Elizabeth Scalia
Whenever I see that picture of Archbishop Charles Chaput I think to myself, “great scott, he looks clean as a whistle!” And then I think, “his face is youthful, yet it has an ages-past quality to it,” one that reminds me of the faces you would see in a reading primer of the mid-twentieth century [...]
America is in the process of tumbling: she has one party interested only in “remaking” America with or without the constitution’s guidance; it is a party become so expert at political maneuvering that it no longer believes it actually has to lead, build consensus or compromise — ever — and another party that can’t manage [...]
An interview from 2008: (H/T) UPDATE: Okay. SHAPyoo seems to be the winner. And here is a really good piece by Dave Gibson on the man. +++++ UPDATE: First Things has just published A column by Chaput on Catholic Charity in Secular America: For Catholics, every human person—no matter how disabled, poor, or flawed—has a [...]
My Tuesday Column over at First Things this week addresses what seems to me to be the unseemly amount of fretting being done by people of faith: Perhaps it is because so many Catholics currently seem to be wandering that some are panicking and reaching for their cutlasses. Certainly the Church does seem to be [...]
I do believe that Rocco Palmo’s Whispers in the Loggia may have been first to break the news, but New Advent might have won by a nose. And it’s big news, indeed — the beleaguered and hurting Philadelphia’s new bishop is Denver’s Charles Chaput: Rocco — from whom I shamelessly cribbed the picture — writes: [...]
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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