Fascinating Conversation the Other Day

Last updated on: January 27, 2019 at 2:31 pm By Mark Shea

On Sunday, which commemorated the 74th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a friend of mine commented on the Book of Face: The people who created Auschwitz weren’t monsters, they were ordinary people whose judgment was gradually warped by a monstrous ideology that looked to blame the ills of their society on outsiders, foreigners, the “other”. They allowed it to happen, little by little, first by what they failed to protest, then tacitly approved, then (being unable to turn back... Read more

So This Happened in Seattle Recently

Last updated on: January 26, 2019 at 4:07 pm By Mark Shea

I love that he goes to the agora, like Paul. Read more

Followers of the Imagisterium

Last updated on: January 26, 2019 at 10:46 pm By Mark Shea

Mike Lewis brings the truth about the Greatest Catholics of All Time, a sect in the Church that constitutes the most bitter opponents of the Church’s whole weave teaching and dedicated to destroying the Magisterium and replacing it with it Americanist Christianism in service to the rich and powerful: Rather than listening to the Magisterium and simply assenting to the teachings in the way that the Church instructs us, many Catholics instead adhere to a different authoritative body of teaching,... Read more

Your Saturday Dose of “That’s Not Something You See Every Day!”

Last updated on: January 25, 2019 at 6:26 pm By Mark Shea

Say what you will, Catholics throw the best parties. Read more

Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul

Last updated on: January 25, 2019 at 5:04 pm By Mark Shea

Acts 9:1-9 But Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, so that if he found any belonging to the Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. Now as he journeyed he approached Damascus, and suddenly a light from heaven flashed about him. And he fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul,... Read more

The Feast of the Holy Child Martyrs of Covington

Last updated on: January 28, 2019 at 2:11 pm By Mark Shea

I appreciate this salient tweet: The highly selective Concern of the MAGA cult is disgusting and laughable. They have ginned themselves into a royal Panic du Jour. The Prez has reliably done his bit to shout “Fake News“. And the MAGA Media are reliably doing their bit to Horst Wessellize the kids into mascots for white supremacy: “Stand your Ground” is white supremacist code for “Black kids in hoodies should be murdered, but rude white kids in MAGA hats are... Read more

C.S. Lewis reads The Four Loves

Last updated on: January 23, 2019 at 9:46 am By Mark Shea

This is very cool. One of the few remaining recordings of Lewis’ voice (sounding a bit like Hitchcock) and reading from one of his best books. His non-fiction is not as well known these days as his fiction, particularly The Chronicles of Narnia. I recently re-read his Till We Have Faces, which is, to my mind, his finest piece of fiction. It would be difficult to adapt it to film, especially in a way that a post-modern audience could comprehend.... Read more

Jennifer Rubin is right and wrong

Last updated on: January 22, 2019 at 7:19 am By Mark Shea

She is right in that she opposes the racist Freak Show that is the Cult of Trump. But she is wrong in that she is trying, as so many conservatives are trying, to minimize the catastrophe that so-called “conservatives” are 100% responsible for creating. She writes a piece here in which she says that a sliver of U.S. that is ‘racist’ and ‘nativist’ has taken over GOP, and the party is paralyzed. Now it is absolutely the case that racist,... Read more

Covington, MAGA, the Simpsons, and the Gomer Pyle Axiom of High and Low Expectations

Last updated on: January 27, 2019 at 8:11 pm By Mark Shea

Watching the shifting narrative over the past three days reminds me of this: People responded to the initial videos of the Covington kids with outrage, including me. Then the Right Wing media rode in with a bigger picture and an even bigger agenda, backed by a right wing PR firm. The bigger picture pointed out that the biggest villains of the piece were the Black Hebrew group shouting really vile stuff at the kids. Very true. More than this (and... Read more

It’s been 56 years…

Last updated on: January 14, 2019 at 9:49 pm By Mark Shea

…and the racist freak show that is the antichrist Christianist Cult of Trump still makes the same bullshit arguments to defend its oppression of the brown and poor. And Martin Luther King, Jr. still calls out their bullshit: One of the basic points in your statement is that the action that I and my associates have taken in Birmingham is untimely. Some have asked: “Why didn’t you give the new city administration time to act?” The only answer that I... Read more