Elizabeth Scalia
“Each woman’s life, well lived, might be the best gospel anyone will ever read. But before the doing, before the carrying out of the mission, there is the being. The personhood of each woman, without her ever saying a word or doing a thing, is a sign of life. Womanhood. Life. Those terms are inseparable” [...]
On his new blog, John Thavis explains how and why information from the General Congregations in Rome just got harder to come by: Sister Mary Ann Walsh…said in an email: “Concern was expressed in the General Congregation about leaks of confidential proceedings reportedin Italian newspapers. As a precaution, the cardinals have agreed not to do [...]
After receiving an advance copy of John Thavis’ timely new book The Vatican Diaries, and enjoying it immensely, as I relate here, I emailed a few questions to Thavis — the “retired” former Rome bureau chief for Catholic News Services who is currently back in Rome covering the impending conclave, and even blogging at his [...]
Martin Luther King said “a lie can’t live.” It can travel around for a while, but eventually, like spinning top that is spent, a lie must tumble . It’s supremely interesting to me that at the very moment we are watching the beginnings of an all-out effort by the press and others to “define” the [...]
I haven’t commented about the creepy “Happy Anniversary Video” celebrating 40 years since Roe v. Wade; the suave African American man, holding a rose and cooing about the wonder of this anniversary really is, as Marc Barnes writes, “the creepiest sh*t…” If you haven’t seen the video, you should go to Marc’s place and watch. [...]
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 [...]
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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