Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 24

If Trump Were an Airline Pilot

Back in 2016, the Right Wing Lie Machine published a famous essay ginning up hysteria among the suckers who have been trained by years and years of Right Wing Lie Machine Panics du Jour to fly into a terror about everything the Lie Machine commands them to fear and lose their sanity about. (Who can […]

A chance to do a work of mercy

Fausta Nalubega writes from Uganda: Dear friends of Mercy For Life Africa ministries, we are sorry to inform you that yesterday in our outreach of praying , giving comfort to the desperate, we got Viola who was in pain ���,with no money for any single treatment, viola is supposed to go for her last operation […]

Cdl. Burke Dissents from the Church’s Teaching

Mike Lewis, over at Where Peter Is, writes: Recent remarks by Cardinal Raymond Leo Burke, captured on audio, prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Burke explicitly rejects the revised teaching on the death penalty in Catechism #2267 and urges catechists not to accept or teach the change that Pope Francis has mandated. On this site, […]

Please help save Olivia’s leg

My friend Fausta Nalubega writes from Uganda: Olivia’s surgery will cost 766$, she will be in hospital for two weeks, this cost has no food � We’re remaining with 176$ for Olivia’s surgery. We still need your help, it’s urgent so that she doesn’t loose her leg….����❤️❤️❤️ Please let us help Olivia All other bills […]

The Silence of the “Prolife” Cult of Trump on Euthanasia

Back in the day, we were instructed that among the Five Non-Negotiables was Euthanasia. Of course, that did not count the euthanasia of people conservatives want put out of their misery on death row. As ever, the Most Wrong Demographic in the Church is passionately in favor of that and is willing to fight the […]

These EONS thingies are fun!

So here’s another one to amuse and edumicate you for a Saturday morning. Also nice Star Trek ref:

The Cult Where Accusation is Always Confession

One of the most notable (and diabolical) features of the Cult of Trump is it’s constant habit of using accusation as a form of confession.  What it declares its enemies guilty of is, again and again, a confession of its own deepest desires and evils.  So, for instance, the great rallying cry of the Cult […]

Listen to the Magisterium, Not Quack Visionaries

Catholic culture is like tofu:  It takes on the flavor of the culture around it.  When Islam took over the Middle East, Christians suddenly starting having cows about veneration of images and the Iconoclast heresy was born.  When Calvinist rigorism was all the rage in 16th century France, Jansenist rigorism  became all the rage in […]

Since it’s Saturday, it’s a good day for studying the genius of Buster Keaton

Also, if you can find it (as I did at Kanopy.com) I highly recommend The Great Buster, a biodocumentary by Peter Bogdanovich. Here’s the trailer:

It’s not just anti-semitism that has infected conservative Catholicism

Here’s an oldie but a goody: I thought of that cartoon as the man who used to be Patrick Coffin, fresh from ginning up nutty conspiracy theories about the pope (which Dawn Eden Goldstein recently chronicled) decided to favor us with this deeply Catholic and definitely not racist observation that certainly has nothing to do […]