Fr. Hugh Barbour seek our help…

Last updated on: November 27, 2017 at 7:02 pm By Mark Shea

…to save refugees: The war and conflict in Syria have left thousands of people destitute and in need of basic necessities. We continue to work in the region with bishops, sisters, and social workers on the ground to provide emergency relief and pastoral help for displaced and refugee families. Our donors’ kindness continues to provide food packages for 1,500 refugee families –packages that include milk, lentils, sugar, tea, rice, cooking oil, canned goods and other essentials. Can we count on... Read more

There are no borders for Christ

Last updated on: November 27, 2017 at 8:19 am By Mark Shea

The next in my series on the Canaanite Woman: As we saw last time, Matthew himself shows Jesus interacting with Gentiles and even going so far as to tell his fellow Jews that “many will come from east and west and sit at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, while the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness; there men will weep and gnash their teeth” (Matthew 8:11-12). This does not... Read more

The Star Trek Transporter Problem

Last updated on: November 25, 2017 at 10:35 pm By Mark Shea

Is it a suicide machine? CPG Grey messes with your mind. Read more

Goody! A Free Course on St. Thomas by Peter Kreeft!

Last updated on: November 27, 2017 at 8:19 am By Mark Shea

This is so great! In September, The King’s College released a free, self-paced micro-course by Dr. Peter Kreeft titled “A Sample of Key Concepts from Thomas Aquinas.” This four-lesson course expounds key texts from Aquinas’ Summa Theologica about the existence of God, the relationship of reason and faith, and the connection between God’s will and human will. With half-hour video lectures and readings from Kreeft’s annotation of Aquinas, Summa of the Summa, the course allows students to engage with the primary source text under the... Read more

The Sex Predators Everyone Still Worships

Last updated on: November 19, 2017 at 1:41 am By Mark Shea

A cogent piece on those areas of our culture where predators are still coddled, protected, and admired: It is not enough to absolve ourselves by pretending that this has always been a cloak-and-dagger affair. Hollywood culture is rape culture — and it always has been. There is a reason that “casting couch” is a slang term. The same thing is true in the music industry. Do we really want to pretend that the now-septuagenarians responsible for “Under My Thumb” and... Read more

A Thanksgiving Paradox

Last updated on: November 18, 2017 at 11:18 pm By Mark Shea

Here’s an excerpt from a bit of whimsy I wrote a few years back on one of the ironies of the American Founding and our Puritan heritage: As an example of what I mean, consider the curious interior of King’s Chapel in Boston. An amalgam of Puritan and Anglican heritage, it was assiduously scoured clean of any Romish imagery that might tempt the unwary Puritan into the sensuous worship that characterizes the benighted papist. However, it is also a chapel... Read more

A Proclamation

Last updated on: November 18, 2017 at 11:10 pm By Mark Shea

By the President of the United States of America It has pleased Almighty God to prolong our national life another year, defending us with His guardian care against unfriendly designs from abroad and vouchsafing to us in His mercy many and signal victories over the enemy, who is of our own household. It has also pleased our Heavenly Father to favor as well our citizens in their homes as our soldiers in their camps and our sailors on the rivers... Read more

I don’t believe for a second…

Last updated on: November 22, 2017 at 7:43 am By Mark Shea

…that Zachary King was a “satanist high wizard”. Sorry, but I just don’t buy such claims without firm documentation. I hail from the world of Evangelicalism and I remember the career of Mike Warnke, which you can read all about here: I also hail from the Catholic world and I remember the credulity with which the fabulisms of John Corapi, massive liar, were defended. There is a streak of popular piety that loves to credit tales of lurid sin and... Read more

A reader has a question about the Fall and its effects

Last updated on: November 19, 2017 at 12:52 am By Mark Shea

He writes: Hey I have a question about the Fall – I can understand that humans were given immortality and freedom from the troubles of the world by God as a preternatural gift, and we lost it through the sin of our First Parents. What I cannot imagine is how creation itself was changed by the Fall, since every shred of evidence in the physical record indicates that those things we consider natural evils – earthquakes, volcanoes, cyclones, flood, drought,... Read more

Rebecca Hamilton Brings the Truth

Last updated on: November 22, 2017 at 7:44 am By Mark Shea

…again: Euthanasia is medical murder. It is also, in an increasing number of locations around the globe, legalized murder. In the midst of the debate about whether or not it should be legal for your doctor to kill you, including murdering you without your knowledge or permission, we have the do-it-yourself death pushers. Dr Philip Nitschke of Australia is now marketing what amounts to a suicide package which consists of a killing machine that converts to a coffin. Just in... Read more