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A Rosary Meditation for Job Seekers, 2025

People are talking, in surprised tones, about the latest job creation revisions which show almost a million fewer jobs created between April of 2024 and March of 2025 than we’d been told. Those of us whose loved ones are lately unemployed — either through corporate downsizing, AI advancements or their company’s reorganization ideas — and have watched as they diligently submit resumes week after week with nary a single invite to an interview are not Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, ago

Hospital Joyful Mysteries: flesh, blood, questions

Having spent most of the month of August in the hospital (an event I am still processing and am not yet ready to write about), I’ve had a lot of time on my hands. My husband was kind enough to bring me a rosary and a few beloved icons, including Blessed Solanus Casey and Our Lady of Perpetual Help from home, and we created a makeshift “oratory” on a windowsill that looked eastward, permitting me Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, ago

On Gloominess and Griping: My ‘Little Sins…”

I’m in the process of collecting my Lenten reading materials — this year I’m going to make a deep dive into the Rule of St. Benedict (which I, bad Benedictine, have been neglecting) and some other books, but I’m thinking I might actually reread my own Little Sins Mean a Lot. That’s not because of ego, but because I very frequently forget what I have written, and while looking for something in my files, came Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, ago

The Horrific LA Fires and Lessons of Hope

The news is so awful and it seems like it has been since the third hour of the new year… but these people in California are inspiring me. And they are teaching me about hope during this Jubilee “Year of Hope” which I have been approaching with a sense of unease — wondering if I even know what hope is.  I see it now, in these sorts of actions great and small actions coming out Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, ago

‘Shut up,’ they said; British MP’s vote against gangrape inquiry

So, British MPs have voted against making a national inquiry into grooming gangs, in a 364-111 vote. Man, when the “ruling class” of public servants don’t want something discussed, they really let us know about it. Big shots in England, who have no problem discussing American issues of governance, and even were fine with some of their citizens coming over the pond to campaign during our last election, are really, really annoyed that Americans are Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, ago

2025: Humans trending badly & reason for hope

My latest column for OSV News was meant to look at the “trends to watch out for in 2025,” but all of my listing and researching got red-lined once I heard a co-worker, remarking on the state of society and the church, “people need to be reminded that ‘you are not being asked to be anything other than human…’” We’re a society that is increasingly detached from one another. We work and play behind screens, Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, ago

Planning my funeral amid the disappointments

So, because my wish list for 2024 went unfulfilled on, well, pretty much every level (at least as far as the church is concerned), I have decided to simply resubmit it as writ and change the date. I mean, a girl can still hope! However, aside from bellyaching about it, I have decided to explain why it is I am currently taking some time to plan out my funeral. After telling a family member that Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, ago

The Sacred Heart deserves better than ideology

According to this report in the New York Times, Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, wants to fight a culture war with a Catholic flag: “I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag,” she is heard to say in a recording, “because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month.” But Ms. Alito said that after she suggested the Sacred Heart of Jesus flag as Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, ago

Best bet for Catholic unity? Admitting our common sin

In my latest column for OSV News, I look at May’s four loudest days on Catholic social media and declare with absolute certainty that — all the hysteria and huffpuffing aside — the growing division within the Catholic Church will continue, and the rifts will widen. Polarization in the church will expand (no matter who is pope or what layperson shakes the cherry trees for picking or how daintily the bishops turn good Christian advice Read more…

By Elizabeth Scalia, ago