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Fleeing Reality

The principal effect wealth and power always have is to cocoon the wealthy and powerful from the consequences of their actions. When the wealthy and

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Holiness Therapy for the Not So Holy

When C.S. Lewis was approached by a publisher and invited to write a book about the problem of pain, he asked to be allowed to write it anonymously, since, he said, “if I were to say what I really thought about pain, I should be forced to make statements of

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It’s Personal

One of the most common claims you will hear in our ongoing national conversation about faith is the notion that faith is “personal” and therefore not a fit topic for public discussion. The only guess I can make about why people would make such an absurd assertion is that they

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Confirmation: The Gift of Might

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

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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 SonThis 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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