Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 121

In recognition that not all Donalds are treasonous Nazi sympathizers…

Jesus the Imagination

A Journal of Spiritual Revolution is now available at Amazon: “Our intention is not altogether modest: the regeneration of Christian art and culture.”—Michael Martin Why should Christians read Meister Eckhart, Simone Weil, and William Blake? How do the mystic and the artist invite us to encounter the mystery of Christ’s being in the world? What […]

The Malignant Creeps of the Alt Right…

are figuring out ways to freshen up their message and make it a bit tonier for people who prefer their white supremacy with Splenda rather than heroin. Joshua Cohen rolls up his sleeves and wades like Humphrey Bogart into the swamp in The African Queen to sort out the different kinds of leeches who populate […]

On the Feast of the Assumption

We remember that Jesus and our Lady reject racism:

How good and pleasant it is when eugenicists dwell together in unity

Here are some clouds the size of a man’s hand pointing the way forward for the postmodern Left and Right to come to happy concord in the oppression of the weak by the strong.  In no particular order: Racist judge tells inmates they can cut their sentences if they will only cut their vas deferens […]

Help Send Some Beautiful Kids to School!

Here is a work of mercy for some wonderful people: The school age children in Kampala, Uganda are great. Every one of them. They are trim, happy, physically fit, very well-adjusted, and by simply looking in their eyes in photos, intelligence can be seen as is true with this photo. Each term we do a […]

So my little book Mercy Works is now available

in a veritable plethora of digital forms.  These include: Kindle: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B072XR2KYJ Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/merc... iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/book/id12... And, of course, you can still order dead tree version right from me, signed and everything, just by clicking on the pretty cover:

Here’s today’s chance for a work of mercy

Iraqi Christians are racing against time If they don’t soon reclaim their homes on the Nineveh Plains, Christianity in Iraq will be at grave risk By Joop Koopman Before ISIS swept across the Nineveh Plains in the summer of 2014, driving more than 100,000 Christians into exile in Kurdistan, some 5,000 Syriac-Catholic families made their […]

Statements from Abp. Charles Chaput and the USCCB

regarding Charlottesville: Racism is a poison of the soul. It’s the ugly, original sin of our country, an illness that has never fully healed. Blending it with the Nazi salute, the relic of a regime that murdered millions, compounds the obscenity. Thus the wave of public anger about white nationalist events in Charlottesville this weekend […]

Just learned about the heroic Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso

This guy is the real deal.  While still a priest in Dallas, he gave up a kidney for a parishioner who needed one. Now that he is a bishop, he goes to bat for his flock, especially the poorest of them. Here he is, attending an ICE hearing and pleading for a mother our brutal […]