Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 178

Catholics Pharmacists are Threatened in the UK

…and need to have their rights of conscience protected. It will soon be so here.

On the air with Doug O’Brien at 5 PM Eastern…

…on Connecting the Dots.  Give us a call at 1-573-4BREAD4.

Some good old-fashioned Irish pulling of a tyrant’s nose

…done, in the Irish fashion, right to his face: "We were the wretched refuse on the teeming shore," Irish prime minister says with Donald Trump in the room. pic.twitter.com/7jEfTVvIzE — Barry Malone (@malonebarry) March 17, 2017

Prayer Request

A reader writes: A friend just had a kidney auto transplant and is having major complications. If you could pray that the kidney somehow starts working, that they find out where he is bleeding internally, and that they get his pain under control it would be appreciated. He is in very poor spirits. He had [Read More...]

Deacon Steve Greydanus is Right

Sez he: Happy St Patrick’s Day! If you’re Catholic, and you have a Saint Patrick’s Day dispensation from your bishop to eat corned beef on a Friday in Lent, it’s no big deal. Enjoy. If six (or five) meatless Fridays and two days of “fasting” and abstinence a year is the extent of ascesis in [Read More...]

“Humans invent deities, so God does not exist”…

said the atheist. “My grand-daughter invents dragons, so dinosaurs do not exist,” said I. “But I would bet that you would have no problem calling the God/s of other religions “invented”…so what makes yours any different…. other than you have the faith in yours and not theirs?” said another atheist. To which I replied: It’s [Read More...]

Black is White, Freedom is Slavery, War is Peace

Sexual assault is locker room talk, microwaves are cameras, and sending hungry kids and old people away is compassion: Crooks and liars, the lot of them. And this is what “faithful prolife” Catholics are now, in overwhelming numbers, committed to defending and eager to be remembered for. It will take a generation for the Church’s [Read More...]

Yesterday, Rod Bennett and I talked about everything…

from the sun to structures of sin on Connecting the Dots:

Prayer Request

A reader writes: Could I also ask for prayers? My husband is still out of work and not doing well. Thank you. Father, swiftly give this man a good job at a living wage through your Son Jesus Christ.  Mother Mary and St. Joseph, pray for him and his family.

Lovely story from about a month ago…

…about Christians and Muslims getting together to share a meal reminds me of something that happened to us about a week ago. So we are sitting here watching a movie and there’s a knock at the door. We open it and there is a family on our doorstep. It’s a man in wheelchair, his wife, [Read More...]