Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 116

Greetings from the Fire Nation!

Your puny attempts to break our power during the recent eclipse have failed!  Soon the Fire Benders will rule you all!

What I brought to confession on Saturday

The Sunday readings really spoke to me.  We’ve been spending a lot of time in Jeremiah and his perplexity speaks to me: O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me. For whenever […]

To My Readers in Florida

Here is the map of the devastation caused by Harvey, superimposed on Florida: Irma is already a Cat 5 storm, bigger than Harvey.  And it could become the first Cat 6 storm in history. Get out.  Now.  Right now. Don’t wait for the roads to jam.  Flee north and inland right this minute.  Don’t wait […]

God bless Cardinal Tobin

There is no defense for this.  None. And this is, yes, a prolife issue since many women affected by it are pregnant (not to mention it being a gravely and intrinsically immoral act just like abortion and euthanasia).  Impenitent support for it may send one to a different circle of hell, but that will be […]

Repealing DACA is cruel, stupid, and deeply counterproductive

The bishops oppose it. Even a number of the GOP oppose it.  But Good White Christian Trump supporters defend this wicked cruelty. Try seeing Reason. From a purely economic perspective (which is the least important to Christians who care about the gospel but supposedly the most important to the false Christian freak show of “conservative […]

I would like to recommend Dave Armstrong’s books

I can’t list them all, but here are some good ones: And of course: If you are looking for some useful apologetics material *and* want to help someone whose livelihood comes from serving the gospel, try these.

This deserves a Pulitzer

When Fr. Frank Pavone committed what his own bishop called an act of desecration…

…by putting the corpse of an aborted baby on an altar and giving a 45 minute stump speech for Trump live on line, the usual cries “You must never attack a holy priest” went up. Apparently that’s only true for priests on the correct side of the Culture War: I don’t have anything invested in […]

Stimulus/Response

Stimulus Response: This brutal thug in a uniform behaved in exactly the way he was encouraged to behave, assaulting a completely innocent woman for doing her job and upholding the law. This happened in late July. You didn’t hear about until now because the cop, who was not fired for committing assault, has been protected […]

Damon Lindelof’s Love Letter to “a Perfect Movie”

Raiders of the Lost Ark I concur completely.  Raiders is the quintessential popcorn movie.  It’s what you go to the movies for.  It has everything you ever want it a movie.  And it’s a movie, not a film.   Bergman and Lean and Kurosawa make films.  Spielberg, on occasion, makes a film.  But this was […]