Elizabeth Scalia
So, Katrina is in one of her hissing moods, tonight, and I have decided that what she needs is to listen to the incredibly sweet tone of the Benedictines of Mary, whose latest album, Angels and Saints at Ephesus has debuted at #1 on the Classical music charts. Why am I doing this? Because that’s [...]
“If you are what you should be, you will set the world on fire” – St. Catherine of Siena I’ve told this to my kids all their lives, even before I knew Catherine had said it: If you do the thing you’re born to do, you will excel, you will excite, you will change things. [...]
O God, who have given to us in Saint Frances of Rome a singular model of both married and monastic life, grant us perseverance in your service, that in every circumstance of life we may see and follow you. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity [...]
I’m a few days tardy in mentioning it, and that’s my fault, but if you look over at the sidebar, you’ll see a button for the Patheos Book Club that says “BOOK GIVEAWAY”. It looks like this: If you press the button, you will be led to this page where you can register to win [...]
I was surprised to receive an email, and a couple of tweets, from people wondering why I had not perpetrated my annual “Nun News” post, focusing on vocations. To be honest, I have just been too busy, but I have been amassing a HUGE list — so large that each time I look at it, [...]
Sometimes the best part of this job is the enormous number of books that show up on my doorstep. Come to think of it, it’s also the worst part, because I can’t possibly read them all, and I end up feeling bad about that, even as I at least “try” to mention them all. There [...]
While the SCOTUS ruling was breaking, this story came over the wires, too: Servant of God Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is now “Venerable” after the Vatican announced today that Benedict XVI had signed a decree recognising that the archbishop heroically lived Christian virtues. The announcement of the decree marks a significant step in the canonization [...]
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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