Elizabeth Scalia is the Catholic Portal's Managing Editor at Patheos, an online magazine that deals with religious topics. She also maintains a blog there, The Anchoress, formerly hosted at First Things magazine—when it maintained a more extensive stable of in-house bloggers. Scalia is now a columnist at First Things. She is not related to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.[1]
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The blog name and Internet handle "The Anchoress" is derived from the term Anchorite, and appears to underscore the contemplative side of her nature. Scalia sometimes focuses on pro-life issues, but also endorsed Rudy Giuliani as a U.S. presidential candidate in 2008, despite his pro-choice positions; she was criticized for this by other pro-lifers.
The Anchoress blog focuses on politics, current events, New York Yankees baseball, pop culture, and Catholic issues. Scalia uses her own name for published articles (e.g., on Pajamas Media) and for public appearances, but is often known as The Anchoress among bloggers and in the online world. The Anchoress was described by CBS News' Public Eye as "one of the blogosphere's most mysterious and interesting voices," [2] when it invited her to contribute to its "Outside Voices" column as a guest. Scalia's posts range from discussions that are downright gritty or urban in nature (such as a lighthearted takeoff on The Vagina Monologues [3]), to the spiritual and esoteric (for instance, deeper meanings within the rosary).[4]
Scalia has also done a series of podcasts on the Rosary, and has contributed to National Public Radio as well as to Pajamas Media.[5][6] In conjunction with Our Sunday Visitor, she wrote a special rosary for the unemployed, which is available in pamphlet form.[7] Scalia has appeared extensively on In the Arena, "a current events and public affairs interview program" which is part of NET, "a faith-centered cable TV network".[8]
Scalia is married and has two sons.