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Kissing Old Women in Church

Last night after our vigil Mass for All Saints I kissed one of the old ladies on the cheek and said, “Just venerating one of the old relics my dear…” We had fifteen first class relics at stations around the perimeter of the church. The honor roll: Pope Gregory the Great, Pope St Pius X, [...]

For All the Saints

This hymn has great memories for me. I first learned it while a student at Bob Jones University. We went to a little Anglican Church in Greenville, South Carolina and learned some of the great Anglican hymns. Once I moved to England we sang it every All Saints Day and often for other saints’ celebrations. [...]

Monotonous Sinners and Sparkling Saints

C.S. Lewis once observed, ‘How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.’ In his little biographies of Thomas Aquinas and Saint Francis of Assisi, G.K.Chesterton revelled in the sparkling individuality of both saints.  Aquinas was the greatest philosopher of his time while Francis was a troubadour [...]

Catholicism Pure and Simple

Timothy McCormick at the Catholic Bible blog reviews my book Catholicism Pure and Simple here. If you have a blog and would like to review the book in order to obtain a free copy, please drop me an email: frlongenecker@att.net.

Los Angeles Tapestries

The tapestries of All Saints are the best thing about the new cathedral in LA

Beware the Wicked Witch?

Aleister Crowley was an English witch. He reveled in his description as ‘the wickedest man in the world.’ He was a shameless self publicist, a fraud and a charlatan, but he was also an educated, intelligent and willful diabolist. He was indeed very wicked and was definitely involved in just about every kind of vile [...]

For Halloween – On the Reality of Dark Forces

Various posts from the past on the subject of the powers of the dark side: Are Witches Real? on which I discuss the dangers of witchcraft. The horrible connections between barbaric practices in primitive cultures and our own society: Abortion, Cannibalism and Black Magic, Read my own account of a dark attack one night: Deliver Us From Evil.  

New Writings

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Duane Mandible on the SSPX Talks

Guest blogger, Duane Mandible is a contributing editor to The Truth Hurts, a bi-monthly journal of politics, economics and opinion. He also contributes regularly to Freedom Monthly; Illuminations and The Sojourner. Duane is the author of Guns and Knives will Save Your Children’s Lives. He is Vice President of the Sacred Society of St Philibustre, and enjoys hunting rattlesnakes, square dancing [...]

Hypocritical Hypercritical Critics

Remember the old joke about the man who says to the priest, “I never go to your church Father. The place is full of hypocrites!” Priest answers, “Well come along anyway. We can always make room for one more.” In today’s gospel Jesus heals a woman on the Sabbath and the Pharisees pick him up [...]