Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 143

Mark your calendars to pray for peace tomorrow at 1 PM

For those who think of prayer as a game of “Simon says” and who think the pope somehow a heretic for asking people of different traditions to pray for peace, consider Aslan’s words to Emeth, a sincere worshipper of the false god Tash in C.S. Lewis’ The Last Battle, who is amazed to find himself [Read More...]

A Reader Who Discerned that She is not Called to Religious Life…

writes: Hello Mark, I’m a long-time reader of your blog, and we’ve exchanged a few emails. You and Simcha are about the only Catholic bloggers I can stand to read these days. Thank you so much for posting that beautiful and perfect poem, The Exodus. It expresses everything I have been feeling and thinking about [Read More...]

Leave morality out of lawmaking…

…and you are left with what? All genuine law (as distinct from arbitrary force or tyranny) is nothing but codified morality.

What about retributive justice?

The latest in my series on the death penalty for Catholic Weekly.

Prayer request

A reader writes: Hi Mark. A dear friend of mine has been unconscious in the ICU for 20+ hours. Please storm Heaven that his earthly life does not end. This is an emergency. Thank you. Father, hear our prayer for this man’s complete healing in body, soul, mind, and spirit. Give his caregivers grace, compassion, [Read More...]

Trump steals from children with cancer

He ripped off St. Jude’s. Today’s filthy disgusting thing for “prolife” Christian liars for Jesus to defend instead of the unborn or the gospel. There is no bottom with this guy. And there is no bottom for his tribe of supporters–including the Super Duper Best Christians of All Time who continue to back him because [Read More...]

Dear Hivemind

Help me out here. Aside from pelvic stuff and a super-distorted view of subsidiarity read to mean “I get to keep my stuff and the state can go to hell” what does Party of Trump Catholicism have to say about Catholic social doctrine or any of the Church’s teaching on the second greatest commandment that [Read More...]

The Good News About Trump’s Boorish Insults to the UK

…is that he is too stupid to keep his mouth shut about his Travel Ban and just gives the courts stopping him the ammo they need: Today’s pack of Trumpian lies for “prolife” Christian Trump defenders to defend instead of the unborn. Kellyanne Conway, consummate Catholic liar for Jesus, stains the gospel with her continual [Read More...]

Rod Bennett and I had fun on “Connecting the Dots”

talking about the San Juan Islands, the Pig War, Pickett’s Charge, Hillaire Belloc and assorted gallimaufreys:

Pope Benedict was on to the scam of the Party of Trump in 2010

“If we wish to build true peace, how can we separate, or even set at odds, the protection of the environment and the protection of human life, including the life of the unborn?” — Pope Benedict XVI, Address to the Diplomatic Corps, in 11/01/2010 I wish I had been.  The use of the unborn as [Read More...]