Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 175

It’s official. You’re paying for the wall, not Mexico

Trump’s whole adult life is one long trail of betrayals. This is just one more. Just like his betrayal of the poor who believed his lies and voted for him. Of course, his wives could tell you about that too. Time was when the Party of Personal Responsibility said, “Character matters” but they prostituted that [Read More...]

Jason Stellman is here to Make Christianity Great Again…

…in five easy steps.  Step 2: Keep Heaven Safe You know the old saying: “When it comes to real estate, it’s location, location, location.” If that’s true of earth, how much more true is it of heaven! If there’s one factor that can drive down property values, it’s when your neighborhood starts being moved into [Read More...]

Rod Bennett and I, being Rod Bennett and I…

…talked about who would win in a battle royale between the Hulk and Dracula. Also Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, the death penalty and Just War. When we say we’re Catholic we aren’t kidding around.

It’s a good thing we did not appoint Garland to SCOTUS

…or elect Hillary Clinton, because then we would have gotten a SCOTUS judge who insisted a fetus is not a person and Roe is settled law: For this, O “prolife” Trump defenders, you have chosen to go to the mat defending a white supremacist sex predator who represents the utter antithesis of the gospel in [Read More...]

And Jesus Said Unto Paul of Ryan…

Nicholas Kristof on the bizarre funhouse parody of the gospel that Ryan and the rest of the Party of Trump have embraced.  It’s pretty funny.  And dead on. “Oh, but nobody objects to private charity for the poor and sick.  But Jesus never said the state should do it.  When the state takes my money [Read More...]

The Right to Healthcare is Owed…

…not earned.  Why?  For the same reason that a baby has a right to be born.  The right to health care is simply the right to life extended beyond birth.  It’s part of taking seriously the right to life from conception to natural death.  That this is scandalous or even difficult for prolife Catholics to [Read More...]

Steve King Thinks Alex Wagner is a Threat to Civilization

for the sin of being brown. King is a Catholic–and a heretic and his very public racism is as much a scandal as Catholics for a Free Choice.: We cannot truly call on God, the Father of all, if we refuse to treat in a brotherly way any man, created as he is in the image [Read More...]

Puny Little Bully in Chief Goes After Teenage Girl…

for making a little website mocking him (it feature kitten punching Trump). Noting this on Facebook I received in reply the epitaph of the Christian Trumpified Right from a reader who was, I assure you, not speaking ironically: “In France, the crime of insulting the president can carry a fine of up to 45,000 euros. [Read More...]

Remember when the Party of God and Life talked about death panels

…and pretended to care about the disabled, whom the liberals were itching to kill? Here’s the thing: Trumpcare will cut $880 billion from Medicaid in the next decade. It will force states to have to decide whether to provide healthcare to the elderly in nursing homes, to children, or to the disabled. The disabled, knowing [Read More...]

Yesterday, we talked with Brandon Vogt…

…about his work with Bishop Robert Barron and his new Claritas U project on Connecting the Dots: