Mark P. Shea

Bio

Mark P. Shea is a popular Catholic writer and speaker. In addition to being co-author of the smash bestseller A Guide to the Passion: 100 Questions About The Passion of the Christ, he is also the author of By What Authority?: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition (Our Sunday Visitor), Making Senses Out of Scripture: Reading the Bible as the First Christians Did (Basilica), This is My Body: An Evangelical Discovers the Real Presence (Christendom Press), and The Da Vinci Deception: 100 Questions About the Facts and Fiction of The Da Vinci Code (Ascension).

His most recent work is the acclaimed Mary, Mother of the Son trilogy (Catholic Answers). An award-winning columnist, Mark contributes numerous articles to many magazines, is known nationally for his one minute "Words of Encouragement" on Catholic radio and has appeared numerous times on TV both at home and abroad.

Speaking Topics

  • 101 Reasons not to be Catholic There are a million reasons not to be a Catholic and only one reason to be one. You be the judge.

  • Behold Your Mother: An Evangelical Discovers the Blessed Virgin Mary Few things are more ooky for a nice Evangelical than Catholic devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Here's the story of how this Evangelical came to see that Catholic Marian theology was thoroughly biblical, refreshingly sane, and deeply satisfying to the soul.

  • By What Authority?: An Evangelical Discovers Catholic Tradition The authority of Sacred Tradition is the big dividing line between Catholics and Protestants. This is the story of how an Evangelical, with the unlikely help of the Jesus Seminar, became convinced that Catholic Tradition was the other side of the coin of biblical revelation.

  • Care and Feeding of the Lay Catholic Apostle Lay Catholics are called to do the vast majority of the work in the New Evangelization. This talk gives some tips, not only to lay people about the cultural and theological glitches that confront the lay apostle in Millennial America, but to clergy and religious who are interested in helping to form their flocks into fellow workers in the Vineyard.

  • The Eucharist and the Four Senses of Scripture A look at the way in which Word and Sacrament illumine each other in startling and unexpected ways!