December 20, 2025
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Part 8: God Became Man – True God and True Man
After the threat of Docetism faded in the first century, the same second century Gnostic sects who pitted the Son against the Father also pitted
December 19, 2025
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Part 7: God Became Man – The Church’s Developing Understanding of the Incarnation
As we recite the words “He was incarnate of the Virgin Mary and became man”) something happens in the liturgy that is worth noting. On
December 18, 2025
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Part 6: God Became Man – Mary as Mother of the Church
The Church has always encouraged the faithful to cultivate a loving and filial relationship with Mary. Some Christians are fearful that doing so is a
December 17, 2025
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Our Father: Thy Kingdom Come
Roughly a century ago a modernist scholar complained that Jesus came to proclaim the kingdom of God, but instead all we got was a lousy Church. He’s probably not the only person to have felt a bit disappointed, nor the only one to form the conviction that the Church is
A Sanctuary in Time
How lovely is thy dwelling place, O LORD of hosts!My soul longs, yea, faints for the courts of the LORD;my heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God. – Psalm 84:1-2 The deepest desire of the heart is expressed in Psalm 84. The lover of God “faints for
Tending the Ecosystem of the Faith
As a born and bred Western Washingtonian, I was raised to respect the environment. My entire education, especially in this part of the country, was ordered to toward making me acutely aware of the fundamental interconnectedness of things. If you dump some toxic junk out of your boat somewhere upstream
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About Mark Shea
Greetings! I’m Mark P. Shea, a Catholic author and blogger who’s also done a spot of podcasting and even acting here and there, as well as radio and TV work. My latest book, The Church’s Best-Kept Secret: A Primer on Catholic Social Teaching was published in September 2020 by New City Press. Other works include By What Authority?: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition (Ignatius), Mary, Mother of the Son, This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence (Christendom), and Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did (Basilica), Salt and Light: The Commandments, the Beatitudes, and a Joyful Life (Servant), The Heart of Catholic Prayer: Rediscovering the Our Father and the Hail Mary (Our Sunday Visitor) and The Work of Mercy: Being the Hands and Heart of Christ (Servant).
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