Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 145

Have I changed my mind about climate change?

A reader writes: Hey, Mark, what happened to your former climate-change skepticism (or perhaps suspension of belief)? Frankly, the less the Church says about things like climate change, the better. It’s way outside the competence of the Magisterium, and way outside the deposit of faith. It is now an article of the Catholic Faith that [Read More...]

Dale Ahlquist on the Chesterton Option

Like Chesterton, he pays generous compliment to Rod Dreher’s Benedict Option before (like me) disagreeing with it as fundamentally a theology of retreat and abandonment of the field instead what the gospel commands: the transformation of the world in Christ. What does he recommend instead? Work to become your own employer rather than someone else’s [Read More...]

How about that?

In other words, the GOP favors Death Panels

Punishing the weak is what the Party of Trump is all about.  And they sell it by persuading their base of cruel, selfish people that their victims will be people weaker, poorer, and darker than themselves. LBJ had it nailed 50 years ago: If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the [Read More...]

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Trump Flips Off Francis, Trumpian Catholics Cheer

American Right Wing Id Monster joins Nicaragua and Syria in rejecting Climate Accord–just for spite. And just days after Francis gave him a copy of Laudato Si, begged him to listen, and Trump lied that he would read it. (It’s longer than 140 characters and Trump’s name is not in it anywhere. Boring.) Me: I [Read More...]

Hey Western Washington!

I’ll be talking about By What Authority? and Sacred Tradition at St. Mary Magdalene parish in Everett tonight at 6:30.  Q and A afterward!

Coptic Orthodox Bishop Has a Message for Terrorists

“You are loved.” The loving witness of the suffering Copts to the true gospel is such a beautiful and heartbreaking contrast to the violent, vengeful, paranoid, greedy, and ugly thing that has seduced “Bomb the Shit Out of Them” Americhristianity.  It breaks my heart with sadness for my country and the spectacle of Trumpian Christianity [Read More...]

Compare and contrast

This response from an immoral godless Clinton in defense of the President from a vile and unfunny “joke”: to Trump’s defense of Ted Nugent’s rant about murdering “subhuman mongrel” Obama and this woman’s mother: Ted Nugent was obviously using a figure of speech, unfortunate as it was. It just shows the anger people have towards [Read More...]

Trump-defending Francis Haters Achieve 12 Dimensional State

…in hypocritical attempt to twist themselves into moral pretzels.  Simcha Fisher observes: It’s really touching to see how so many Catholics now suddenly accept Amoris Laetitia and are eager to see that Catholics* who never attend Mass, got married in an Episcopal church, live in irregular marriages and have a checkered sexual history shouldn’t be [Read More...]