Tag: Elizabeth Scalia

Small sparks of feeling that become all-consuming conflagrations can happen at any time, even, sadly, as one is preparing for Mass. I write, of course,...

"The best thing about being 80 is that you outlive the clocks that have been chasing you. It's freedom from that lie than anything...

Coming in at 42,000 words, Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical, "Magnifica Humanitas," is massive. It's huge. It is clear-eyed and comprehensive and so chock-full...

Because my Lent took a nosedive about two-thirds of the way through, I am still immersed in a project I undertook in order to...

Non-Catholic friends are often puzzled by our calendar of memorials and solemnities, particularly the solemnity of the Annunciation -- a moment that usually only...

The words went out over a social media platform, made more poignant for the accompanying image of Pope Leo XIV consoling a weeping Lebanese...

"When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not sit down at the place of honor" (Lk 14:8). Okay, can we stipulate...

Thanks to the availability of instantaneous, global communication and our addiction to it, 21st century humans are permitted — perhaps condemned is a better...

Utterly life-changing was the day I learned that the Hebrew word most frequently used for “sin” (hhatah) is understood by scholars to mean “missing...

In the wake of recent headlines about the bruising cuts made to federal funding of various Catholic ministries, Pope Francis' words from his 2013...