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“See How These Christians Love One Another”
There is an old Russian joke about an angel who appears to a peasant and tells him he can have whatever he wishes: wealth, happiness,
Ontario, August 1964
When I was a little boy, we went to visit my Grandparents, Thidder and Eva Collar, in a little hamlet in Ontario called Glen Miller.
Obsession
Trump has found the perfect masochist partner for his sadism. The more he abuses her, the more cravenly she abases herself and begs for more.
Dive into the Sheavings
Why Catholics Don’t Know What They’re Talking About
Forty years after the Council of Nicaea definitively had settled the question of whether or not Jesus was God and condemned Arius as a heretic, a huge number of bishops, as well as most the cultured elite had more or less given up trying to actually live by the teaching
Between Atheism and the New Age
Creation is, in a certain sense, one gigantic sacramental created by God, at least in part, in order to communicate his love to us. In her beauty, we see something of the beauty of her Creator; in her vastness, something of his immensity; in her complexity, something of his creativity;
Sacraments: Baptism, Part 3
A common question bedeviling the whole discussion of Baptism is the issue of what the Church means by the “necessity of baptism”. Extremes can be found on both sides. Some Catholics will insist that all that “necessity of baptism” jazz went out with Vatican II and nobody really believes that
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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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