Hey! It’s Lent! So let’s learn about the Works of Mercy!
Back in the day, I wrote this here book here called THE WORK OF MERCY: BEING THE HANDS AND HEART OF CHRIST (available here, signed
February 19, 2026
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Ash Wednesday
I. My God, my God, have mercy on my sin,For it is great; and if I should beginTo tell it all, the day would be
February 18, 2026
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Three Points on Health Care
Here is a perennial “gotcha” from the MAGA orc playbook: The answer is threefold and therefore too complex for the MAGA mind to comprehend. But
February 17, 2026
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A conversation with a reader whose adult kids are MAGA
She writes: Mark, I need some advice/help. I have daughters who are lovely women but they are excoriating me over voting for Harris, even now.
February 16, 2026
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My Big Profound Spiritual Revelation
What a day! Bus late, no breakfast, missed deadline, headaches, depression and post-nasal drip. And when I got home my kids were whiney, my wife mentally quick-fried to a crackly crunch and I was as prickly as a porcupine. Summoning fatherly concern to its height, I brushed past my weepy
When Harry Met Frodo
By now, most of the civilized world has seen the film adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and The Fellowship of the Ring, the first installment of Peter Jackson’s magnificent three-part screen adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. This leaves Catholic parents puzzled by how to navigate
Tools for Thinking Sensibly About Scripture
For some folks, it takes a lot to dispel the myth of the hyper-controlling Church that only permits Bible study among the faithful after the insertion of the Vatican Orbital Mind Control Laser Platform chip in the frontal lobe of the brain. Indeed, it may come as a shock 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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