Home Search

Elizabeth Scalia - search results

If you're not happy with the results, please do another search

‘See something, say something’ is a better risk than silence — Elizabeth Scalia

Touching on an incident where a priest hearing confessions was pepper-sprayed, a recent article from OSV News looked at how clergy and layfolk might...

Mercy is instructive, prayer immersive: Confronting reality in the face of untruth — Elizabeth...

St. Philip Neri once had a penitent confess to indulging in gossip. He advised the contrite soul to bring him a chicken, and to...

Life lessons from the late Pat Carroll, Ursula the Sea Witch’s bold voice —...

"Life's full of tough choices, innit?" The question oozes out of Ursula the Sea Witch like a plume of playfully poisonous vapor as she interrupts...

It is possible to explore the eros of God without setting off grooming alarms?...

"Eros is … that force which 'does not allow the lover to remain in himself but moves him to become one with the beloved.'...

Humility, honesty, faith: My wish list for the church in 2024 — Elizabeth Scalia

You have no idea how many of my columns have begun as a germ of a thought -- usually an annoyed question -- scribbled...

In Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the world is much more about shades of gray than black-and-white...

"From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free…" Watching a news report of a group of students chanting the line, I wondered if...

Theology and ideology rarely mix well as we see in the latest conflict in...

Since Oct. 7, I have been trying to understand something incomprehensible. There is a lot that has happened since that bloody date that is incomprehensible,...

If you’re a parent, you’ve lived through so many worrisome moments, and need to...

Parents are all too familiar with the sort of anxiety that can subconsciously nag at you all day long, before really kicking in at...

Just like stepping on a pop top, nearly everything in our lives will eventually...

Too often lately, it feels like the offices from which we’ve historically taken our cues -- our political and community leadership, the punditry, local...

It’s nearly impossible to feel bitter toward someone when you’re praying for their good...

For love of the house of the Lord I will ask for your good. — Ps 122:9 Sometimes Jesus’ words are so familiar to us we...

Diocese