Mark P. Shea is an American author, blogger, and speaker working in the field of Roman Catholic apologetics. Born and raised in Everett, Washington, he describes himself as a "double-jump convert[,] raised more or less as an agnostic pagan, [who] became a non-denominational Evangelical in 1979, and entered the Catholic Church in 1987". He has been published in the Catholic World Report, New Oxford Review, The Door, Catholic Digest, and Christianity and Literature. Shea maintains the "Catholic and Enjoying It!" blog, and has been described by Andrew Sullivan as an "[a]rch-conservative Catholic blogger." Shea contributes a column to the National Catholic Register. His one-minute ?Words of Encouragement? segments have been broadcast nationally in the United States on Ave Maria Radio. Shea has appeared as the character Innocent Smith on Dale Ahlquist's television program G. K. Chesterton: The Apostle of Common Sense on the Eternal Word Television Network, and again as Innocent Smith in Ahlquist's film adaptation of Chesterton's novel Manalive; Shea also appeared on EWTN in the made-for-television film adaptation of Chesterton's play The Surprise as the captain of the guard. 

August 5th, 1958 in (Age 66)