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Patheos Writers and Friends Honored by CPA! UPDATED

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:25 am By Elizabeth Scalia

Last night, in Charlotte, where Team Patheos rocked a panel on digital media, the Catholic Press Association presented awards in a numerous categories, and a number of our Patheos writers (and our good friends) were recognized for their excellent work! Part of a seemingly unstoppable Jesuit Juggernaut that included Fr. Antonio Spadaro’s world-stopping interview with His Holiness Pope Francis, and a number of awards for America Magazine (who just shamed the Associated Press into actually correcting their reportage on the... Read more

Cordileone’s “March for Marriage” Response a Gem

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:25 am By Elizabeth Scalia

I shouldn’t say it because, well, this guy has good reasons why I oughtn’t (H/T) but recovery from pneumonia (and now bronchitis) has made me busier than I want to be, as I try to catch up with work that has fallen behind. I barely have time to read all the Patheos writers, much less off-site pieces. Because I must read those, though, I was happily prompted, first by David Mills’s excerpt, and then by Deacon Greg, to read San... Read more

Mrs. Obama is ProChoice, Except for Schools, Lunches — UPDATED

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:25 am By Elizabeth Scalia

Look, I am not a big detractor of Michelle Obama. I mostly like her fashion choices, and I think her mission to encourage garden growing and healthy food choices is, on its face, an excellent focus for a First Lady, and something I can really get behind. And yet, for a woman who possesses (as she often notes) degrees from Princeton and Harvard Law, Mrs. Obama’s arguments for her cause are clumsily executed, specious, and (one hopes) unintentionally insulting. Her... Read more

“Why be singular when you can participate in heaven?”

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:26 am By Elizabeth Scalia

My latest column at The Catholic Answer is called “Our Professors, Who Art in Heaven” and touches on the question that comes up again and again, particularly with those concerned about idolatry: why do Catholics show such reverence for saints? The Communion of Saints must seem strange to outsiders who wonder why Catholics and Orthodox Christians bother taking side roads in their orisons when a prayer to Jesus seems like a faster, more direct route. As a religious sister from... Read more

Hearing Pope Francis With the Ear of the Heart

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:26 am By Elizabeth Scalia

Over at The Crescat, Katrina Fernandez is puzzling out Pope Francis and the way people react to him. A lot of people have expressed to me the almost schizophrenic spiritual state Pope Francis puts them in. Admittedly, I too have felt this same bit of anxiousness at times. I’ve even heard comments suggesting the Pope is to blame for the divisive polarizing atmosphere between the “traddies” and “trendies”. They feel like he is constantly criticizing while we try and decipher... Read more

“The Eye of a Samurai Knows No Tear”

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:26 am By Elizabeth Scalia

The cruelest, most violent Samurai in Japan decides he wants to become enlightened. He bursts into the home of an esteemed Zen Master and demands that the Master teach him how to become enlightened. The Zen Master looks deeply into his eyes and says, “No. You are a dirty, vicious Samurai. I will not teach you.” Enraged, the Samurai yanks out his sword and places it right at the Zen Master’s neck. He hollers, “Do you have any idea who... Read more

How Does Vatican Interfaith Prayer Help the Peace Process?

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:26 am By Elizabeth Scalia

We’re seeing lots of internet coverage, stories, and opinions regarding Pope Francis hosting Israel’s President Shimon Peres, and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tomorrow — on Pentecost Sunday, at the close to the Easter season — and the prayers that will be said. Here’s the deal: . . .Vatican officials also confirmed that Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople will participate in the prayer service [and] stressed that the prayer service should be seen not as a political gesture, but in... Read more

Suffering Servant: Did Benedict Actually Resign?

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:26 am By Elizabeth Scalia

This whole piece by John L. Allen is fascinating, but scroll down to the question: Did Benedict resign? Yet another point of interest from the recent press conference came when Francis took a question about papal resignation. He didn’t reveal his own plans, saying only that he’ll do “what the Lord tells me,” but did insist that he believes Benedict XVI historic decision to step down is not an “isolated case.” In that connection, an essay on Tuesday by longtime... Read more

Not Firing Anyone: Kiss Hands Before Round 2

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:26 am By Elizabeth Scalia

Sadly, while I did indeed bring everyone’s intentions with me to the Holy Land, I was not able to pray in the holiest of places. I was denied Jerusalem thanks to a case of pneumonia that sent me home and then quickly to hospital. But know I did pray, and even in a hospital bed, gasping for breath, I offered it up for your intentions. It was the best I could do. I will write about Israel later, when I... Read more

Patheos Welcomes Dr. Pia de Solenni to the Mix!

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 12:26 am By Elizabeth Scalia

One of the great pleasures and challenges of assembling the Catholic channel at Patheos has been presenting a broad-but-balanced-view of Catholicism — one that is not-too-conservative, nor too-progressive in scope, but finds the more common middle area between those extremes, wherein most Catholics reside. For most Catholics, in fact, arriving at Catholic Orthodoxy is a process. Our faith is difficult, sometimes; that’s what makes it great. Catholicism demands not “blind obedience” but the application of reason-to-faith, even as it allows... Read more

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