March 7, 2026
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The Work of Mercy: Visit the Sick, Part 1
We moderns can be awfully smug when it comes to Old Testament taboos. Many people assume such taboos were nothing but superstitious, prescientific attempts to
March 6, 2026
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The Work of Mercy: Harbor the Harborless, Part 2
Yet we are commanded to harbor the harborless. We can become personally involved, and we can supply financial support. For instance, a small non-denominational church
March 5, 2026
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The Work of Mercy: Harbor the Harborless, Part 1
One of the most exasperating bits of exegetical trendiness to afflict First World Catholics for the past thirty years or so has been the endless
March 4, 2026
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Freedom is Scary
You know the drill: The Church is a prison that shackles the hearts and minds of people who yearn for the freedom to think and act as they please. It is a stifling cell in which the best and the brightest are not allowed to be free due to the
The Immaculata vs. the Philosophies of Pride
Pope John Paul II once observed that: “Original sin attempts… to abolish fatherhood… leaving man only with a sense of the master/slave relationship.” In all the 19th Century Philosophies of Pride ranging from Marx to Nietzsche to Freud to Darwin were founded on the denial of God as Father, and the
The Culture of Fear
A culture of death is a culture of fear and ours is a culture of death. Fear is a sort of background radiation, a certain slant of light coming through red, lowering clouds and casting a strange pall over what used to be called “normal life”. The signs of it
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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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