Mark P. Shea's Blog, page 93

Prayer requests and chances to do works of mercy

A reader writes: Please help Dale and Suzanne Florence-Zavatter, two colleagues of mine facing the return of Suzanne’s cancer. They’re great people who could use a hand. Mark Shea–maybe add them to the list of people needing prayer on your blog, please? Father, hear our prayer for Suzanne’s complete healing in body, soul, and spirit.  Give […]

President Queeg is a Stable Genius

Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total hoax on the American public, the Democrats and their lapdogs, the Fake News Mainstream Media, are taking out the old Ronald Reagan playbook and screaming mental stability and intelligence….. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2018 ….Actually, throughout […]

From Russell Kirk to Milo Yiannopolous…

The spectacle of the decay of American Conservative Catholicism from this: to Milo Yiannopolous will be the subject of some future history. Here are just the editorial comments on his ridiculous book Dangerous, made by some poor sod whose job was to try to make this glob of junk into a book. It’s hilarious: I […]

Christians: There’s been a death in the family

Mike Flynn’s father, Joseph, died.  Of your charity please pray for him and all who mourn his passing.

And there are copious tape recordings to back it all up

Michael Wolff, in addition to chronicling the massive dysfunction of the freak show in the White House, offers this small vignette of the man Church Militant and countless Christianists seriously believe is God’s Anointed: So much family values/prolife winning in this tidily documented book.  But, of course, the thoroughly Trumpified old prolife movement knows what […]

Please help this family in need after a fire

A reader writes: Would you consider sharing my friend’s go fund me? They are a large, Catholic family and they’ve had a house fire. I don’t think they even know what their needs will be yet, beyond the immediate. They’re asking for help with food and shelter. Thanks so much!

A Chance to Do a Work of Mercy

Charlie Camosy writes: I have some terrible and heartbreaking news to share about my friend and colleague Beth Haile. Several of you who are on my Facebook feed know her. For those of you who don’t, she is one of the best people around and light to anyone who meets her. In the last few […]

So this is hilarious

Liesite News, in its ongoing quest to make Sean Hannity look like a paragon of rock-ribbed journalistic integrity by comparison, outdoes itself in sheer Francis-hating hysteria with a story titled “‘Eerie and ominous’ sign appears as Pope Francis visits Vatican Nativity“. What horror was revealed from celestial realms to assure us all that Liesite Rulz […]

Trump: Liar and Authoritarian–and Darling of Christianists

Ezra Klein does the autopsy on Trump NY Times interview from last week.  First, he look at the lying and self-delusion: The president of the United States is not well. That is an uncomfortable thing to say, but it is an even worse thing to ignore. Consider the interview Trump gave to the New York Times on […]

Bp. McElroy speaks with perfect orthodoxy

Here: “President Trump was the candidate of disruption. He was the disrupter, he said. Well now, we must all become disrupters. We must disrupt those who would seek to send troops into our streets to deport the undocumented, to rip mothers and fathers from their families. We must disrupt those who portray refugees as enemies […]