Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 149

37 Years Ago

I was sound asleep while this was happening about 180 miles south of me: Sixty some people died that day. Eternal memory.

Massively Ignorant Bigot and Garrulous Buffoon-in-Chief…

…will give a major speech on Islam in Saudi Arabia. And it’s going to be written by the unbelievably creepy Steve Miller, author of the “American Carnage” inaugural address and a massive Muslim-baiting, police state thug. What could possibly go wrong?

Fatima and a theological reading of history

Bishop Robert Barron on the historic nature of the Christian faith and the insistence that history is ultimately His story: the outworking of the purposes of God in the vast drama and tangle of human history. It is a particularly challenging thing to believe, particularly in an era of history in which Christians, who are [Read More...]

Conservative Christianity is Now Everything it Once Hated

Post-modern, morally relative, and post-truth. That is the development I never anticipated in the 90s when I blithely assumed that conservative Christians were the antidote to the postmodern, relativist and post-truth stuff I was hear from the Left in the academy. Instead, what has happened is that the Right has, to a radical degree, embraced [Read More...]

Bob Mueller in as Special Prosecutor

Everything seems to indicate this guy is the genuine article and the Trump White House has every reason to tremble with fear. Good.

So Here’s Something Fun for the Comboxes!

I sit in a room, staring into space. Periodically, I type things to strangers and hope they don’t hate me for doing that. What do you do?

New U.S. Leader Appointed for World’s Largest Prayer Network

This is a hopeful sign: For Immediate Release (Washington, D.C., May 15, 2017) — The Pope’s Worldwide Prayer Network (PWPN) has announced that Jesuit Father William Blazek will become its U.S. national director next month, succeeding current director Jesuit Father James Kubicki. Founded as the Apostleship of Prayer and recently renamed by Pope Francis, the [Read More...]

My friend Pete Beaulieu goes to my parish we occasionally have breakfast together

He is a sweet, thoughtful soul and has written a book called Beyond Secularism and Jihad?: A Triangular Inquiry into the Mosque, the Manger, and Modernity and Carl Olson recently did an interview with him in Catholic World Report.

Ross Douthat Calls for using the 25th Amendment

…to remove Trump.

This seems like it’s worth supporting

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