Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 146

Steven Spielberg is bringing back the Animaniacs

Let joy be unconfined!

A Dem Prolifer asks…

“Will my party accept me?” Perez and similar draconian ideologues thought that a moment when it is all hands on deck to stop the Party of Trump was an excellent time to tell 25-30% of their base who are allies on virtually every issue but abortion to get lost. Pelosi, Warren, and others intervened and [Read More...]

Hopeful Signs

A video protesting Radical Islamic nutjobs has gone viral in the Middle East. 30,000 Muslims in the UK marched against ISIS.  Why didn’t we hear about it? Also, the Muslim community tried to warn the cops about the bomber.  They didn’t listen.  The failure of the cops should not blind us to the fact that [Read More...]

Prayer Request

A reader writes: Mark, please share this prayer request through any social media or blog. I was part of the Catholic blogosphere many years ago under the name Mephibosheth and the blog “And Also with You.” I was moved by Simcha’s recent news because we are going through the exact same experience. My mother has [Read More...]

Serial Killer Released After Explaining…

…that killing was only 3% of what he did. It was only 300,000 victims a year.  He’s actually a hero when you think about it, mentally, I mean.

The Prophet Chesterton on the Anarchy of the Rich

From The Man Who Was Thursday, one of the strangest and most novels ever written: You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being [Read More...]

Please pray for Simcha Fisher and her family

Her mother has advanced Alzheimer’s and it’s a trying time right now.

Two Heroes

One man died with the words a saint might say on his lips: “He said, ‘Tell them, I want everybody to know, I want everybody on the train to know, I love them.'” Another was a heroic Catholic father of four. Both stepped forward to defend two women from a white racist who wrote this: [Read More...]

News flash!

White House had a Communications Director! He just quit because who wouldn’t? Startling news for people amazed at the communications chaos pouring from the most incompetent Administration in US history. Meanwhile, I am reminded of Chesterton’s remark that the principle work of newspapers is announcing “Admiral Bangs is Dead!” to a world that never knew [Read More...]

The Island

A ferry, green and white, chased by gulls’ cries threads waters skinned with dancing diamonds and blows its great horn to announce Work dies and Play bursts its chrysalis in the sun. We camp in a place where nothing happens. A dramatist’s desert, where story starves for lack of conflict but poems a pen pours out [Read More...]