Elizabeth Scalia
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 [...]
Have any of you folks been watching The Confession, on Hulu? I saw the first three chapters and found the confession scenes just riveting: When a cold-blooded hitman bursts into a hotel room to execute someone, the intended victim does something unexpected: he asks the hitman for a moment to make his peace with God. [...]
Mad men, sad men and … happy men? Is it too difficult for Sesame Street to teach the concept of gladness? While watching this video, everything in me was screaming, “glad! GLAD! You’re GLAD MEN!” They missed an opportunity to make education dynamic: “This makes me happy! This makes me GLAD!” “Happy, happy, happy, we’re [...]
Last week I mentioned that Eliot Spitzer and CNN had renamed their re-tooled panel show, turning Parker Spitzer, into In the Arena, and I groused that there is already a panel show by that name being aired by the Diocese of Brooklyn, which you can see each spring here. This week we’ll be talking about [...]
If you missed Sr. Lisa Doty talking about talking in Church, do check her out, and while you’re over at the portal, do yourself a favor and avail yourself of some thoughts on promises and propaganda. First, read Max Lindenman — typically sharp, sweet and funny — On Dating Nice Catholic Girls: Annie Proulx once [...]
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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