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Elizabeth Scalia

Elizabeth Scalia is developmental editor for Our Sunday Visitor.

Praying through the headlines in the year of prayer

April 18, 2024
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

It is an important and, yes, powerful thing to invite our guardian angels to guide us, as we peruse the news, toward stories most worthy of our attention; to guard us against rash judgment or bitter cynicism.

The Year of Prayer: Don’t wait for guidance; just do it

April 4, 2024
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

Prayer is also merely dialogue whose simplicity can resemble all the manner of conversations we have throughout our days, large and small, pleasant or sarcastic or even heated.

Year of Mercy was instructive; Year of Prayer may be immersive

March 20, 2024
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

There were plenty of lessons to be learned in that “Year of Mercy” now we are in a “Year of Prayer” — so designated by Pope Francis in anticipation of the 2025 Jubilee Year.

What is ‘Catholic Enough?’

February 23, 2024
By Elizabeth Scalia
Filed Under: Commentary

It’s a tricky but necessary thing to take time to sit quietly before the Lord while also putting your time and talent into service for Christ’s sake.

Three life lessons from Ursula the Sea Witch’s bold voice

February 8, 2024
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

I felt like Pat Carroll was leaving one last gift to the world — offering real wisdom from someone who had gone ahead and made her choices, and in ways that remained true to her own vision and her own voice.

Whether it’s abortion or irregular blessings, ‘accompaniment’ will be messy

December 20, 2023
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

It’s all about accompaniment, this declaration, but — both theologically and pastorally — some will doubtlessly find it confusing and yes, messy.

Detachment as a component of God’s peace

December 4, 2023
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

Detachment scares people — it sounds like coldness or indifference — but I’m coming to believe it’s actually a deep manifestation of love.

What battles are we losing when the holy water fonts are dry?

November 5, 2023
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

Pastors throughout the church, if you haven’t already, please fill the fonts and supply holy water to the stoups.

Architecture and witness: A tale of two temples

October 26, 2023
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

St. Mary’s Cathedral will remain a longshot on my itinerary, while a temple wholly outside my faith looks too gorgeously interesting to go unexplored.

Teresa of Avila, Good Pope John and … Jimmy Buffett?

September 5, 2023
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary

Jimmy Buffett knew how to recognize when to take action and when to relax and enjoy the life he’d been given.

Aldean’s strange ‘small town’ sticks a finger into raw wounds

July 25, 2023
By Elizabeth Scalia
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Commentary

“Try that in a Small Town” boasts lyrics about Grandad’s shotgun, handed down and waiting in readiness in case any miscreants currently shoplifting, sucker-punching and otherwise diminishing our cities show up on his turf.

‘Signs and times’: What about Sister Wilhelmina?

July 1, 2023
By Elizabeth Scalia
OSV News
Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Commentary, Racial Justice

Since the discovery of Sister Wilhelmina’s intact remains, four aspects of the story have many asking, “What is happening and what does it mean?”

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