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Recent Posts

Election Day, November, 1884

If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show,‘Twould not be you, Niagara—nor you, ye limitless prairies—nor your huge rifts

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As the Election Draws Near…

Remember that the GOP crime syndicate perpetually uses accusation as confession and nowhere is this more obviously true than in matters of life and death

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Dive into the Sheavings

More than Our Father

The Creed balances many difficult ideas and paradoxes (as that God is one and three, that the immortal Son became mortal man, that life issues from death, and a thousand other mysteries). But the very first bit of balancing the Creed does is to propose three different titles by which

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Down the Memory Hole

James Franklin is a man with a truly impressive forehead. If you were going only by the photo on his homepage you might suspect he was the next Bond supervillain. But in fact, he’s a Professor of Mathematics and Statistics at University of New South Wales, so you know he’s pretty

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Why We’re Called the Catholic Church

G. K. Chesterton once remarked that Catholics agree about everything; it is only everything else they disagree about. That is to say, Catholics (and by this he meant “Catholics who know and believe their Faith”) agree on a few cosmic truths summarized in the creeds, prayers, sacraments, and common life of the

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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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