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2017-01-25T09:20:17-05:00

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Why Don’t We Build Beautiful Churches?

Last updated on: January 25, 2017 at 9:20 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

A reader sent me an email thanking me for the beautiful new Our Lady of the Rosary Church and asked why we don’t build more beautiful Catholic Churches. It’s complicated. First there is an ideological reason. Some modernists considered the second Vatican Council to be a kind of revolution in the church and that everything old had to go and everything new was necessarily a good thing. Therefore, for the last forty years there has been a stripping of the... Read more

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2017-02-13T13:05:25-05:00

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Ten Reasons Why the Women’s March Will Come to Nothing

Last updated on: February 13, 2017 at 1:05 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Embed from Getty Images First, let me say that I am totally on board with any woman who thinks Donald Trump’s vulgar words about women are worth protesting. I’m also totally with any woman who thinks his cheating on two wives and marrying a third is not only low class, but mortal sin. I’m also totally with the women who are protesting Bill Clinton’s sorry record of sexual abuse of women, rape, sexual harassment and victimizing women. I’m also... Read more

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2017-07-05T11:04:44-05:00

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The Problem With Protestantism

Last updated on: July 5, 2017 at 11:04 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

One of the complaints of Protestant converts to the Catholic religion from is that they miss the “fellowship” they enjoyed in their previous church community. By “fellowship” they mean the warm friendship, camaraderie, sense of shared faith and personal commitment. When they come to the local Catholic church they are likely to find not only that it is five times larger than their Protestant church, but the members are from a wider range of socio-economic, ethnic and racial backgrounds. My... Read more

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2017-01-15T09:42:17-05:00

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Questions for the Archbishop of Malta

Last updated on: January 15, 2017 at 9:42 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

As an ordinary parish priest it falls to me to actually deal with the cases of divorced and re-married people. I’m the person on the front line, and am therefore the one who has to deal with their questions and help them in their chosen situation. Therefore I am grateful for any guidance from above, and any bishop who offers advice on the way forward is trying to help me do my job. I have read with interest the letter... Read more

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2017-09-25T13:10:30-05:00

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Worried About the End of the World?

Last updated on: September 25, 2017 at 1:10 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

The end of the world, like an overdue bus, is always just around the corner. Read more

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2017-01-13T10:44:30-05:00

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On Being a Critical Catholic

Last updated on: January 13, 2017 at 10:44 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

When I became a Catholic I had a few people snark, “How nice for you! You won’t have to think anymore.” I’d never deny that there are robotic Catholics who either can’t think for themselves or who think its a sin, but I haven’t met that many. Most of the Catholics I come across are at least a little committed to thinking things through and taking their faith thoughtfully. Of course there are some who come along every Sunday and... Read more

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2017-01-12T12:22:29-05:00

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Time for Some Ecumenical Common Sense

Last updated on: January 12, 2017 at 12:22 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

With the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Revolution this year there seems to be a heightened enthusiasm for ecumenism with the Lutherans. Far be it from me to rain on anyone’s parade, but when Cardinal Kasper says he hopes the Pope’s next statement will open the way to inter-communion in special cases I wonder exactly in what kind of wonderland he is living. Then I see in the wave of ecumenical “dialogues” that are going on, that... Read more

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2017-01-12T09:13:13-05:00

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Document Discovered of a Jesus Eyewitness?

Last updated on: January 12, 2017 at 9:13 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Here’s one to make people click: The headline reads “Newly Found Document Holds Eyewitness Account of Jesus Performing Miracle” It got me. I clicked through and read the article. It sounded so convincing. In the Vatican archives a scholar unearthed a manuscript from a first century historian who recounts a journey from Persia to Rome, and on the way he witnesses a miracle by Jesus of Nazareth. Is that Good News or Fake News? If this were true it would... Read more

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2017-01-11T07:16:52-05:00

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Should Dylan Roof Be Executed?

Last updated on: January 11, 2017 at 7:16 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

It seems impossible to comprehend why Dylan Roof felt it necessary to gun down nine good Christian people at a Bible study. The fact that he planned the massacre, sat in the Bible study with the folks for half an hour and then opened fire is incomprehensible. His lack of remorse and cold hearted disregard for his victims and their families is horrible. He thought they were sub human. He seems sub human. He’s a rat, a cockroach in human... Read more

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2017-10-09T12:28:50-05:00

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10 Reasons Why the Rosary Is Powerful

Last updated on: October 9, 2017 at 12:28 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

The Rosary is a powerful weapon against evil. But have you stopped to figure out why? Read more

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