Mark Shea’s Blog About Stuff

God gives us the gifts we need, not the gifts we necessarily want. Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof famously complains, “If wealth is a

We seem so often to be incurable legalists when it comes to the things of God. Some people talk as though Baptism doesn’t really stick

Biblical authors (and other ancient Christians) have a habit of referring to the mysteries of the Christian faith by means of euphemism or code words.

There are two traditions—East and West—when it comes to the sacrament of Confirmation, and they show how doctrine can develop and unfold within the Church

Being as how Pentecost was on Sunday, and Pentecost is all about the Coming of the Holy Spirit in power, and Confirmation is also about