The Family: Icon of the Trinity
Mark Shea From the Jun 2000 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine My nephew Tom came home from first grade in anguish. At dinner he could barely keep the tears out of his six-year-old eyes. When his parents...
View ArticleReading Scripture for All It’s Worth
Mark P. Shea From the Oct 2000 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine Recently, a non-Catholic man I know (we’ll call him “Bob”) noticed that Matthew says of John the Baptist, “His food was locusts and wild...
View ArticleDying for Love: The Biblical Revelation of Mercy
Mark P. Shea From the Mar/Apr 2002 Issue of Lay Witness Magazine As Hans Urs von Balthasar has pointed out, “truth is symphonic.” Scripture generally reveals truths in precisely this symphonic way, and...
View ArticleThe Seamless Garment
The Church proposes what is called a “consistent ethic of life.” It must, of course, do so because it is bound by sacred tradition to the proposition that all human beings, without any exception...
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