Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 139

Take a Band Name and Make it Catholic

Examples: The Beatitudeles, Gladys Knight and the Pyx, Ignatius Pop People on Facebook lost their minds with this came up with hundreds of brilliant names.  Knock yerselves out.

Prolife Judge Deports Pregnant Illegal Immigrant…

Allows Fetus to Stay Eye of the Tiber does Swift proud: Prolife judge Anthony Gabel ordered Fairuz Naoum, a pregnant illegal immigrant, to be deported back to Iraq last week, just moments before giving her unborn baby permission to stay in the United States. Gabel told EOTT this morning that 27-year-old Naoum, a Christian living [Read More...]

Dear Criminal Element

If you decide to pull of a $30,000 tech heist, be sure the tech you steal is not GPS tracking devices: This Way, Gang! A burglary of a Silicon Valley tech company netted $30,000 worth of equipment, including computers. The thief was easy to track down, but not because he was injured in the break-in, [Read More...]

YouCat Releases YouRose

…the new fidget spinner rosary. I love Eye of the Tiber.

In your face, Scott Eric Alt!

A reader writes: Maggie Gallagher posted an article saying that perhaps Pope Francis shouldn’t be dismissed as a liberal, and people are posting in the comments accusing her of “Mark Shea-ism” Hah!  It’s not “Scott Eric Alt-ism”!  You suck!

An Aussie Reader with a Cryptic Sense of Humor…

…writes to inform me: The state border between Western Australia and the rest of the great continent of Australia is the last surviving line of the Papal Line of Demarcation established by Pope Alexander VI in 1493 dividing the known world between the Spanish and the Portuguese. No Trump supporters will know how to respond. [Read More...]

I’ve been getting questions about my views…

…on Fr. James Martin’s new book, Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter Into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity. As I have mentioned in the past, my habit with regard to temptations I do not experience myself is to refrain from handing out free advice.  In this, I [Read More...]

There’s a new biography out about Irena Sendler…

…who saved 2500 Jewish children from death during the Holocaust.  She personifies the truth that grace is dark matter, hidden, quiet, unnoticed by the whole world, and yet constituting the force that hold the universe together.  How many Irena Sendlers are there that go utterly unnoticed in this life and yet who are, in fact, [Read More...]

Bishop Robert Barron offers a typically generous assessment…

…of Martin Luther–and manages to work Dylan into the conversation too. I think here of a distant spiritual descendent of Martin Luther, the Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. After his conversion to evangelical Christianity, Dylan wrote a lovely song called Saving Grace, which includes the lines, “I look around this old world/ And all that I’m [Read More...]

This killed me

There’s no humor like British humor: