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Elizabeth Scalia is a contributing writer for First Things. She blogs at The Anchoress.

On The Square Articles

• The Days of Bullying and Idols | May 7, 2013 12:01am
• American Church: The Dark Joy of Exclusion | Apr 23, 2013 12:01am
• Jesus Never Said I Couldn’t Paint the Baby | Apr 9, 2013 12:00am
• A Gospel Pasteurized for Our Protection | Mar 26, 2013 12:02am
• The Intrinsic Disorder of Me | Mar 12, 2013 12:02am
• The Pope’s Benedict Option | Feb 26, 2013 12:02am
• Rows to Hoe in the Virtual Fields of the Lord | Feb 12, 2013 5:29am
• How Do We Respond to ‘So What?’ | Jan 29, 2013 1:58am
• Think Respectable Thoughts, or Pay the Consequences | Jan 15, 2013 12:48am
• Republicans’ Atomic Stupidity | Jan 8, 2013 1:17am
• Doing Better with the Hard Questions | Dec 18, 2012 12:17am
• Between Loving and Labeling | Dec 11, 2012 12:32am
• Is the Church Suppressing God’s Will? | Dec 4, 2012 12:02am
• Begin the Apocalypse! | Nov 27, 2012 12:52am
• The Mass of the Very Old Men | Nov 20, 2012 12:02am
• Moses and the Gipper and the End of America | Nov 13, 2012 3:00am
• Offices Executive and Divine | Nov 6, 2012 12:02am
• Gratefully Weeping Through the Knox Bible | Oct 23, 2012 12:01am
• The Conceit of Primacy | Oct 16, 2012 2:18am
• U.S. Press Plays Pravda | Sep 25, 2012 1:20am
• 3:00 Prayer in the Year of Faith | Sep 11, 2012 12:12am
• Our Political Idols Won’t Save Us | Sep 4, 2012 1:33am
• Evangelization is Meant to Persuade, not Provoke | Aug 21, 2012 2:48am
• Jesus’s Challenge: “Stand and Deliver” | Aug 7, 2012 12:02am
• May Anger Begin to Abate with Gratitude? | Jul 10, 2012 2:20am
• The Sons of Caesar, Still Pulling Peter Down | Jun 26, 2012 12:48am
• Bong! Boring; Say Something New | Jun 12, 2012 1:23am
• Sigrid Undset’s Essays for our Time | May 29, 2012 12:31am
• Marriage: Not a Right, but an Office | May 15, 2012 12:01am
• The First Rule of Being Cool | May 1, 2012 2:40am
• Orthodoxy and Silence in the Public Square | Apr 17, 2012 12:01am
• Holy Week, Ecce Homo, Ecce Us | Apr 3, 2012 1:12am
• It is Worth Asking, “And then what?” | Mar 27, 2012 12:02am
• Can “Good Faith” Still be Assumed? | Mar 20, 2012 12:01am
• A Mass Less Ordinary | Mar 6, 2012 12:31am
• A Convergence of Conscience and Command | Feb 21, 2012 2:32am
• Obama Has Stranded the Catholic Left | Feb 14, 2012 12:26am
• The Counter-Cultural Church has a Credible “Yes” | Feb 7, 2012 12:49am
• Obamacare’s Great Gift: Clarification | Jan 31, 2012 12:48am
• Is Great Oratory Over and Done? | Jan 24, 2012 12:05am
• Prosperity’s Constant Conflict | Jan 17, 2012 1:27am
• Bringing Death into the Light was Never Crazy | Jan 10, 2012 12:01am
• A Moment of Revelation | Dec 27, 2011 12:08am
• Benedict’s Christocentrism: Realities of a Primary Order | Dec 20, 2011 2:06am
• The Terrifying Tim Tebow | Dec 13, 2011 12:37am
• The Distraction of a Dive-Bombing | Dec 6, 2011 2:10am
• The Shushing Tyranny of “Be Nice!” | Nov 22, 2011 12:01am
• Christ the King and the ’Net Positive | Nov 15, 2011 12:12am
• American Optimism is a Strange God | Nov 8, 2011 1:56am
• O Saints, Teach Us What You Know! | Nov 1, 2011 3:00am
• Revolution is Calling | Oct 18, 2011 1:20am
• Madison Avenue’s Vision of Love | Oct 11, 2011 4:05am
• Legislating the Constitution Down | Oct 4, 2011 12:17am
• Within the Clutch | Sep 27, 2011 12:02am
• Next Election, Don’t Count on the Seniors | Sep 20, 2011 2:08am
• Calling Olly Olly Oxen Free at Ground Zero | Sep 13, 2011 8:10am
• Terry Pratchett and the Thing of Sin | Sep 6, 2011 1:25am
