October 31, 2026
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My Annual Compleat Historie of Hallowe’en
Every year, somebody stoops down to instruct us ignorant Catholics about the real origins of Halloween. According to that pop history, it was originally a
October 30, 2026
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Part 2 of our conversation about the seduction of the “pro-life” movement
…continued from yesterday:
October 29, 2026
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I am writing a book on the corruption of the “pro-life” movement…
…into the most spiritually and physically deadly heresy in the history of the US Church. Its tentative title is SEDUCTION: HOW THE PRO-LIFE MOVEMENT SOLD
October 28, 2026
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Spiritual Warfare, Part II
Last time, we began talking about the problem of how a Catholic should respond to deliberate acts of desecration of the Eucharist. We discovered that Scripture shows a curiously double-sided response from Christ and his Church which I sum up as “forgive and fight”. This pattern is laid out for
Sacraments: Baptism, Part 1
Ponce De Leon trooped around the New World looking for the legendary Fountain of Youth. If he’d been as good a Catholic as he was a soldier and explorer, he’d have known that the Fountain of Youth was right there in his local parish back in Spain. The power unleashed
The True Meaning of the Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes
A Thanksgiving Mass reading from the gospel according to AmChurch: The Jewish feast of Passover was near. When Jesus raised his eyes and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, he said to Philip, “Where can we buy enough food for them to eat?” He said this to
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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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