Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 141

In an age when the state is dominated by crooks and liars..

…using God and the unborn as shields for grinding the faces of the least of these and robbing us blind, the USCCB shouts into the wind, saying “Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”

Georgia GOP candidate rejects “livable wage”

To be plain, what she wants is wage slavery. The teaching of the Church is plain and commonsensical;  people should be paid enough so they can live, provide for a family, contribute to the community, and lead a reasonable and humane life: Let the working man and the employer make free agreements, and in particular [Read More...]

The Insanity of the “Prolife” Conservative Catholic

…is that a sane request not to doom 23 million poor people to suffering and death such as this one: I wanted to touch base to let you know that the faith community is doing all it can to protect health care for millions of people who are slated to lose coverage should the American [Read More...]

There’s Nothing Quite So Funny…

…as a dumb criminal.

Had a great conversation with my friend Ken Kiesow

…on depression, hope, and healing on Connecting the Dots:

So grateful for a lovely Trinity Sunday

Due to a bunch of scheduling thingies, it looked for a while like Jan was going to have to go to St. Pius up the street while I would have to go to Blessed Sacrament alone. But at the last minute, we figured out we could both go to St. Pius, which really meant a [Read More...]

Please help a woman raise $25,000 for surgery

Go here to help. She has raised less than a third of what she need in four months.  Less than a third. I get these pleas all the time from readers trapped in our third world health care system. It is criminal that this poor woman needs to busk on the internet in order to obtain [Read More...]

Nice Piece on Alvin Plantinga…

over at First Things We obviously don’t see eye to eye on everything since he is Dutch Reformed, but it’s a good precis of his work. He has been particularly useful in answering the New Atheists, whose work so often makes me feel embarrassed for atheists. The biggest challenge to the Faith is, as ever, [Read More...]

What Christian Trump Supporters will be remembered for

Today thing for “prolife” Trump supporters to defend instead of the unborn or the gospel. Every day.  For the rest of this Administration–and on into eternity.

Prayer request

A reader writes: Could you please pray for my daughter. She is close to being homeless and has been involved with dark things. She needs a miracle to get her self out of this predicament. I am praying a novena to Our lady undoer of Knots but need more people of prayer to help out. [Read More...]