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Words from A Reader

After putting up with junk from combox trolls it’s heartening to receive this feedback from a reader of my book Praying the Rosary for Inner Healing: Fr Longenecker, I read your book “The Rosary for Inner Healing” earlier this year…it helped me so much, it helped me to deal with issues of anger, physical abuse, lies [...]

Used Toilet Roll for Sale?

Go here for a collection of amusing signs from around the world…

Stick ‘Em Up 2012

OK, now pardners. You know the drill by now. This here good padre is needin’ you to dig deep and put some of your ole hard earned into the kitty. It’s what he calls the annual ‘Stick ‘em Up’ campaign. I know, I know I kin jes hear y’all bellyakin and moanin’ and groanin’ about [...]

FaithWorks! – 8

Go here for the eighth edition of my free, weekly newsletter FaithWorks!

Elections and Eternity

I keep remembering how, in the time of the Judges, the Israelites longed–yea lusted–for a king. They had God as their king–communicating through the judges and prophets. But no. They wanted a real King! They wanted a ruler. Something there is in people who want a savior. They want a Messiah. They want a Leader. [...]

Old MacDonald Catholicism

Here is my Tuesday homily for the year of faith: Old MacDonald Catholicism. Not the restaurant, but the song you used to sing in first grade…Read the homily. You’ll soon get it. This week is my annual Stick ‘Em Up Campaign. If you like this blog please donatehere.

The New Evangelization- Pressures on Publishing

For this year’s Stick ‘em Up Campaign I am writing a series of articles about my work in the New Evangelization–some of the amazing opportunities opened up by the new technologies and some of the challenges that face us. If you are a regular reader I hope you will learn about what is going on [...]

Prince Charles May be a Vampire!

The Daily Telegraph reports that Prince Charles is related to Vlad the Impaler–the legendary blood drinking vampire! Go here. No doubt Duane Mandible will have something to say about this in a few days’ time. It clearly confirms the conspiracy theories of David Icke who tells us that the senior members of the royal family [...]

Caitlin O’Rourke on Evangelizing

Guest blogger Caitlin O’Rourke is a member of St Bridget’s, Church, High Dudgeon, New Jersey. Caitlin is ten years old. These two people came to the door on Saturday when Daddy was putting up some shelves and he looked out the window and hit his thumb with a hammer and said a bad word which [...]

Why I love the Corrupt and Crime Ridden Catholic Church

My tweets must have been re-tweeted to a less than sympathetic audience because a reply came floating back that anyone with a conscience should leave the “corrupt, immoral, crime ridden Catholic Church.” What I find curious in the present wave of anti-Catholicism is that the new atheists and the old fundamentalists resort to many of [...]