Elizabeth Scalia
My column at First Things this week looks at the aphorism that “those who can’t do teach,” and wonders what lessons have been learned from those bishops of ours who did not know how to do their jobs: If “those who can’t do teach,” then a few of our teacher-bishops imparted some profoundly important lessons [...]
As Holy Week approaches we can always count on provocative headlines, like Time Magazine’s Is Hell Dead? which looks at the latest book by Evangelical preacher Rob Bell. In October, it wouldn’t warrant a cover, I’m sure. This entire Lent, however, the Catholic church in America has been roiling with Cult of Personality issues. The [...]
I’m a little behind and late getting this linked, but my column is up at First Things, where I am reflecting on todays readings and how viper-bitten the whole church seems to be, this Lent: The Church seems always to be challenged during the Lenten season, but this time the attacks are not foreign, as [...]
Via For reasons I will never understand, when it comes to this ongoing issue with Father John Corapi, my encouraging a “wait and see” attitude has translated (for some) as meaning “Mean Lizzie hates Fr. Corapi and cannot wait to see him destroyed, bwwwaaaahahahaha!” Which, as I have said before, is crap. But people believe [...]
Over at Deacon Greg’s place, the raging, the speculation, the accusing, the snide remarks, the sneering, the hyperventilating, the name-calling, the condescension, the nasty challenges just go on and on and on. There is this whole “we call you part of an anti-Corapi conspiracy” thing going on there, and in my email, which is sad, [...]
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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