Elizabeth Scalia
I haven’t read The Bible Tells Me So, yet; I never even heard about it until this week. But I love it, because Lisa Mladinich has written so entertainingly about it, and about the fellow behind it! It’s the beginning of the catechetical year on a warm Wednesday evening in September, and a noisy crowd [...]
I read this story over at Deacon Greg’s earlier today and it annoyed me but I was too busy to write about it. My first thought was, “so, you friends at Catholic high school have supported you as you came out and by your own admission, always been respectful, and the school was fine about [...]
For reasons that are not worth going into– at least not yet — I have a question for the Catholic Moms and Dads out there — particularly those of you who home-school, or take main responsibility for your child’s religious formation or teach catechism, yourself. The question is, are you familiar with these out-of-print books? [...]
Oh, come on, now! It is a world-renowned work of literature and one of the foundation stones of the Italian language, but Dante’s Divine Comedy has been condemned as racist, homophobic, anti-Islamist and anti-Semitic. The classic work should be removed from school curricula, according to Gherush 92, a human rights organisation which acts as a [...]
Currents, the daily Catholic news program produced by the Diocese of Brooklyn, observes the second anniversary of Haiti’s devastating earthquake by interviewing Father Jean Moise Delva who, sadly, reports that not much has changed. “It was very sad to see the atmosphere, and the way people are living,” Father Delva says. Noting that 2.38 billion [...]
Glenn Reynolds was struck by the same phrase that struck me too. He called it “Orwellian” and it is. But it’s faster to just say “Fascist.” “This is not an act of censorship; it’s an act of sensitivity!” Yeah…the “shushing tyranny of ‘be nice.’” Over-interpreting a thing or elasticizing its meaning into Utter Stupidityland (as [...]
Wyoming Catholic College likes to conduct some of its classes in the great outdoors. In Wyoming. And it seems to be exactly the sort of row-against-the-tide school I would have loved to have sent my kids to, if they were at that point in their lives. The school is making a huge commitment to bringing [...]
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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