Dwight Longenecker's Blog, page 154

How to Recognize the Anti Christ

So much gossip on the internet is doom and gloom ridden talk about the Antichrist. That wise prophet Archbishop Fulton Sheen in  Communism and the Conscience of the West discusses the Antichrist: The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will not wear red tights, nor vomit sulphur, nor carry [Read More...]

Does Pope Francis Know What He’s Talking About?

When it comes to economics does Pope Francis know what he’s talking about? Allister Heath, writing in the Daily Telegraph doesn’t think so. I must take exception to the Pope’s views on economics and business. His hostility to capitalism, shared by the Church of England, is tragically misplaced. He has repeatedly savaged free markets, most [Read More...]

Papal Peacemakers

My latest article for Aleteia reminds about the peace making role of the papacy and shows how the papacy can be the one dominant spiritual force for peace in the world. Now it is Pope Francis who takes up the baton of the world’s chief peacemaker. Can Pope Francis help resolve the most difficult conflict [Read More...]

Do You Believe in the Talking Donkey?

One of the latest wisecracks about Christianity is that to be a Christian you have to believe in a talking snake and a talking donkey. Do you stutter and stammer and errrm and aahhhm about that challenge? The critic is referring to two stories in the Old Testament. The first is the story of the [Read More...]

Old Monk on Meditation

Old Monk: You should spend more time sitting still Novice: But you are always rushing about being busy! Old Monk: That is because I have learned how to sit still while rushing about.

Nancy Pelosi: Venom Masquerading as Virtue

I have to hand it to Nancy Pelosi. The “Venom Masquerading as Virtue” line is a good one. I’m always a sucker for alliteration. That’s where my admiration ends. In this article Pope Pelosi, who last year received the Margaret Sanger Eugenicist of the Year Award, now presumes to correct Archbishop Salvator Cordileone for planning [Read More...]

Dads – Give Your Kids a Literary Kick Start

Here’s my article for the National Catholic Register on the importance of Dads reading stories to their kids. The reason children with active dads succeed is because the father helps the child to cope with the outside world. The mother is home-based. She helps a child know how to love and relate to others in [Read More...]

Time, Eternity and the Holy Trinity

This Sunday everyone will hear that the Holy Trinity is a mystery, and I’ll be reminded of my definition of a mystery: “A mystery is something that can be experienced even if it cannot be explained.” Therefore I have always found it best to discuss the mystery of the Holy Trinity through aspects of life [Read More...]

Do You Suffer From MTD?

Here is my latest article for Aleteia–which analyzes the theological disease MTD – Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. “MTD” is deadly because it eventually kills off true religion. Because “MTD” mimics true religion people think it is true religion, but then they draw the obvious conclusion: if religion is only about therapy and making the world a better place, [Read More...]

Seeing the Sacraments With X-Ray Vision

Remember those comic book ads for X-Ray vision glasses and you were worried that if someone used them they could see you naked? I never sent away to get a pair, but my friend Christian LeBlanc–who is probably one of the world’s best catechists–writes here about how he uses this idea to help teach kids [Read More...]