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May 2018

May 18, 2018

Why Creeds?: The Conclusion

In which I finish up my little series for The Catholic Weekly on the necessity...

May 16, 2018

C.S. Lewis and the Recent Massacres in Israel

C.S. Lewis writes in "The World's Last Night": I can imagine no man who will...

May 15, 2018

Reader Delali Adadzie writes from Africa….

Hi uncle Mark, I need a favour/favor from you. I have just started a website...

May 15, 2018

Why Creeds?: Do This in Remembrance of Me

The next chapter in our discussion of the Creed is here: It was only when...

May 14, 2018

The Interesting Structure of the Noah Narrative

Pete Vere pointed this out to me. It's the interesting structure of the Noah narrative:...

May 12, 2018

The Return of Torture

In 2009, Pew did a study of support for torture among Americans and found that...

May 11, 2018

A reader asks for my take on a passage by Calvin

He writes: Hi Mr. Shea! I read your book By What Authority? awhile back and...

May 10, 2018

Interesting Observation about the Consecration Narratives in the Synoptic Gospels

Sometime back, I gave a talk based on my little book This is My Body:...

May 09, 2018

Adventures in Teaching Non-Christians

I had a couple of fun conversations with some kindly and curious non-believers recently and...

May 08, 2018

What Catholics Have Sacrificed…

by Allying with Evangelical Republicans: The affair of Fr. Patrick Conroy's tendered and withdrawn resignation...

May 07, 2018

Ask Your Doctor If the Blood of a Virgin is Right for You

Everybody need a hobby. Reader Laura Freeburn's odd hobby is translating medieval German texts into...

May 05, 2018

Commonweal Follows up on Austin Ruse’s Massively Stupid Attack on Common Decency

So last week, I chronicled a bit of Austin Ruse's anti-semitic, idiotic, and false attack...

May 05, 2018

My Chum Mike Drollman…

...got interviewed for the Servants Heart program about the Central Washington Catholic Youth Camp. If...

May 04, 2018

Pete Vere Asks the Musical Question….

"Is it time for a New Catholic Apologetics Movement?" He's got a bunch of good...

May 03, 2018

Mailbag: On Judging

A reader writes: I hope you are doing well, and that this past Lent and...

May 02, 2018

Why Creeds?: Everything Old is New Again

In which we continue our look at creeds in The Catholic Weekly: As we saw...

May 01, 2018

A refutation of a disgusting Right Wing Culture War Lie

So a particularly stupid Whataboutist Gotcha from some of my readers runs thus: We should...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

Christianists Cry Wolf

As far as I can tell from the chatter (and not having seen the whole...

April 28, 2018

Austin Ruse Blows the Jewish Dogwhistle

Austin Ruse, who is definitely not sending out anti-semitic dogwhistles or anything, claims that Simcha...

April 28, 2018

An interview with Catholic bioethicist Dr. Jacqueline Abernathy

...on the latest Connecting the Dots. We are discussing Alfie Evans and various end-of-life issues....

April 28, 2018

Marshall McLuhan interviewed by Fr. Patrick Peyton

Here's something you don't see everyday:

April 27, 2018

The Uses of Alfie Evans

There are, in this world, two ways in which the tragedy of Alfie Evans is...

April 26, 2018

Why Creeds?: Gaining my Religion

Part 4 of the Creed series over at The Catholic Weekly: Last time, in this...

April 25, 2018

How I spent the an afternoon and how I never want to spend another afternoon

Reader: What do you think about Alfie Evans? Me: I don't know anything about...

April 24, 2018

My End is in My Beginning: the Final Days of the Great Shea Western Voyage of Discovery

And so it came to pass that, lo, we did awake in the rest area...

April 23, 2018

Why Creeds?: Adventures in Being Spiritual, Not Religious

In Part 3 of my series for the Catholic Weekly, we encounter the problem with...

April 21, 2018

Not coincidentally….

The biggest consumers of Fake News are the Christianists and true believers who constitute the...

April 20, 2018

Today is the 19th Anniversary of the Massacre at Columbine

...and more than 200,000 students have experienced gun violence since then. Meanwhile, the only thing...

April 20, 2018

Why Creeds? The Danger of Making the Church a Club

In part two of my series at the Catholic Weekly, we take a look at...

April 19, 2018

Carbon Monoxide vs. Oxygen

Fun fact: Hemoglobin has 200 times the affinity for carbon monoxide that it has for...

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