We’re in the Home Stretch of the Tin Cup Rattle, something I have not needed to do in over four years, but which a financial crunch has necessitated here at Chez Shea. If what I do is important to you, please help me keep doing it with a generous donation below. You guys have done a phenomenal job so far and my fambly really appreciate it–though not as much as I do. However, we have two more days to go... Read more
Newsweek is covering it. So is the BBC. The New Yorker is on it too. And CNN, locus of all evil in the universe is covering it too. Indeed, here an experiment to try. The next time somebody gripes that “nobody in the liberal media is talking about THIS!”, see if a) they are linking a story in the liberal media as they say it and b) do a quick Google search to see how many jillions of times that story... Read more
You’ve grown accustomed to my blog It always makes your day begin You’ve grown accustomed to the links the comments and hijinx My smiles, my frowns My ups, my downs Are second nature to you now Like breathing out and breathing in You were serenely independent And content, before we met Surely you could always be that way again, and yet You’ve grown accustomed to my blog Accustomed to my voice Accustomed to my blog. Are you a Lerner who... Read more
I read this on Good Friday and loved it, It’s called “If atonement ain’t penal, why the cross?”. Here’s an excerpt (but read the whole thing): But does this notion of penal substitutionary atonement make sense? Fr Herbert McCabe thinks not: So God the Son became man so that by his suffering and death he could pay the price of sin. This seems to be based on an idea of punishment as a kind of payment, a repayment; the criminal... Read more
Greetings and thank you so much for your generosity to us Sheas. I won’t take up a bunch of your time but I will just say what I have said before: if you appreciate what you get here, then please help keep an emphatically lower middle class family’s nose above water. I have not had to do one of these for four years, but a combination of taxes, bills and unexpected expenses has hit us hard. So please, if you... Read more
30 years ago, libs turned to folks like Fr. Richard McBrien, Rosemary Radford Reuther, and Charles Curran as their alternative Magisteria for ignoring the Pope on pelvic stuff. Conservatives said, “The Church is not a democracy! Don’t be cafeteria Catholics.” Back then they were gaga for Oaths of Fidelity to the Magisterium. 15 years ago, the pope said “No more War! Never again war!” Conservatives said, “Hey libs! That thing of finding an alternative magisterium to tell you what you... Read more
In the past couple days, you got to discuss stuff you can’t hardly discuss anywhere else, cuz there aren’t too many blogs with this mix of Catholic theology and daffy pop culture cogitations about theology, zombies, vaccinations, vaccinations causing the zombie apocalypse, vaccinations curing the zombie apocalypse, the theology of zombie apocalypse vaccinations and (who knows?) meet the man, woman or zombie of your dreams! I ask you: Where else can you get quite what you get here? So if... Read more
…is perfectly illustrated by the testimony of this dying man to Congress that GoFundMe is not a health care plan. The core evil of the Libertarian’s war on universal health care is that it lies that taking a few pennies from my paycheck “robs me of the chance to be generous”. No. It does not. Health care is not “charity”. Health care is justice. It is the corollary of our right to life. If, as prolife people endlessly insist, babies... Read more
It’s been years since I’ve had to do this and I would not ask if it weren’t necessary. This is one of the moments where I ask for some small support for my efforts to provide you with the sort of Catholic content, newsiness, fun, and so forth that is this blog. We Sheas live in narrow financial straits. For those who have joined the blog recently, I am a writer trying to support two large livestock sons and a... Read more
It’s been years since I’ve had to do this, and hopefully it will be years before I have to do it again, but a confluence of taxes and bills has struck our finances like a tsunami and so I’m asking you: If you like my work, please help keep an emphatically lower middle class writer with a malfunction computer, a giant car repair bill, multiple self-employment, property, and estimated quarterly tax bills, four mouths to feed and a savings account on... Read more
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