A reader offers a summary of Kavanaugh’s lies

Last updated on: September 28, 2018 at 12:20 pm By Mark Shea

Christine Blasey Ford told the truth about Donald’s Trump’s Supreme Court judge nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Everything was credible about her testimony. Everyone believed everything about her testimony, except the discredited notion that she ID’d the wrong guy. Which has been discredited if you keep reading. Judge Kavanaugh lied and lied. Not only should he be defeated for the Supreme Court nomination, but he should be impeached from the bench. I have counted at least 30 lies. Her? Zero lies. Unlike... Read more

SMBC Comics on the Modern Epic

Last updated on: September 27, 2018 at 4:34 pm By Mark Shea

I sometimes suspect the entire postmodern project consists of rich people trying to convince the rest of us that this is just fine: Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever. The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. The... Read more

Steve Greydanus tries to reason with Kavanaugh partisans

Last updated on: September 29, 2018 at 1:52 pm By Mark Shea

A few questions for defenders: While some raunchy or risque references in a yearbook entry by themselves may be small beer in the grand scheme of things, if it appears Kavanaugh was willing to lie under oath about his yearbook entry, is he qualified to sit on the Supreme Court? Please, friends, use your critical thinking skills. 1. Kavanaugh admits he drank quite a bit in high school and college. He further admits that his yearbook reference to “Beach Week... Read more

St. Augustine on Shepherds

Last updated on: September 27, 2018 at 10:34 am By Mark Shea

They are straying across the mountains and the high hills, they have been scattered over all the face of the earth. What does this mean, scattered over all the face of the earth? That they attach themselves to earthly things, the things that glitter on the face of the earth: they love and desire them. They do not want to die and be hidden away in Christ. Over all the face of the earth not only because they love earthly things but because across all... Read more

Sacramental Letters

Last updated on: September 18, 2018 at 11:36 am By Mark Shea

My friend and fellow parishioner Nina Butorac has published a new book called Sacramental Letters: Themes in Catholic Literature. Sacramental Letters is a spirited exploration of the sacramental themes that underlie some of our more profound literature. While it is a serious literary study, it is also a religious journey into the meaning of the sacraments and the underlying grace that imbues our world. From a uniquely Catholic perspective, the author offers new and challenging insights into the works of Albert... Read more

A reader has a question about Arius

Last updated on: September 18, 2018 at 11:36 am By Mark Shea

He writes: Mr. Shea, I have a question for you if you’re willing to oblige. In Thomas More’s “Dialogue Concerning Heresies” 1.24, he speaks of how the faith of the church is needed to properly understand Scripture, and offers the example of what could happen if a child was not first instructed in the faith but just given a Bible to read — how easily the kid could come to the conclusion of Arius if not given pre-instruction in Christ’s... Read more

Boston! I’ll be there on September 25!

Last updated on: September 18, 2018 at 11:41 am By Mark Shea

I look forward to meeting all y’all! Read more

Julius Goat is Some Kind of Comic Genius

Last updated on: September 12, 2018 at 11:37 pm By Mark Shea

Some Bad News

Last updated on: September 20, 2018 at 8:08 pm By Mark Shea

There’s been a death in the St. Blog’s family, one that has a lot of personal impact for me: Zippy Catholic has died, killed in a bicycling accident. I got to know Zippy better than one normally does in blogging. We even met a couple of times and I visited his home in Virginia. Zippy was old school. I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody as committed to honesty, rationalism and fidelity to the Magisterium as he was. I don’t... Read more

The Last Installment of My Series on God the Father…

Last updated on: September 18, 2018 at 1:06 pm By Mark Shea

over at The Catholic Weekly: In Christ, God himself takes the lowest place along with every forgotten murder victim, every bullied kid, every weeping refugee–and even every raging persecutor like Saul of Tarsus. The Almighty was never mightier than when he submitted to this kind of humiliation and death—and conquered it with love and mercy and not bitterness and vengefulness. But the Tradition also assures us that God the Father is “impassible”. That is, nothing can ever take from God... Read more