklyn deli whose location is kept a strict [...]
The sisters are all Joan of Arc and the Bishops are all Don Giovanni! Allow me to clear my tabbar of these numerous links touching on the Sr. Margaret Farley story, the LCWR leadership meeting with Rome story and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad menfolk — offering “the contorted thinking of celibate men” [...]
You have to be a pretty interesting person to be able to write three short, funny and spiritually wise biographies before you’re terribly old. Heather King is onesuch. She describes herself as “an ex-lawyer, ex-drunk Catholic convert” and upon reading her book Redeemed, I promptly fell in love with her work. Then I actually began [...]
The first time I head the title of Hallie Lord’s new book, I was intrigued: Then I saw the list of formidable female writers Hallie had assembled to write ten frank, strong, funny, thoughtful and wrenching essays on the challenges of living an authentically Catholic life in a world where women are expected to take [...]
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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