Tag: Elizabeth Scalia

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

There are some news articles one consumes with the same reluctance as one accepts a repellent medical treatment. "A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed...

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

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,...

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

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

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...

Parting truly is "such sweet sorrow," and in this era of anti-heroes, deep irony and unsympathetic characters, I miss "Ted Lasso." Having found a...

As his sixth birthday approached, my younger son made a big noise about it. His anticipation was so great that he got jolly a week...

Recently I found an essay I had written 'way back in 2013, where I'd wondered whether there was room in Catholic pews for a...