A Note on Our Catholic Brother
Mark Shea and Summorum Pontificuм
The Holy Father's Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificuм, as expected, has been received with great alacrity and positively by those who long awaited the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass codified by Pope St. Pius V.

Also, as expected, the reactionaries (who hold that the Catholic Church was established by decree of the Second Vatican Council in 1965), have had and are still having their field day in decrying -- to say the least, criticizing -- the mind and motive of Benedict XVI.

Among these reactionaries and revisionists are neo-Catholics who are converts from evangelical and fundamental Protestantism, who, it seems, have not divested themselves of their protestant baggage and have completely embraced the Catholic ethos, but have brought their excess baggage along with them after crossing the Tiber. Now that they are "firmly entrenched" and have become bona fide citizens of the City of God, they believe that it is incuмbent upon themselves to arrogate the appellation, "Catholic Apologist," and thus have out forward their interpretation of what Catholicism is.

Notorious among these neo-Catholics is Mark Shea, who has gone as far as insulting faithful Catholics (who he labels as "those traditionalists") who are moving in droves to the "restored" ancient Liturgy of the Latin Church. Without understanding what the Immemorial Mass is (described by Fr. Faber as "The most beautiful thing this side of Heaven"), Shea has gone even to the point of alluding to a fixation one may have for shoes (!) that a Catholic looks to the liturgy of the Mass.

Is Mark Shea a Catholic, or does he have a peculiar brand of Catholicism? If one reads what he wrote in the article, "Some Thoughts on Motu Proprio Man ia," one would come out believing Shea does not know Church history (a commonality of Protestants). "To be deep in history is to ceased being a Protestant," as Ven. John Cardinal Newman once posited.

To the reference of "shoes," he says, "The point of shoes is not to notice them, but to walk in them. Shoes you constantly notice are Bad Shoes. Liturgy you focus on is liturgy that's not doing its job, which is to refer us to God, not to itself." Mark Shea has got it backwards. The N.O. is all about celebrating "man made god," feel good about oneself, meet to socialize within the Liturgy itself.

In the defense of the Novus Ordo Missae we always find it amusing to hear the platitude, "I'm not like the others, I attend a reverent Novus Ordo Mass" something
which is getting rarer and rarer to find these days.

Shea is still inprisoned in the cell of his protestant background, and is yet to become fully Catholic. We pray that this should be forthcoming very soon. He hasn't completely crossed the Tiber.

SOURCE:     http://www.alcazar.net/mark_shea.html

having been a part of a group email involving him, can tell you he is very flippant, brushes things off and can be arrogant and nasty at times....

will do, very informative post

yes, they-Hahn, Shea-like to boast they are Catholic, but prefer the sappy, NO type Catholicsm (a form really in most parishes of Romanized protestantism)

From having read some of Mark Shea's writings, he is a big-tent Evangelical turned a big-tent (read cafeteria) Catholic. Even the Protestants he debates with have pointed this out to him.

Exactly like Hahn, who specialized in attacking Catholics before his "conversion", and who now specializes in attacking "cradle Catholics" and the Franciscans are allowing him to hide behind their robes while he trains his cadres and sends them to bust up the parishes.  

I think it is important to point out to Protestant converts who may be reading this that in all charity, there is a difference between "joining" and "converting" and if you join the Catholic church without converting,  that is, if you receive the Sacraments and profess to believe according to Catholic doctrine, but you are still "protestant" in culture and interpretation of those doctrines, that does not interfere with your salvation or your fitness to witness to others. You are Catholic, you are saved, but the difference is that you may be misunderstanding a great deal of what you have received and until you fully comprehend the total character of the Catholic Church you really are not a "convert".  

The Catholic Church differs from the Protestant in that our salvation is not dependent upon our understanding, it is dependent upon our obedience. Understanding this is important because too many protestant converts turn around and attack the very Catholics who converted them almost before their knees lift off the floor at their Confirmation.

I'm not a Canonist, but I'm willing to bet money that your confession was valid and the Church supplied jurisdiction in this case.  You had every reason to believe he had faculties.

Sounds like nonsense to me.  Either the "pipsqueak" was ignorant or playing ignorant...