Elizabeth Scalia
Dear Lord; I’m feeling a little overwhelmed here. It’s bad enough that the Holy Spirit spurred me on last night into reading some of the most romantic and alluring poetry ever written, and it was in your scriptures, “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that [...]
Ann Althouse has a good discussion going on over at her place on Rudy Giuliani advising Italian-Americans (I’m married to one, so I can have an opinion) getting offended by the stereotypical depictions on The Sopranos. Rudy says, “you can’t spend your whole life looking to be insulted,” or thereabouts. He’s right. Also, any NY/NJ [...]
Regular readers know that I’m not much of a television watcher, but between Buster’s nagging and Ann Althouse’s spirited blogging on the subject I have taken to watching American Idol and (this won’t really surprise you) Project Runway. (I love Nick and Andrae and Daniel Franco.) I really haven’t had much chance to hear the [...]
A few weeks ago, I posted Carthusians Abounding, linking you to Nancy Klein Maguire’s excellent new book, An Infinity of Little Hours and the trailer for the documentary Into the Great Silence. I don’t think it’s any accident that two wholly unconnected people, a writer/researcher and a filmmaker have devoted years of their lives to [...]
I hope we have reached the nadir of Reality TV, now. It’s all getting too creepy. More than a decade after 16-year-old Amy Fisher had a sexual relationship with a much-older car mechanic and shot his wife in the face, the one-time “Long Island Lolita” and Joey and Mary Jo Buttafuoco have agreed to appear [...]
Tom Shales reviews two upcoming TV flicks on the life of Pope John Paul the Great, and the reviews are well worth reading. The CBS biopic sounds like a real winner – I’m looking forward to it, particularly because the writers and director seem to have gotten the key message of John Paul’s priesthood and [...]
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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