Washington state is the place for all your bead needs

Last updated on: November 13, 2017 at 3:37 pm By Mark Shea

We’ve got your sacred beads (click the link for the whole story): Travelers who happen upon a regional museum in Washington state are frequently surprised to find there the largest collection of rosaries in the world – according to no less an authority than “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” Located in southeastern Washington, on the north side of the Columbia River Gorge, near the picturesque town of Stevenson, the Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center houses a collection of some 4,000 rosaries... Read more

Jesus is not ethnocentric…

Last updated on: November 13, 2017 at 12:32 pm By Mark Shea

and he did not insult the Canaanite Woman. I’m writing about this here at the Catholic Weekly: Understand: I’m not claiming to know for certain the inmost mind and heart of every Canaanite as they sat at home. We simply don’t know what every last Canaanite thought about dogs. Indeed, we don’t know fully what the most famous Canaanite of the entire first century–the Canaanite Woman–thought about dogs, which is the point. My reader’s entire sweeping, utterly confident narrative is a house... Read more

If you fit these two profiles

Last updated on: November 6, 2017 at 9:56 pm By Mark Shea

Insist that health care is not a right Insist that 35,000 gun slaughter each year are “the price of freedom” and that nothing whatsoever should be attempted to change that other than what we are doing, which guarantees that number Then I submit that you have an absolute moral obligation to help defray the medical costs of every victim of a mass shooting: And if you are even slightly inclined to give any credence whatsoever to the lies the Gun Cult... Read more

How Low Will the Party of Nihilist Misogynous White Spite Sink?

Last updated on: November 13, 2017 at 8:29 am By Mark Shea

Well, when their folk hero Roy Moore, Alabama GOP candidate for Senate, has credible charges of hitting on (and in at least one case even sexually assaulting) at least four underage teenage girls, they will both call the accusers liars *and* simultaneously offer this explanation as to why hitting on teenagers is cool and Christian and manly: “It never happened and besides it’s totally Christian. Jesus was the fruit of a union between a child molester and his teenage victim.” ... Read more

It’s the Brush with Fame Thread!

Last updated on: November 6, 2017 at 9:55 pm By Mark Shea

So here are my Encounters with Famous People. I once shook hands with Jimmy Carter. And I have a letter from Jimmy Stewart that I gave to my wife as a Christmas present. And I stood in line next to Tom Skerritt. And I once drove down the freeway next to JP Patches’ car (a big deal to fellow Seattleites). And Sherry Weddell is an old friend and godmum of our oldest son. And I had dinner with Bishop Robert... Read more

The Alt Right is Trying to Seduce the Faithful

Last updated on: November 9, 2017 at 10:52 am By Mark Shea

New piece fam! Let the Christian and Pagan unity begin! RT and follow to help me spread! pic.twitter.com/yhN9MGRHul — JinjerZilla (@JinjerZilla) November 8, 2017 This guy, an avowed white supremacist is getting his cartoons circulated by people like Fr. Richard Heilman, because his praises of white fertility in the War on Lesser Races gets mistaken for Catholic praise of the family. Here he is more blunt: Christianity should be the religion of war against lesser races. Paul has some words... Read more

Heresy of the Day: Antinomianism

Last updated on: November 9, 2017 at 7:18 am By Mark Shea

1 :one who holds that under the gospel dispensation of grace (see 1grace 1a) the moral law is of no use or obligation because faith alone is necessary to salvation 2 :one who rejects a socially established morality Antinomianism is a favorite heresy of the Gun Cult. The Gun Cult, just to refresh your memory, is not “people who enjoy shooting or collecting guns”. The Gun Cult, in a word, is anybody who prefers the good known as a gun... Read more

Jesus on the Judgment of the Nations

Last updated on: November 7, 2017 at 6:28 pm By Mark Shea

Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we forgive you?’ And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me. (Mt 25:37–40). When Jesus took upon himself the sins of the world he took upon himself this man’s sin of murder. He “became sin for us” says St. Paul. In loving this man and forgiving him this good Muslim... Read more

David French Brings a Voice of Decency to NRO

Last updated on: November 8, 2017 at 7:52 am By Mark Shea

…regarding the inhuman plan of the Party of God and Life to make war on adoptive children: Adoption is hard. If you’ve adopted a child, you know. If your close friends or family members have adopted a child, you know. The most marvelous result — an orphaned, abandoned, or abused child finding a home — is typically preceded by years of uncertainty, red tape, and staggering expense. You can work through bureaucracies for months, only to have a judge change... Read more

Prayer and Works of Mercy Requests

Last updated on: November 7, 2017 at 9:57 am By Mark Shea

Fausta Nalubega writes from Africa: Stand with the poor families With 32$ a month, you can bring a smile on the face of the child be blessed and make their lives change for better. Who can realize, this little Marium is the one before with her grandmother before mercy for life came in to their lives You can choose a child you support and change his or her life like Marium May God bless all who stand to help the... Read more