How Not to Argue for the Prolife Position

Last updated on: September 6, 2017 at 1:20 am By Mark Shea

Matt Walsh sez, “Please don’t complain about deporting children if you support murdering them.” It could have been a piece demonstrating the hypocrisy of the Left, but with an unerring instinct for wrongness that is a golden thread through so much of his work, Walsh instead writes a piece demonstrating the hypocrisy of the anti-abortion-but-not-prolife Christian Right: There are respectable arguments a person can make on either side of the immigration debate. Personally, I’m in favor of enforcing our immigration laws,... Read more

Greetings from the Fire Nation!

Last updated on: September 6, 2017 at 12:59 am By Mark Shea

Your puny attempts to break our power during the recent eclipse have failed! Soon the Fire Benders will rule you all! Read more

What I brought to confession on Saturday

Last updated on: September 6, 2017 at 12:53 am By Mark Shea

The Sunday readings really spoke to me. We’ve been spending a lot of time in Jeremiah and his perplexity speaks to me: O LORD, you have deceived me, and I was deceived; you are stronger than I, and you have prevailed. I have become a laughingstock all the day; every one mocks me. For whenever I speak, I cry out, I shout, “Violence and destruction!” For the word of the LORD has become for me a reproach and derision all... Read more

To My Readers in Florida

Last updated on: September 5, 2017 at 1:23 pm By Mark Shea

Here is the map of the devastation caused by Harvey, superimposed on Florida: Irma is already a Cat 5 storm, bigger than Harvey. And it could become the first Cat 6 storm in history. Get out. Now. Right now. Don’t wait for the roads to jam. Flee north and inland right this minute. Don’t wait until the rest of the population of Florida is caught in the trap and panics. Get out right now. This is going to be really,... Read more

God bless Cardinal Tobin

Last updated on: September 5, 2017 at 12:36 pm By Mark Shea

There is no defense for this. None. And this is, yes, a prolife issue since many women affected by it are pregnant (not to mention it being a gravely and intrinsically immoral act just like abortion and euthanasia). Impenitent support for it may send one to a different circle of hell, but that will be small consolation. Read more

Repealing DACA is cruel, stupid, and deeply counterproductive

Last updated on: September 5, 2017 at 11:23 am By Mark Shea

The bishops oppose it. Even a number of the GOP oppose it. But Good White Christian Trump supporters defend this wicked cruelty. Try seeing Reason. From a purely economic perspective (which is the least important to Christians who care about the gospel but supposedly the most important to the false Christian freak show of “conservative American Christians”, DACA beneficiaries put in $60 billion more in taxes than they consume in benefits. That means about $275 billion in economic and fiscal... Read more

I would like to recommend Dave Armstrong’s books

Last updated on: September 2, 2017 at 11:54 pm By Mark Shea

I can’t list them all, but here are some good ones: And of course: If you are looking for some useful apologetics material *and* want to help someone whose livelihood comes from serving the gospel, try these. Read more

This deserves a Pulitzer

Last updated on: September 2, 2017 at 12:35 pm By Mark Shea

When Fr. Frank Pavone committed what his own bishop called an act of desecration…

Last updated on: September 2, 2017 at 12:26 pm By Mark Shea

…by putting the corpse of an aborted baby on an altar and giving a 45 minute stump speech for Trump live on line, the usual cries “You must never attack a holy priest” went up. Apparently that’s only true for priests on the correct side of the Culture War: I don’t have anything invested in Fr. Martin. I couldn’t tell you five words he’s written or said. And I don’t mind people arguing with him any more than I minded... Read more

Stimulus/Response

Last updated on: September 2, 2017 at 11:55 am By Mark Shea

Stimulus Response: This brutal thug in a uniform behaved in exactly the way he was encouraged to behave, assaulting a completely innocent woman for doing her job and upholding the law. This happened in late July. You didn’t hear about until now because the cop, who was not fired for committing assault, has been protected by his stonewalling city and department, who only got around to apologizing when the story went public. The assaulted nurse has graciously accepted the apology.... Read more