Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 30

On the Seal of the Confessional

Livius tells us this story: Pilate, being sent by Tiberius as prefect to Judaea, introduced into Jerusalem by night and under cover the effigies of Caesar which are called standards. This proceeding, when day broke, aroused immense excitement among the Jews; those on the spot were in consternation, considering their laws to have been trampled […]

Nina Butorac is on Catholic and Enjoying It Live! tonight

Catholic and Enjoying It will be on the air live at 7 PM Pacific (10 PM Eastern) every Monday night.  We will be discussing life, the universe, and everything from a Catholic perspective and giving ourselves up to general jollification for the hour.  You can listen here and you can call into the show at 1-866-333-6279 […]

I do not understand people who struggle to understand this pope

I don’t really believe they find him “confusing”. I think they just don’t want to listen to him. Everything you need to know about him is summed up in the words, “He has preached good news to the poor.” His mortal enemies are people who either a) dislike the Church’s teaching on our duty to […]

John Cleese is feeling his way closer to a theistic worldview

Fascinating to watch him breaking with the dim shallow atheism of Dawkins and the pop secular left in Britain: Still plenty for a Catholic to argue with here, of course. But still interesting to watch him feeling his way around the contours of reality in the half-light and work things out. I once held in […]

So Don Johnson, the maker of Convinced wrote me

Convinced, in case you have not heard of it, is a film profiling a bunch of converts to the Catholic faith, including Yr Obdt. Svt.  Here’s the trailer: Here’s a clip of me chatting about the trustworthiness of the gospels: Don is a really nice guy. He’s a convert himself from Evangelicalism who decided he […]

David Frum performs the autopsy on what was really wrong with Trump’s July 4 speech

It’s not the stupid airport gaffe.  It’s not even the massive historical illiteracy.  It’s the pagan Mars worship. Frum writes: As Trump retold the story of the Pacific War, he said this: “Nobody could beat us. Nobody could come close.” When he paid tribute to the Air Force, he said this: “As President Roosevelt said, […]

Deacon Steve Greydanus Gave a Great Homily

He published it over at the Register.  Here’s a good chunk of it: Jesus’ Hard Words About Family Ties The fact is, Jesus often seems to downplay family ties, including filial piety. Later in Luke’s Gospel he says: If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife […]

The basic difference between me and the “prolife” movement…

…is that they want to outlaw abortion. I want to end it. What’s that mean? It means, among other things that I want to do things that will actually reduce the rate of abortion, while much of the prolife movement is hell bent for leather on doing symbolic crap that makes them feel good while […]

Still Catholic, Still Prolife, But No Longer Part of the “Prolife Movement”

I reckon myself Catholic these days but no longer identify with what is commonly called the “prolife movement” since that movement primarily exists to use the unborn as human shields for a host of evils it really exists to defend. I am happy to make common cause with people who espouse a consistent life ethic. […]

Rod Bennett on Catholic and Enjoying it! tonight!

Catholic and Enjoying It will be on the air live at 7 PM Pacific (10 PM Eastern) every Monday night.  We will be discussing life, the universe, and everything from a Catholic perspective and giving ourselves up to general jollification for the hour.  You can listen here and you can call into the show at 1-866-333-6279 […]