Elizabeth Scalia wonders whether anger begins to abate with gratitude :
Last week, several friends who believe that “the church hates women” and works to suppress them, sent me a link to a story about historian and L’Osservatore Romano columnist, Lucetta Scaraffia, who, in an interview with Agence France-Presse announced, “There is misogyny in the Church . . . It’s not possible to go on like this. Women in the Church are angry!”
Notes on Anosmia
One morning several years ago, as my wife, Wendy, and I were having breakfast together, I had…
Empire of Unreality
Shiva Naipaul (1945–1985) was the author of three novels and two books of mordant dispatches from places…
The Dreadful Christ of Pär Lagerkvist
It’s dangerous to meet a god,” says the disgraced Pythia in Pär Lagerkvist’s The Sibyl. Her observation…