Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 114

Genuine, real, not kidding kudos to Trump

My sense is that he’s not really comfortable with rescinding DACA, but “because of his oaths and his guests” (Mt 14:9) he picked this awkward way to placate his base of white supremacists who love this sort of mindless cruelty and who, in particular, love watching him destroy anything Obama did, even if it makes perfect […]

Catholic TV Fundraiser coming up this weekend

Bishop Robert Reed (not the guy from the Brady Bunch but a different Robert Reed) writes: Dear friends, The annual Telethon for The CatholicTV Network is coming up on September 15-16. Our ministry here at CatholicTV is essential not only for the homebound who depend on us for the Mass, but also for a wide […]

Interesting Profile of Derya Little…

A convert to Catholic faith from Islam. We crossed paths recently when I was sent the MSS of her new book: It’s a fascinating story and has a very personal connection for me. In the course of her journey, she wound up reading By What Authority?, becoming perhaps the last person on planet Earth I […]

Where can you find some of the most vicious anti-Catholic commentary?

From Catholics, especially super duper prolife Catholics, responding to the bishops teaching anything that challenges the dogmas of FOX or the Party of Trump. Here, for instance, is notable leftwing liberal babykiller Archbishop Chaput, challenging Trump’s rescinding of DACA and making the obvious and humane plea not to threaten 800,000 innocent, hard-working Americans with the […]

Pope Uses Term “Airy Fairy”

He also, by the way, make the obvious point (battled tooth and nail by Catholic who deem themselves far better Catholics than he) that being prolife life means embracing the whole of the Church’s teaching and not just the anti-abortion bit useful to GOP poseurs: Then, in a highly significant remark, Pope Francis referred to […]

Kidnapped Indian Priest Freed After 18 Months

Prayers are heard and grace breaks into the world yet again: Kidnapped Indian priest Fr Tom Uzhunnalil has been freed from captivity and flown to Oman, the country’s government has said. Fr Tom was kidnapped when his care home in the Yemeni city of Aden was attacked in March 2016. Four gunmen posing as relatives […]

The Latest Conspiracy Theory…

…being encouraged and promoted at kook sites like 1 Peter 5 is that Pope Francis is having the dubia cardinals rubbed out. It occasioned a reflection on my view of most conspiracy theories over at the Catholic Weekly. Here’s a taste. By the way, the captions on the photos they picked killed me. I have […]

Brendan O’Neill is an atheist…

…but he justly comes to the defense of Jacob Rees-Mogg and confronts the suggestion that Catholics should simply be banished from public life in Britain. That Rees-Mogg is being singled out for a more savage-than-usual Twittermobbing and media criticism is clear if one compares him with Muslim public figures. There are many Muslims in public […]

Deacon Steven Greydanus Brings the Truth

regarding the recission of DACA and all the terrible excuses being made for doing so.  I agree with every word of this: So Pope Francis, in one of his freewheeling airplane interviews, has taken a shot at President Trump’s rescission of DACA, stipulating (correctly of course) that recognizing the importance of families staying together is […]

Hey Western Washington! Come and Learn about the Blessed Virgin Mary

…at Holy Family parish in Kirkland, tomorrow night, September 13 at 7:00 PM! I will be there to talk about Mary, her role in the life and devotion of the Church, and they way in which she, the last gift God gave us before he left this life, shows us how to be better disciples. […]