Elizabeth Scalia
There is a saying attributed to St. Gregory of Nyssa, that I used to keep up on my header: “Ideas lead to idols; only wonder leads to knowing.” I wonder about that phrase often, and continually draw new understanding as I apply it to different subject matters. It reminds me that I am not only [...]
You have to be a pretty interesting person to be able to write three short, funny and spiritually wise biographies before you’re terribly old. Heather King is onesuch. She describes herself as “an ex-lawyer, ex-drunk Catholic convert” and upon reading her book Redeemed, I promptly fell in love with her work. Then I actually began [...]
My plan was to end the night with a linking round-up of reactions, thoughts and analysis of how the story of the Vatican’s call for a reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious was falling out. And I may still do that — when do I ever shut up? But for tonight, I can’t [...]
The first time I head the title of Hallie Lord’s new book, I was intrigued: Then I saw the list of formidable female writers Hallie had assembled to write ten frank, strong, funny, thoughtful and wrenching essays on the challenges of living an authentically Catholic life in a world where women are expected to take [...]
Last night, after Easter entertaining, my husband and I collapsed on the couch and, flipping through the channels, found a re-broadcasting of Pixar’s wonderful short film, “Partly Cloudy”, which you can see here. Enjoying it again, I told my husband I had actually written about the short, tying it into Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical, Caritas [...]
My column at First Things this week did not start out addressing the coming, unstoppable and necessary confrontation between the church and the homosexual community, but then I read about Cardinal Christoph Schönborn’s decision to support a gay member of a parish council over the priest who wished to unseat him, and Edward Peter’s sensible [...]
It’s an ironic question, given George Zimmerman’s own ideas about guardianship, but it’s one that needs to be asked of the mainstream press. A long time ago, in the midst of of a month-long discussion on media, I noted a piece by a journalist who bristled at the existence of alternative media. To his way [...]
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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