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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

Spiritual Warfare, Part I

Recently, the Catholic League complained when a University of Central Florida student walked out of Mass with the Host and held it hostage for several days. In response to this, a professor named P.Z. Myers, who teaches at the University of Minnesota – Morris, wrote a viciously anti-Catholic post on

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The Pickle of Private Judgment

My pal (we’ll call him “Hal”) is nothing if not a Christian of deep convictions. Hal believes the Bible is the sole source of revelation. He thinks the Spirit guides each believer to individually discover truth for himself (so who needs the Church to tell us what to believe?) He

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Faith and “Religion”

“I think it’s important to distinguish between faith and religion,” said a man I know. “Religion too often is merely the perversion of faith.” We often hear such things said, usually as an argument for maintaining the supposed “wall of separation” between religion and politics that is supposed to be

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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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