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Dulce et Decorum Est

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,And towards our distant

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November 11, 2026 No Comments

Good and Bad Universalism

I think there are two basic motivations for Universalism. One is a genuinely charitable hope that none will choose eternal separation from God that really

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November 10, 2026 3 Comments

Out of Date Apologetics

There is, interestingly, no office of “apologist” in the New Testament. Paul tells that God’s “gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some

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November 9, 2026 4 Comments
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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

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Between the Skeptic and the Fundamentalist

Reading Scripture as a modern Catholic is a perpetual balance between extremes; among them, the extremes of farfetched skepticism and equally farfetched supernaturalism. For, unlike these extremes, the Faith takes both the unseen realities of the Spirit and the ordinary life of human beings seriously. It believes in both accountants

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Shea’s Iron Law of Media-Reported Benedictine Growth

Two years ago, the Mainstream Media (MSM) gathered in a special conclave in Rome to discuss the disastrous election to the Papacy of Ratzinger the Enforcer, God’s Rottweiler, the hardliner, inflexible, rigid, etc. blah blah. Some of us suggested to our television screens that the Talking Heads might want to

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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).

I can also be found on Facebook (here and here) and Twitter. If you like my work and want to see more of it, please become one of my supporters on Patreon…..

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