Homepage

Welcome to the website of Catholic author Mark Shea! Read his recent musings on the blog, or purchase his books from the store. 

Recent Posts

See all Posts

Dive into the Sheavings

Eternity and the Future

August 2000 marks my 42nd birthday. It is a strange thing to arrive at this particular birthday because I’ve been looking forward to it for about 30 years or so and yet, now that it’s here, it does not at all seem like what I expected back then. Back then, in

Read More »

Catholics and the “F” Word

One of the difficulties in the increasingly successful rapprochement between the Catholic Church and our separated brethren is that secular culture often muddies and confuses the growing goodwill between these two groups of Christians. To understand how such muddying happens, we need to understand what secular culture has done to

Read More »

In Search of the Sinister and Elusive Neo-Catholic

Over the past decade, the mysterious epithet “neo-Catholic” has been tossed around now and then. I first ran across it from Fr. Joseph O’Leary, the famed “Spirit of Vatican II” combox denizen who seems to have endless amounts of time to troll the net on behalf of gay causes and

Read More »
See all Sheavings

Follow Mark on Twitter and Facebook

Get updates by email

Subscribe to the Blog

NEW BOOK!
Advertise Here

Advertisement

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…..

Read More

Shop

Shop all products