Dwight Longenecker's Blog, page 148

How Should I Participate at Mass?

I’ve had a good question from a reader: What are we, the faithful (read: not clergy) supposed to do during the Mass? I understand that the post-Vatican II era severely mis-understood what Vatican II was all about and tried to tell us that to participate in the mass we had be involved in a ministry [Read More...]

In God We Trust in Greenville

Kathy Schiffer’s been in town again this week and she blogs here about here visit to Greenville and our Bible Belt town’s plans to post “In God We Trust” in the town council chambers. A national movement of local governments is seeking to display plaques which read “In God We Trust” in the halls of government around the [Read More...]

Mother is “An Unrelated Gestational Carrier”?

There’s a picture online of a couple of homosexual fellas who used modern medical technology to get themselves a baby, and there’s an internet buzz about the story. Let’s put the homosex issue on one side and ask some other questions… The woman who gave birth is referred to as “an unrelated gestational carrier.” In [Read More...]

Michael Voris is Not Welcome…

…at a pre gay pride parade Mass at a parish in New York. I have to admit, I don’t tune in to Michael Voris very often. I worry that he is so much against the “Church of Nice” that he ends up being nasty. I also think he should choose his targets more carefully. What’s [Read More...]

On the Devil, Dentistry and Tooth Decay

 I was visiting my dentist, Dr Payne the other day, and while sitting in the chair with my mouth full of machinery and his fingers I was musing about dentistry and the devil. This is not to compare Dr Payne to the devil. He, you will see, is much more like Jesus. But I am [Read More...]

Stars and Stripes

Here is this week’s article for the Imaginative Conservative. It’s a Fourth of July meditation on freedom and responsibility. The stars and stripes are a kind of symbol of the freedom and responsibility balance. The stars, if you like, representing the aspiration to noble freedom. The sensible stripes, the bars of discipline and responsibility we [Read More...]

Todd Unctuous on Hobby Lobby

Guest blogger Todd Unctuous is top commentator for MSM. With a degree in Media Studies from Scranton Community College, Todd writes for many papers and websites, and is known for his incisive writing, objective reporting and razor sharp comment. As we prepare to celebrate the Forth of July vacation this weekend I am deeply concerned [Read More...]

Married Priests?

Deacon Greg notices that the subject of married priests does not come up on the agenda of the Synod for the Family and comments here. Here are a few of his observations:       If—and it’s a big if—the rules regarding priestly celibacy are one day relaxed, it does not mean that priests will start dating.  [Read More...]

Roadside America

In a piece first published  a few years ago, Anthony Esolen immortalizes Roadside America– a little slice of Americana from Berks County Pennsylvania–where I grew up. On a dead-end stretch of what was once U.S. Route 22, in a small village with tacky-friendly billboards boasting “Genuine Dutch Cooking,” where old folks and even some of the young [Read More...]

Poor Ole Hillary Clinton

  This critique of Hillary (She Who Must Be Obeyed) Clinton at LifeSite News is okay, but the author doesn’t really get it. She Who Must Be Obeyed said that she found the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Hobby Lobby case “deeply disturbing.” Clinton added  “it’s very troubling that a salesclerk at Hobby Lobby who needs contraception, which is [Read More...]