Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 1298

Going to World Youth Day?

There will be a Center for English-Speaking Pilgrims.

Looking for work?

Dear Friends,

We are happy to let you know about two new positions we are currently looking to fill:

West Chester, PA:

We are currently hiring for the position of Administrative Assistant in our West Chester, PA office.  Please see the full job description posted on CatholicJobs.com by clicking here.

Chicago, IL / Necedah, WI:

Catholic Word, the official sales and distribution team for Ascension Press, is currently hiring for the position of Study Consultant in their Chicago-area and/or Necedah, WI locations.  Please see the full job description posted on CatholicJobs.com by clicking here.

Thank you, and God bless.
Chris Cope
Director of Marketing
Ascension Press

The Spectacle of American Politics

So Paul Ryan gets "hounded" by Catholics United (a phony group of shills for the Democrats) who Ryan makes look good.  Result: the pro-aborts chase Ryan around with a Bible and Ryan has to inanely insist that Rand, not Scripture is the place to go for your economics.

The whole "economics is not a moral science" thing seems to be very popular on the Capitalist Right, just as "biology is not a moral science" is very popular on the Pelvic Left.

Like Father, Like Son

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Congratulations, Luke the Nordic Giant, father of The Cuteness!

Speaking of the Cuteness:

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Yesterday, she was tickling Gampa. Ut.ter.ly. A.dor.a.ble.

Christian Aden...

...is rooting for realism.

Abp. Vigneron...

responds to dissenting geezers from the Age of Aquarius.

Birthdays, Spiritual and Physical

In what has to be a sort of divine pun, today is the birthday of my good friend Dale Ahlquist, President of the American Chesterton Society, as well as the spiritual birthday of G.K. Chesterton, who died 75 years ago.

I have a little appreciation of Chesterton up at Headline Bistro today. It barely scratches the surface of the debt I owe this good, great, funny and holy man. But I only had a few hundred words to work with. There are only a few men I consider my spiritual fathers. He is one of them. May God speed the day when he is canonized, I pray through our Lord Jesus.

I just wrote a little refresher on Concupiscence...

... for Crisis. Same basic principles hold true for homosexual temptations as for other disordered appetites. You'd be amazed how many people find this stuff to be news.

Speaking of converts...

Kevin Lowry is what every convert should be: grateful. Conversion is God's gift to us, not our gift to the Church.

Us Struggling Catholic Writers Gotta Help Each Other Out!

My name is Devin Rose, and I just wrote a book called If Protestantism is True. It's a Catholic apologetics book that argues for the Church specifically against the claims of Protestantism. Your book, By What Authority was a big influence on me ten years ago when I became Catholic, and I have recommended it to many people. One of my Baptist friends is reading it right now and told me "this book totally cuts the legs out from underneath Protestantism!" My new book mentions you and By What Authority as well. I would be honored if you checked it out or if you passed it along to your readers.

Looks good to me! Check thou it out, gentle reader!