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Seeing Things as They Are vs. Seeing Things as You Are
Jesus famously teaches his disciples that they are to love, not merely their neighbor, but even their enemies (Matthew 5:43) and uses a curious figure
The biggest tell in the MAGA rhetorical toolkit…
…is that they always always always always always always reach for the language of rape and rapists to express themselves. Perhaps the only thing the
Chatting with an Exvangelical friend about women’s ordination
I have a friend who is an old figure in American Evangelicalism who, with great integrity and at considerable cost to himself, has walked away
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Response to A Guide to the Passion Stuns Even its Authors
Tom Allen, president of CatholicExchange.com, and Matt Pinto, who heads Ascension Press, had a simple idea: write and publish a short book called A Guide to the Passion: 100 Questions About The Passion of The Christ. The basic premise is to walk through Mel Gibson’s new film (and basic Catholic teaching) scene by
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
The Need to Forgive
Every age has certain difficulties with the Christian faith. Our present culture’s complaints about the Church center on sex because, of course, our present culture can think of practically nothing but sex and so keeps bumping into the same issues as it stupidly keeps returning to the Church’s teaching in
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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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