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Yesterday, we asked if there is a more balanced picture that reverences both Unam Sanctam and Lumen Gentium as authentic magisterial teaching? Yes. To find it, let’s begin with
Over the past couple of days, we’ve been talking a bit about Hell and damnation. For Catholics, that very quickly brings us to the Church’s
A reader writes: Hi Mark, I shared your post with the reader’s remarks about Trump, Heaven and Hell, with my SSPX sister. Here is her
After Vietnam, the West in general and America in particular went through the great MASHification of culture, in which military and masculine virtues were despised and denigrated for a decade or two. Soldiers were routinely painted as baby-killing psychos, or as brain-dead gung ho types ready to order their troops
If David lived today, I have a feeling not a few modern-day Perfecti in the blogosphere would read something like this: Psalm 51For the leader. A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him after his affair with Bathsheba. Oh great! Here it comes. A happy-clappy hymn from
My friend Ludwig was troubled again. We had talked before about the Catholic understanding of grace, but he still found the notion of sacraments uncomfortable to his Evangelical bones. Ludwig said to me, “It seems to me that the Catholic image of grace is vaguely magical, as though grace is
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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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