National Catholic Register Bloggers feed from Mark Shea

By Mark Shea | Joy, said Chesterton, is the small publicity of the pagan, but the gigantic secret of the Christian. This somewhat mysterious remark was brought into sharp clarity for me by, of al...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/what-sort-of-story-are-we-in

By Mark Shea | One of the curious side effects of my line of work as a Catholic writer is that people will sometimes confess very odd phenomena they normally won’t discuss with people who aren�...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/why-me-why-inot-i-me

By Mark Shea | Once upon a time, I was talking with a friend, a fellow convert who (as is common with us) was wondering why on earth Catholics who don't believe much of what the Church teaches ...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/catholic-converts-and-cradle-catholics

By Mark Shea | As you read this the Sheas are chilling in a tent on the shores of the mighty Pacific Ocean here in our beloved Washington State. I love every part of this annual sojourn.  I lov...

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By Mark Shea | The center of our Faith is Eucharist. Eucharist means “thanksgiving”. That means that the center of our Faith is thanksgiving. It is in the form of a thanksgiving meal that our...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/gratitude

By Mark Shea | When I was a kid I believed my family knew everything. My brother Mike, after all, could work wonder by turning me invisible with a mere “Abracadabra!” I’d run around the hou...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/priests-are-men-not-vending-machines

By Mark Shea | I run into lots of Catholics who feel bad about the divided state of Christendom yet also feel powerless to do anything about it. "After all, this is the 20th Century. Don't most P...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/love-meeting-love-ecumenism-for-us-ordinary-people

By Mark Shea | Long, long ago--when the giant man in my house named Peter (who just turned 21) was only 3 and his kid brother Sean was only 2--it was a daily occurrence that (barring rain) I woul...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/what-i-learned-on-a-walk

By Mark Shea | Sometime back, I wrote a little piece about John Lennon’s hymn to original sin (aka “Imagine”) expressing my bafflement at the fact that people (including Catholics who ought...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/the-lennon-letter

By Mark Shea | Here’s an article by an atheist who bears an uncanny resemblance to Jack Chick. He theorizes on What Rome Is Up To when a couple of Catholic sources remark that the discovery of ...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/secular-parousias

By Mark Shea | It is notable that when St. Thomas argues for the existence of God he does not point to seeming exceptions to the laws of nature and ask, "Why are there exceptions to the rules?" T...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/thomas-and-the-sciences

By Mark Shea | The origin of the term "holiday" is Holy Day. A Holy Day is a day set apart for something. Our present understanding of the term "holy" always assumes that the thing set apart is s...

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By Mark Shea | It once seemed perfectly obvious to me that Catholics honored Mary too much. All those feasts, rosaries, icons, statues and whatnot were ridiculously excessive. Yes, the gospel of ...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/how-i-came-to-think-differently-about-mary

By Mark Shea | Here's an email about a website called "New Covenant Ministries" (a self described "No-nonsense, Honest, Direct, Prophetic, Apostolic, Priesthood of All Believers , Post-Trib, Sabb...

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By Mark Shea | Last time, in this space, we started looking at how doctrine develops in the life of the Church.  Today, we will take a look specifically at how the Church's doctrine regarding "w...

http://www.ncregister.com/blog/mark-shea/how-tradition-gave-us-the-bible-part-two