I feel affirmed in my okayness…
July 17, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
...Jonah Goldberg at the hard Left National Review re-says what I've been saying for months: that shouting "But Hillary!" has become the sole brain-dead response of the Trump defender and it is a lie and an intellectually vacuous rationale for supporting this transparent crook and liar.Also, Mona Charen stacks up actual facts against the mass of ridiculous lies from those who moan "Witch Hunt" in defense of Trump.The tragic part of both pieces is the combox comments from the postmodern … [Read More...]
What Pope Benedict XVI Actually Said
July 17, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
A word of greeting from Benedict XVI, Pope Emeritus, on the occasion of the funeral Mass of Cardinal Joachim Meisner, on 15th July 2017 In this hour, when the Church of Cologne and believers further afield take their leave of Cardinal Joachim Meissner, I am with them in my heart and thoughts and am pleased to accede to Cardinal Woelki’s wish and address a word of reflection to them. When I heard last Wednesday by telephone of the death of Cardinal Meissner, I could not believe it at first. We h … [Read More...]
The Great Contradiction of the Prolife Right
July 17, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
A consistent life ethic simply has to mean support for a social safety net for poor mothers. But the great commitment of the prolife right to a libertarian economic vision that is guaranteed to actively punish poor women makes certain that abortion rates will climb if it is enacted. Because Libertarianism is, at bottom, the insistence that property rights are absolute and human life takes a back seat my right to my stuff.Catholic social teaching, in contrast, has always insisted that p … [Read More...]
Desperate Prayer Request
July 16, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
A reader writes:Please pray for my family. My husband has lost his job. All of our savings were put into that small business. So we basically have nothing to fall back on. My husband was considered to be a contractor with the company that laid him off, so he will not be getting a severance package. We will also be losing our health insurance shortly. Nothing brings health insurance into a new light like losing health insurance for your three kids. I don't so much worry about myself, as I … [Read More...]
Jim Carrey sounds like somebody who has experienced anguish and grace
July 15, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
God bless him as he tries to follow the light Christ sends him. His theology is not perfect, no. But he seem to me to be somebody who is at Openness to Christ (to use Weddellian Spiritual Threshold language). How much better this is than so much of the radical selfishness and power worship that … [Read More...]
Hilarious, but also significant
July 15, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
That a major corporation is willing to put its logo on a criticism of this oaf's swinish behavior is a rather remarkable bit of corporate courage. … [Read More...]
Much freakoutery today
July 14, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
in St. Blog's about that Civilta Cattolica piece critiquing Church Militant and pointing out the absurdity of the "Trump=Constantine/Hillary=Diocletian" blather of the Greatest Catholics of All Time. It's a perfectly sensible analysis of the special dumbness of trying to making *this* guy God's … [Read More...]
Catholics and Lutherans Stand Together
July 14, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
in the "ecumenism of the trenches" to oppose the Culture of Death that seeks to deprive more than 20 million of the least of these of access to health care. Bravo! … [Read More...]
Not Fake News
July 14, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
Pope Posts "No Whining" Sign on His Office DoorNo. Really:A sign posted outside the door of Pope Francis’ office in the Domus Sanctae Marthae that reads “No whining” (Photo courtesy Vatican Insider/La Stampa)I love this guy so much. … [Read More...]
Atheist Poet Becomes Catholic
July 14, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
I love the different ways Jesus reaches people: "It was around this time that Read found something fresh in one of her favorite books, 'I Capture the Castle.' 'The book was written for children, and I read it almost every year,' Read says. 'I read the book for comfort. There’s one scene where the p … [Read More...]
La Civilta Cattolica has a very intelligent piece
July 13, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
on "Evangelical Fundamentalism and Catholic Integralism in the USA: A surprising ecumenism". Check it out! … [Read More...]
Hey Seattle!
July 13, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
I'm speaking about Mary tonight at 7 PM at Our Lady of Fatima parish. I look forward to seeing you there! … [Read More...]
Something Astonishing Happened to Me This Weekend
July 13, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
I went to a strange and beautiful planet and saw incredible things!My latest at the Catholic Weekly. … [Read More...]
The Devil You Don’t Know
July 12, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
Here's a little piece on the Church's tradition concerning the demonic that I wrote for Our Sunday Visitor recently. … [Read More...]
Sean Hannity, the Incarnation of the Right Wing Gutter Press, to Get Buckley Award
July 12, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
It's like giving Ann Coulter some award for Greatness in American Letters named for Flannery O'Connor. It doesn't elevate Coulter. It just insults O'Connor.NY Times on the Hugo Awardification of the Right Wing Noise Machine:Fox News host Sean Hannity will receive the William F. Buckley Jr. … [Read More...]
How Trump’s Collusion with Russia to Tamper with the Election
July 12, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
...affected his campaign and the GOP party platform on Ukraine.National Review gets it. As of now, we should have zero confidence that we know all or even most material facts. We should have zero confidence that Trump’s frustration is entirely due to his feeling like an innocent man caught in t … [Read More...]
Steve Greydanus and I talked…
July 11, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
about Spiderman: Homecoming, friendship, War of the Planet of the Apes, Charlie Gard, bad threequels and sundry other stuff on Connecting the Dots Podcast … [Read More...]
Just to recap
July 11, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
Donald Trump, Jr consciously tried to collude with the Russians to tamper with the election. Manafort and Kushner were in on it too.If you believe Daddy did not know about it, I have a bridge to sell you.Did Donald Trump himself know? It would be remarkable if he didn’t. It would mean his s … [Read More...]
Save Yourself from This Corrupt Generation
July 11, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
"Any citizen of the United States, wherever he may be, who, without authority of the United States, directly or indirectly commences or carries on any correspondence or intercourse with any foreign government or any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any … [Read More...]
Please pray for a couple of friends who are struggling with depression
July 11, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
Father, hear our prayer for this husband and wife. Give them complete healing in body, soul, mind, and spirit. Give their caregivers grace, compassion, wisdom, counsel, understanding, skill, creativity, and the proper technology to assist in their healing and give them and all who love them grace, … [Read More...]
Another Refugee from the Anti-Abortion-But-Not-Prolife Cult Speaks Out
July 11, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
Leticia Adams, who still (duh) opposes abortion baffles readers by asserting the radical notion that 1) it is wrong to use the unborn as human shields for every right wing culture of death agenda item and 2) that the real task of the prolife person is to protect human life from conception to natural … [Read More...]
The Case Against Cardinal Pell…
July 11, 2017 By Mark Shea Leave a Comment
...looks mighty sketchy.I can see why he's looking forward to his day in court. We'll see, but color me skeptical on this one. … [Read More...]
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