Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 81

Typically interesting take on The Shape of Water…

…by Bishop Robert Barron, who manages to work the thought of Paul Tillich in, which is not something you run into in most film reviews: All of this actually put me in mind of Paul Tillich, one of the most significant Christian theologians of the last century. In his massive Systematic Theology, Tillich presented what he […]

Australia Religious Sisters Fundraiser

A reader writes: I hope you’re keeping well! I’m writing because I wanted to let you know about some religious sisters (Sisters of the Immaculata) in Tasmania, Australia who are currently trying to raise money to buy land for a convent. They need to raise $295,000 (Australian, so slightly less in US dollars haha) by […]

The Austin bomber is caught and, golly, turns out to be a white male Evangelical Christianist…

…and not brown or a Muslim at all.  Who could possibly have anticipated that? Indeed, the Austin bomber was the archetypal white male Christianist “prolife” conservative: Homeschooled, domineering, went to a little Evangelical Church. With all the standard-issue views of a Trumpian. In 2012, when he was 17 years old, Austin bombing suspect Mark Conditt laid […]

Fifteen Years Ago…

…two popes and all the bishops of the world said invading Iraq was a massively stupid idea that did not meet the criteria for Just War–and that it would result in calamity. American conservative Christianists said, “Screw ’em.  Let’s go!” and embarked on a catastrophe for which we are still paying a steep cost and […]

Prolife Democrat Lipinski beats prochoice Dem

The idea that Dems are all lockstep pro-choice zealots took a beating yesterday as Dan Lipinski won out over an attempt to crush the prolife witness in Democrat ranks. One wonders if the Dems will learn anything from this. Meanwhile in the freak show that is now the Party of Trump, the Republican winner was […]

Applied Scripture

Winnipeg woman gives eggnog and ginger snaps to burglar On that cold winter day, her back door was swinging wide open, her belongings from her basement were scattered in her upstairs kitchen and an old jacket she owned was outside in the snow. Ross panicked, called her neighbours, the church across the street and 911. […]

Deaths in Puerto Rico have doubled since the storm

…and nobody notices or cares. If you want to help Puerto Rico, Charity Navigator is a hugely helpful site for sorting the reliable relief organizations from the scams.  Please do what you can to pitch in.  Your generosity has always been phenomenal.  Please help the people of Puerto Rico recover from this disaster.

I love this story of the Church acting like the Church to the homeless

A Church opens its pews to homeless people who just need to sleep: Lack of sleep is one of the most critical health issues for the homeless. An average of 225 homeless people seek safety and rest on the pews in the sanctuary of St. Boniface church in San Francisco every day, thanks to The […]

Sane People Have Started a Blog on Francis!

I’m so happy to see this!  A blog by orthodox Catholics who like Francis and don’t take every occasion where he clears his throat or moves his index finger as an opportunity to shriek, declare him a heretic, speculate about his evil motives and suggest that they both do not understand him, but are also […]

Actual prolife Catholics listen to the Church and oppose the death penalty and torture

Christians agree with the Church that the point is not to ask when we get to kill people.  They ask when we have to kill and how we can spare life and treat people humanely. Christianists say that abortion is the core issue but will devote their actual time and energy to defending Trump’s plan […]