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Ash Wednesday

I. My God, my God, have mercy on my sin,For it is great; and if I should beginTo tell it all, the day would be

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Three Points on Health Care

Here is a perennial “gotcha” from the MAGA orc playbook: The answer is threefold and therefore too complex for the MAGA mind to comprehend. But

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Dive into the Sheavings

Angels, Part 1

As the existence of everything from SETI to Star Trek attests, our civilization is fascinated with the question of the existence of non-human intelligences. The Faith says that we already know of at least one such class of creature. It is called an “angel”. However, our culture’s response to the

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The Wonder of a Race of Poets

Whenever I have to fly somewhere, I find it hard to sleep the night before. It’s not that I’m afraid of flying, for I always sleep like a baby the night before I fly home. No, I think instead that it’s just the excitement of long-distance travel (plus the edginess

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Angels, Part 2

Last week, we discussed the predicament of those who try to avoid the rather strong inference of a universe made by You Know Who via recourse to the so-called “Multiverse” theory. This theory accounts for the extraordinary fine tuning of the universe by positing an infinite number of other universes

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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 SonThis 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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