Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 31

Since the last Saturday post was so fun…

…I thought it would be good to hear another amazing history (this time of Japan) from the amazing Bill Wurtz: Now I know about the history of Japan, sort of. And so do you. Depending on how much you knew before, you are either smarter or dumber about that history. I’m definitely way smarter, and […]

My quick review of Rim of the World

Man, did Rim of the World suck. The basic elevator pitch premise is four kids at summer camp have to save the world from an alien invasion. It’s a super lame attempt to cash in on Stranger Things that doesn’t even try to make sense while using every “misfit kids become BFFs at the mall” […]

President Bart Simpson gives his book report on the Revolutionary War of 1812

“In June of 1775, the Continental Congress created a unified Army out of the Revolutionary Forces encamped around Boston and New York, and named after the great George Washington, commander in chief. The Continental Army suffered a bitter winter of Valley Forge, found glory across the waters of the Delaware and seized victory from Cornwallis […]

Deacon Steven Greydanus and I had a lot of fun on Catholic and Enjoying It Live!

We talked Spiderman (both Into the Spiderverse and Far from Home) and Avengers: Endgame, as well as discussing his thoughts on secular apocalypses.  We also spent some time on the storied career of Franco Zeffirelli and the fascinating paradoxes of a man who was a great artist, a deeply committed and believing Catholic, a political […]

Thoughts on Self-Evident Truths

I wrote this nearly 20 years ago on the occasion of the Fourth of July. I still believe as I still believe everthing I believed (theologically) 20 years ago. What I never imagined then was that the people who talked about accepting the whole teaching of the Church and not being cafeteria Catholics would be […]

Had Timothy Putnam on the relaunch of Catholic and Enjoying Live!

It re-launched June 17. Tim Putnam is the host of Outside the Walls radio program, and serves Holy Rosary parish in Edmonds, Washington as the director of Faith Formation and Evangelization. He and his wife are expecting their eighth child in September. We had a pretty wide-ranging conversation and we had fun. Give it a […]

Some of the many things the “prolife” Trump supporter will spend today defending instead of defending the unborn

Making three year olds act as their own attorney in our immigration kangaroo courts. Faking outrage on behalf of allegedly “insulted Jews” that Trump’s concentration camps for children are called “concentration camps”.  This just got a lot harder, but they will continue to maintain that lie because lying for Trump is what “prolife” Christianist Trump […]

Listen to Catholic and Enjoying It! tonight on Radio Maria

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 […]

Pius XI, Komminnissist

Here’s some emphatically non-Libertarian stuff from Casti Connubii: 120. If, however, for this purpose, private resources do not suffice, it is the duty of the public authority to supply for the insufficient forces of individual effort, particularly in a matter which is of such importance to the common weal, touching as it does the maintenance […]

So this is pretty amazing…

It leaves out a tiny bit of detail, but it actually does a pretty good job of giving us an overview. Yes, I’m aware he does not really get it about Jesus, but then I don’t expect unbelievers to do that. Anyway, something fun and educational for a Saturday morning.