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2015-06-05T15:13:42-05:00

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Catholic Martyrs Pilgrimage Diary

Last updated on: June 5, 2015 at 3:13 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

We arrived in London yesterday and went drove immediately to the Tower of London where we were taken on an excellent tour. On Tower Hill we were shown the exact site where St Thomas More and St John Fisher were executed, then visiting the tower saw the Crown Jewels, the site of Anne Boleyn’s execution and found our way to the Salt Tower–the one room that is open to the public which was used to imprison Catholic priests. I was... Read more

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2015-06-03T08:04:34-05:00

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Elastic and Plastic America

Last updated on: June 3, 2015 at 8:04 am By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

Bruce Jenner’s stunning transformation into “Caitlyn” has taken America’s love affair with superficiality and stage effects to a new high. Plastered across the media with nowhere to hide is an image of a sixty five year old grandfather made up as a voluptuous young woman. And we’re expected to bow down to this image and adore as Brendan O’Neill writes here in The Spectator Leaving the totalitarian bullying of the politically correct on one side, consider for a moment what the... Read more

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2015-06-02T23:08:25-05:00

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Bruce Jenner’s New Clothes

Last updated on: June 2, 2015 at 11:08 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

You remember the story of the emperor’s new clothes. The tailors charged him loads of money to give him a total make over. He was going to be a totally new emperor. They told him how wonderful he was and they stitched and cut and made him up, and at last he went on public display. But he wasn’t wearing anything at all. Nevertheless, everyone said how beautiful he looked now. He was splendid in his new clothes. He was... Read more

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2015-06-04T12:13:09-05:00

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Vanity Fair? Call Me Confused…

Last updated on: June 4, 2015 at 12:13 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

It has been difficult not to have one’s nose pushed into a particular image this week. It is that of a former Olympic athlete dolled up as a woman on the cover of the appropriately named Vanity Fair. Readers may remember the original Vanity Fair appeared in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress. Vanity Fair is a place where every earthly delight and fancy is up for sale. This aspect of Bruce Jenner’s transformation can’t be put on one side. Here’s a guy who is... Read more

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2015-06-01T18:57:18-05:00

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The Dissolving Family and the Bio Tech Revolution

Last updated on: June 1, 2015 at 6:57 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

This week’s article for National Catholic Register explores the seismic upheaval that has been the bio tech revolution. We seem blind to the fact that we are living in the midst of the most astounding technological revolution the world has ever seen. Biotechnology is the umbrella term for all the advances we have made in medical know-how, and reproductive technology is the most socially revolutionary subdivision of biotechnology. To put it simply, we no longer approach the transmission of human life as... Read more

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2015-06-01T18:48:21-05:00

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Cheap Church Cheap Faith

Last updated on: June 1, 2015 at 6:48 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

My latest article at Aleteia defends the building of beautiful churches–beginning with the one in our parish for which we are soon to break ground. We are just about to break ground for a beautiful new church in my parish in Greenville, South Carolina. Whenever Catholics plan to lay out a significant sum of money to ensure their worship is beautiful, invariably someone will complain that the money should be spent on the poor. This is known as “Judas’ Argument”... Read more

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2015-06-01T17:08:09-05:00

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God? No Ruprecht That’s Not Our Mother

Last updated on: June 1, 2015 at 5:08 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

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2015-06-01T16:40:36-05:00

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Twelve Reasons Why You Can’t Call God “Mother”

Last updated on: June 1, 2015 at 4:40 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

The feminist Anglicans have unveiled their latest campaign. Now that they’ve succeeded in getting women ordained as priests and bishops they’re pushing for the language of the liturgy to be changed to call God “Mother.” Here are twelve reasons why you can’t call God “Mother” 1. Jesus tells us to call God “Father” – The really big reason comes first. Jesus himself tells us to call God Father. Of course the feminist activists don’t take something like the Bible or even the words... Read more

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2015-05-31T20:22:51-05:00

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Anglicans Push to Call God “Mother”

Last updated on: May 31, 2015 at 8:22 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

This article in the Daily Telegraph is old news. It tells us how the feminists in the Church of England want to get rid of the patriarchal language in the Church and call God “Mother.” It is sort of a news item because it comes hard on the heels of the first ordinations of women bishops in the Church of England. On the other hand, it’s not news at all. Over twenty years ago when I was a minister... Read more

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2015-05-31T14:26:12-05:00

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American Atheistic Materialism

Last updated on: May 31, 2015 at 2:26 pm By Fr. Dwight Longenecker

This week’s article at The Imaginative Conservative reveals how our materialistic habits are actually (beneath the surface) a form of atheistic ideology. At depth, materialism is that philosophy that assumes and asserts that there is nothing more than the material world. “What you see is what you get.” The true materialist does not believe in life after death, heaven, hell, demons, angels, miracles and “all that medieval stuff.” Instead he wants “all that modern stuff”, and by that he means... Read more

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