If you decide to pull of a $30,000 tech heist, be sure the tech you steal is not GPS tracking devices: This Way, Gang! A burglary of a Silicon Valley tech company netted $30,000 worth of equipment, including computers. The thief was easy to track down, but not because he was injured in the break-in, and left blood “and other DNA evidence” at the scene. It was because the target was Roambee of Santa Clara, Calif., which makes GPS tracking... Read more
…the new fidget spinner rosary. I love Eye of the Tiber. Read more
A reader writes: Maggie Gallagher posted an article saying that perhaps Pope Francis shouldn’t be dismissed as a liberal, and people are posting in the comments accusing her of “Mark Shea-ism” Hah! It’s not “Scott Eric Alt-ism”! You suck! Read more
…writes to inform me: The state border between Western Australia and the rest of the great continent of Australia is the last surviving line of the Papal Line of Demarcation established by Pope Alexander VI in 1493 dividing the known world between the Spanish and the Portuguese. No Trump supporters will know how to respond. Full time score: Shea, 1; Trump supporters, nil. Here endeth the lesson. I’m not sure what any of this means, but it is a consolation... Read more
…on Fr. James Martin’s new book, Building a Bridge: How the Catholic Church and the LGBT Community Can Enter Into a Relationship of Respect, Compassion, and Sensitivity. As I have mentioned in the past, my habit with regard to temptations I do not experience myself is to refrain from handing out free advice. In this, I am consciously imitating C.S. Lewis who followed the same policy since he resented officers during the Great War who gave such free advice to troops... Read more
…who saved 2500 Jewish children from death during the Holocaust. She personifies the truth that grace is dark matter, hidden, quiet, unnoticed by the whole world, and yet constituting the force that hold the universe together. How many Irena Sendlers are there that go utterly unnoticed in this life and yet who are, in fact, the main story about whom all of history really centered while the tyrants and movie stars we thought were the central story came and went?... Read more
…of Martin Luther–and manages to work Dylan into the conversation too. I think here of a distant spiritual descendent of Martin Luther, the Nobel laureate Bob Dylan. After his conversion to evangelical Christianity, Dylan wrote a lovely song called Saving Grace, which includes the lines, “I look around this old world/ And all that I’m finding/ Is the saving grace that’s over me.” Mind you, this is the same Dylan who, just a few years earlier, had sung of “guns... Read more
There’s no humor like British humor: Read more
…about the appointment of Nigel Biggar to the Pontifical Academy for Life. It’s a question that, for many of my readers, has the quality of a moral litmus test (I get a lot of those from combox Inquisitors). The “correct” answer, of course, is “I STRONGLY DENOUNCE THIS MONSTROUS ACT AND BELIEVE AND PROFESS THAT THIS IS THE TRUE SIGN THAT FRANCIS IS ANTICHRIST AND THAT THE THREE DAYS OF DARKNESS ARE NEARLY UPON US!!!” But the truth is that... Read more
A reader writes: First off, thank you for the work you do in the vineyard. I enjoy your blog and your posts on FB. I don’t always agree; but I appreciate that, with the Church, you call me to think even and especially when I don’t want to because I *think* I’m right. Thank you for your kind words. I am hoping to bend your ear/eyes… I am currently discerning a vocation to the permanent diaconate. I have been accepted... Read more
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