Another odd moment at Mass that perhaps you would share your thoughts on: This morning, my wife, oldest son and I attended 6:30 Mass at a local parish. The 1st reading from Acts is the gripping tale of the Apostles deciding not to impose Jewish law on pagan converts. The priest, who seems like a good guy, gave a homily that was, it seems to me, subtly evil. I want to be clear that I don’t think the priest himself... Read more

Another odd moment at Mass that perhaps you would share your thoughts on: This morning, my wife, oldest son and I attended 6:30 Mass at a local parish. The 1st reading from Acts is the gripping tale of the Apostles deciding not to impose Jewish law on pagan converts. The priest, who seems like a good guy, gave a homily that was, it seems to me, subtly evil. I want to be clear that I don’t think the priest himself... Read more

I’m scarce due to a funeral and a bunch of work. I’ll be back on Monday. By the way, Mark-Shea.com subscribers, if you got a somewhat confusing letter from Paladin Innovators, please be aware that it went out without proper vetting. The basic story is this: Paladin Innovators (the tech wizards behind the videocasts) is giving a full refunds to everybody. It turns out that for complicated bookkeeping reasons that I don’t fully understand, it’s easier to do that than... Read more

Well, we gave it a good college try, but the technology for the live interactive videocasts just didn’t work the way we expected for a number of our viewers. That’s the bad news. The good news is, we are not giving up! We had a rather hard and bumpy opening with (as my comboxes attest) some frustrating tech glitches that did not make live interactive viewing a happy experience for many of our viewers. The good news is that it... Read more

The way you can tell is that, while serving the Church, he actually wants to feed his family too. Anybody who tries to do something for the Church and seeks to get remuneration for the fruits of their labor is just a huckster. This is one of the more common memes one hears from the Truly True spectrum of Reactionary Catholicism. And one of its most ardent proponents is self-declared Expert on the Problem of Protestant Converts, Janice Kraus. Madrid... Read more

This new buzzword is still all the rage on the Internet and basically means “pigheaded refusal to think outside tribal pieties”. Two rather delectable specimens turn up over at First Things. The first is a terrific essay by David Hart in which he looks at the truly profound shallowness (to coin a phrase) of the New Atheists and their little yell kings and cheerleaders in comboxes and the media. After a thorough analysis of their mule-headed refusal to so much... Read more

Practicing Catholics unfazed by abuse scandals; Pope’s popularity increasing… Memo to press: this is not 2002. Benedict is one of the good guys. The feeding frenzy made you look like sharks, not crusading reporters. And yes, it was disgusting. Apologies are still being accepted. Read more

Practicing Catholics unfazed by abuse scandals; Pope’s popularity increasing… Memo to press: this is not 2002. Benedict is one of the good guys. The feeding frenzy made you look like sharks, not crusading reporters. And yes, it was disgusting. Apologies are still being accepted. Read more

Heckuva job. Read more

Heckuva job. Read more