Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 144

Lies vs. Truth, not Humility vs. Elitism

Ezra Klein remarks on this piece about the sheer bullshit that flows in an endless stream from the mouth of Donald Trump and from the pack of professional liars who work for him and for the Right Wing Noise Machine: Trump’s tactics, in a different context, would be understood as typical authoritarian propaganda — regimes [Read More...]

When the Pope says we have a responsibility to care for creation

…and does the standard Catholic thing of making use of the best of human knowledge in navigating the signs of the times, the experts on Prudential Judgment in the Right Wing Noise Machine say “Shut up! What do you know about climate science?” Strangely, they do not say that when he makes remarks pertaining to [Read More...]

A cheering letter for Pentecost week

A reader wrote me a few weeks back, but I’ve only now gotten to my mail: I thought of you during the first reading at Mass this past Sunday, specifically the following words: “Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and they asked Peter and the other apostles, ‘What are we [Read More...]

Steven Greydanus Keeps Speaking the Truth

He writes: The good news is that it turns out there are still some over-the-top horrifically offensive things you can say that can apparently get you fired from Breitbart, such as: British settlers built the USA. "Slaves” built the country much as cows “built” McDonald’s. Amateur… https://t.co/bOIXSpbpxB — Katie McHugh

John Oliver Continues his Mission of Speaking Truth to Lies

in his NSFW way:

St. Basil the Great, More Relevant Than Ever

The Limits of Planned Parenthood’s Storytelling

A typically perceptive essay from Leah Libresco Sargeant.

How to Build an Autocracy

David Frum got canned by FOX for refusing to mouth the party line of the Party of Trump and has been a loud voice warning of the dangers of this autocratic con man. The (((Alt Right))) hates him because, you know, Jewish. But he’s been a prescient critic of the menace Trump and his party [Read More...]

Warrior Cops Make War…

…on a seven year old special needs boy in a Dallas sch0ol.  Showing the child who is boss, he was tased, choked, bruised, and handcuffed.  Real men. Warrior cops are trained to make war on a subject population.  Guardian cops are trained to guard citizens of a free republic. Guardian cops, not warrior cops are [Read More...]

Conservative Catholic Trump Supporters…

…are the people Conservative Catholics warned you against 12 years ago. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one’s own ego and desires. – Pope Benedict XVI, 2005 And the bizarre thing is that many of the people who most passionately [Read More...]