• Impeding Diplomacy with Disdain | Aug 30, 2011 12:36am
• A Love Supreme | Aug 23, 2011 1:54am
• Moments After America | Aug 16, 2011 1:13am
• A President at a Loss | Aug 9, 2011 1:08am
• A Dictatorship of Sentimentalism | Aug 2, 2011 10:20am
• Adult Catechesis and the Sword | Jul 19, 2011 12:03am
• Palin and the Prudes | Jul 12, 2011 3:08am
• Toward the Diamond Path | Jul 5, 2011 3:24am
• Illusions of Equality | Jun 28, 2011 12:49am
• The Substitute for Reason | Jun 21, 2011 12:25am
• Homosexuality: A Call to Otherness? | Jun 14, 2011 12:02am
• Maureen Dowd Pitches Boo | Jun 7, 2011 12:18am
• Lovemaking with the Lights On | May 31, 2011 2:08am
• The Ego vs Meatless Fridays | May 24, 2011 3:19am
• The Efficacy of “No” | May 17, 2011 2:42am
• Offering It Up | May 10, 2011 2:16am
• Finding the Silence of the Romans | May 3, 2011 2:51am
• Shepherds and Stewards in the Son | Apr 26, 2011 1:43am
• Lessons in Blacksmithing | Apr 19, 2011 1:27am
• Another Long Lent, and Broods of Vipers | Apr 12, 2011 1:27am
• The Fast and Slow Growth | Apr 5, 2011 2:08am
• Bone-setting the Faith Needs the Wrap of Reason | Mar 29, 2011 1:49am
• Strange Gods: Toxicity in the Cult of Personality | Mar 22, 2011 12:32am
• James Frey’s Mediocre Messiah | Mar 15, 2011 3:06am
• Something Greater Than Yourself | Mar 8, 2011 1:34am
• The Hate That Feels Like Love | Mar 1, 2011 1:44am
• What Flannery Said! | Feb 22, 2011 12:05am
• Weakness is Sown; Strength Rises Up | Feb 15, 2011 10:19am
• The Eclipsing Vagueness of Egypt | Feb 8, 2011 1:40am
• Gosnell Headlines? Gone, Baby, Gone! | Feb 1, 2011 12:42am
• Uncredentialed Wonder | Jan 25, 2011 12:23am
• An Idol Season | Jan 18, 2011 2:00am
• The Year of Living Anxiously | Jan 11, 2011 8:42am
• Surrender Unto Surrender | Jan 4, 2011 12:25am
• For 2011: Unwrap the Silence | Dec 28, 2010 6:14am
• The Christmas Light in the Shopping Madness | Dec 21, 2010 12:13am
• A Global By-Pass of the Heart | Dec 14, 2010 1:10am
• Ants on a Crucifix in Norman Rockwell’s America | Dec 7, 2010 5:31am
• Rationing Bono & Other Gaia-Saving Ideas | Nov 30, 2010 1:02am
• With the Corpus in the Center | Nov 23, 2010 7:00am
• Why Marxism Always Fails | Nov 16, 2010 1:31am
• Who’s Sorry Now? | Nov 9, 2010 12:03am
• The Quiet Power of Our Sacred Honor | Nov 2, 2010 1:54am
• No Purges in the Family | Oct 26, 2010 12:10am
• The Credentialed Gentry and The Unpersuaded Yahoos | Oct 19, 2010 1:43am
• The Tolerance Disconnect | Oct 12, 2010 12:07am
• The Reasoned Loyalty of Catholicism | Oct 5, 2010 12:03am
• Cheating the Habit of Being | Sep 28, 2010 2:17am
• Defending Christine O’ Donnell | Sep 21, 2010 1:41am
• The Twentieth Century’s Last Great Figures | Sep 14, 2010 12:43am
• The Eternal Shrug of Rome | Sep 7, 2010 12:02am
• The Old Times, the End Times, and Glenn Beck | Aug 31, 2010 1:20am
• Rhetorical Axes and Park51 | Aug 24, 2010 3:31am
• Hating Ourselves to Death | Aug 17, 2010 12:30am
• Love, Limits, and Loss | Aug 10, 2010 2:45am
• Dwelling in the Possibilities of a “Win-Win” | May 21, 2010 1:26am
• Benedict, Off-the-Cuff | Apr 15, 2010 5:14pm
• Ex-Communicating Oneself for Sins of Others | Apr 6, 2010 1:58pm
• Haiti, Stingy America, and Kristof | Jan 18, 2010 1:15am
• Wrangling on Liturgy | Jan 13, 2010 4:32am
• Catherine of Siena: The Unforgettable Fire | Oct 21, 2009 12:19am
• The Toxic Card of Racism Trumps Hearts | Sep 16, 2009 12:30am
• The Catholic Donnybrook; One Kennedy Legacy? | Sep 1, 2009 12:23am
• Tiller, Long, Bonhoeffer, and Assassination | Jun 4, 2009 12:00am
• Paranoia, Pride, and Prejudice | Mar 4, 2009 12:00am