Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 1372

Obama Generously Gives Away Britain's Top Secret Information to Russia

What, I ask you, are friends for?

England: Please, don't thank us. And if you need any more humiliating betrayals, we're just across the Pond, trying to think up new ways to get everybody in the world to hate our guts.

Speaking of which, here's the reliably odious Dick Cheney, pouring forth his admiration for that great man, Hosni Mubarak.

Our ruling classes: perpetually reminding me of Chesterton little poem:

The men that worked for England
They have their graves at home:
And birds and bees of England
About the cross can roam.

But they that fought for England,
Following a falling star,
Alas, alas for England
They have their graves afar.

And they that rule in England,
In stately conclave met,
Alas, alas for England
They have no graves as yet.

Cheer up England! We have inherited your mantle as a nation ruled by fools and knaves.

Oh! And don't forget! The problem is with the people who tell us what our ruling classes are up to, not with our ruling classes.

Golly, what a surprise!

Turns out the Obama Administration wants to sweep abortion under the rug.

Speaking of wanting to sweep abortion under the rug, those valiant paladins of Catholic social justice at the Debate Club at Auschwitz blog, as well as numerous other keepers of the flame of Catholic leftiness have, for all their volubility on dozens of subjects, remained steadfastly silent about, oh, you know, Planned Parenthood and its serial assaults on women. Thomas Peters wonders at the silence.

I don't.

Sanctum sucks

...according to Steve Greydanus. Another entertainment apologetic for evil.

Fascinating

The last living witness to Lincoln's assassination died a year before I was born:



I can't help but have the sensation that culturally, he had more in common with the viewers of this program than we do. The gulf between 1956-2011 is immensely more vast than the one between 1865-1956.

HT: American Catholic, which is keeping track of all the paparrazzi coverage of my lifestyle of the rich and famous.

Speaking of Sherry...

She informs me that there is something called

the "Insider movement" where Muslims who have become followers of Jesus (essentially "Messianic Muslims" who gather in Christian communities that maintain a lot of Muslim cultural forms and stay within a Muslim context. Some would remain active with the local mosque. If there are enough Christian believers, they might start a messianic mosque of their own.

Needless to say, evangelicals are all over this and Catholics almost never know it exists.

But it is estimated that there at least 15 million non-baptized Muslim and Hindu "believers in Jesus" in the Muslim & Hindu worlds.

St. Francis magazine (a Catholic mag) did a very detailed and interested article on this whole phenomena.

15 million. Fascinating. Grace is dark matter, working quietly in the Muslim world while all the headlines are devoted (as usual) to the big and noisy stuff.

Caelum et Terra...

...is back on the air! Rejoice!

The invaluable Sherry Weddell writes...

I have just blogged on an fantastic article in this month's Homiletic and Pastoral Review written by a priest involved in seminary formation in Ohio: "Why Vocation Programs Don't Work." The answer: lack of discipleship. The solution: Become a disciple ourselves and then make disciples.

Incredible - and we've never met him so far as I know. I can't help but wonder if he has an evangelical background of some kind - he was only ordained in 2003.

Save it, read it, quote it, etc.

The woman knows what she's talking about. Listen to her.

Elizabeth Scalia

on the power of art vs. tyranny.

Beauty will save the world. - Dostoyevsky

It is so good to see those belwethers of civilizational change...

the Bangladeshi Muslims, leading the charge against rape by making sure that the 14 year old victims get the beating deaths they deserve for allowing their virginity to be spoilt like that.

Remember: George Soros says the real problem is Israel. Islam isn't chockablock with barbarians who are not even close to ready for civilization or anything.

Am I the only person...

...who finds this headline utterly mysterious?

GALLUP: Obama most polarizing since Eisenhower...


Eisenhower was polarizing? More polarizing than anybody till the present day? Eisenhower? Not Nixon, or Clinton, or Bush 43, but that crazy radical Eisenhower?