Elizabeth Scalia
If you are not subscribing to The Catholic Answer, you’re missing a lot of good stuff. My column for the Jan/Feb issue jumps off an interesting piece on the Feast of the Throne of Peter, to ponder why it is that the Vicar of Christ–beginning with Peter, himself–does not swagger: For competitive purposes, our fathers [...]
Those who think that Pope Benedict XVI is engaged in mere schtick by making an occasional tweet during a papal audience should think again. If we believe that the Holy Spirit can use all things to God’s purposes — even the most confounding things in the most surprising ways — there is no reason to [...]
This landed in my mailbox yesterday: James Hitchcock’s History of the Catholic Church Looks delicious, and I can’t wait to read it, but before I could even peer at it, my son — who likes reading all sorts of history — grabbed it. He’s been outside on the porch, reading and smoking, and reading, and [...]
That’s the question I’m asking in my column at First Things, this week. More correctly, I suppose I am wondering, does the Pope (and the church) need to do better with the “hard” questions of faith that are now subject to New Media? Or do we — and especially the non-believers who are pining for [...]
A friend of mine, after considering this staggering map of today’s widespread unrest, asked me why the Pope has not cancelled or at least postponed his trip to Lebanon. I emailed back, “this pope has seen a lot of history and the passings of all kinds of seasons — seasons of fear, unreast, penance, tyranny [...]
When Leah Libresco informed me that she was entering an RCIA program and wanted to know how to move her blog over here to the Catholic portal, she said she thought there might a some reaction to her conversion, but not enough to take up a whole day, so her main plan was to “sit [...]
On Facebook, Diane of Te-Deum blog embedded this interview between Christiane Amanpour and Sister Joan Chittister, OSB, whom Amanpour calls “a practicing nun.” Because she’s a class-A journalist, is the haughty Christiane. She’s like the Anna Wintour of elite broadcasters, but even less interesting. Full disclosure: as a Benedictine Oblate, I’ve read and gleaned much [...]
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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