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Tia Marshall is a brave and good woman…

October 25, 2018 By Mark Shea

…and she has written a fine piece for a survivors of sexual assault. Here’s just a taste. Read the rest here: I’ve spent the last decade working in the field of mental health, focusing the last few years in particular on helping people heal after sexual assault. I’ve spent 6 years of study to learn how to do what I do and a crap ton (there’s my mountain roots coming out) of continuing education hours learning an even deeper understanding… Read more

Hey Portland, Oregon! I’m coming your way October 25!

October 24, 2018 By Mark Shea

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I will be speaking on Behold Your Mother at 6:30 PM on Thursday, October 25 at the Kells – downtown: 112 SW 2nd Ave, Portland, Oregon 97204 and sponsored by St. Michael the Archangel parish! Come and learn about the Church’s teaching on how Mary–Mother of God, Perpetual Virgin, Immaculately Conceived, and Assumed into Heaven–shows us not merely the truth of who God is, but the truth of who we are. This is my favorite talk to give. I look forward… Read more

Signs of Hope

October 24, 2018 By Mark Shea

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Reader (and soon to be author) Stephanie Thomas writes: I live my faith by working with women and girls who beg on street corners with cardboard signs. I lead a team of women who go out onto the streets to pray and minister to the people who are begging there. I’ve spent 8 years working with women who beg on the streets of Greensboro and with people in the homeless community. I also recently finished writing a book (not yet… Read more

The whole Western Tradition….

October 23, 2018 By Mark Shea

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up until Ayn Rand agreed that, whatever else may be the case, feeding the poor was a good thing. It took the genius of the Freak Show Right and and its Court Prophet Christianist predators like Paul Ryan to elevate this wretched enemy of God and her philosophy of Selfishness to a virtue: That this 4th rate writer and 10th rate philosopher and enemy of God is now the leading intellectual light of Cult 45 is but another proof that… Read more

You have made us for yourself, O Lord…

October 22, 2018 By Mark Shea

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…and our hearts are restless till they rest in you. – St. Augustine A brilliant animator is asking the question to which Christ remains the answer: The tragedy for the foreseeable future is that, in the West, Christianism is the loud and temporarily dominant gospel of antichrist which is 100% oriented toward turning people away from Jesus Christ in its whoredom to a false gospel of Mammon, Mars, Venus and Narcissus. It is a feeder belt designed to deliver souls… Read more

Prudential Judgment and Minimum Daily Adult Catholicism

October 20, 2018 By Mark Shea

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Here’s the first in a little series I’ve written for The Catholic Weekly about how to navigate the Church’s moral teaching in a time when many have lost confidence in the Magisterium. Here’s a taste. Stay tuned. There are three more in the series: Here’s a little passage from Lumen Gentium you don’t hear much about these days: Bishops, teaching in communion with the Roman Pontiff, are to be respected by all as witnesses to divine and Catholic truth. In matters of… Read more

Love is what binds participants in the Blessed Trinity together

October 19, 2018 By Mark Shea

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This is a basic article of the faith. He that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love, says St. John. Conversely, Christianism, which is a diabolical parody of the gospel centered around the worship of Donald Trump is bound together by cruelty: The Trump era is such a whirlwind of cruelty that it can be hard to keep track. This week alone, the news broke that the Trump administration was seeking to ethnically cleanse more than 193,000 American children of… Read more

The Corruption of Humor in the Kingdom of Cruelty

October 18, 2018 By Mark Shea

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Uncle Screwtape talks about the uses of humor in hell: My dear Wormwood, Everything is clearly going very well. I am specially glad to hear that the two new friends have now made him acquainted with their whole set. All these, as I find from the record office, are thoroughly reliable people; steady, consistent scoffers and worldlings who without any spectacular crimes are progressing quietly and comfortably towards Our Father’s house. You speak of their being great laughers. I trust… Read more

The Shea Legend of the Blackfoot Indian Princess

October 17, 2018 By Mark Shea

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When I was growing up in the Family Shea I was taught that somewhere back there in the family tree was not merely a Blackfoot Indian, but a Blackfoot Indian princess. I did not question this particularly, being 12 or so, but neither did I dwell on it much. It was a factoid, one of those things you squirrel away in memory but which you don’t think about since… so what? It did occur to me to wonder what an… Read more

Where Peter Is….

October 16, 2018 By Mark Shea

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…on the dogged dishonesty of the Francis Haters: Viganò claimed that Benedict imposed canonical sanctions on McCarrick, which Francis lifted. Viganò told us to ask Ouellet about it. Ouellet said it is false that there were canonical sanctions on McCarrick. The dissenter’s conclusion: Ouellet has just proven there were canonical sanctions! Pedro Gabriel’s take on this Orwellian spin: “Instead of acknowledging the huge hole Ouellet’s letter punches on Viganò’s testimony (a death blow in my opinion), anti-Francis critics have, unsurprisingly,… Read more