Dwight Longenecker's Blog, page 29

Who Says You Can’t Afford a Beautiful Church?

One of the most common misconceptions about traditional church architecture is that it has to be expensive. Sure, if you go with a prima donna architect with an international reputation you’re going to pay over the odds. Our little parish in the poor part of town has just built a beautiful church, and we did [Read More...]

Clinton’s Anti-Catholic Team

Part of this week’s leaked email release features an exchange from Clinton team members about “conservative Catholicism”. This article from Catholic News Agency reports on the comments. What is frightening about these ideologues is that their ignorance is always combined with arrogance. They clearly know very little about Catholicism, but they deride it and despise [Read More...]

An Ideologue or an Egotist?

A friend recently voiced their doubts and fears about a Hillary Clinton presidency and it made me think. In a few weeks’ time Americans will go to the polls. Over the last year I have posted harsh words about Donald Trump, and people have got on my case for it. “Oh Father, why are you [Read More...]

Ten Practical Ways to Win the Pro Life Battle

It is natural during a Presidential election year for the people who are pro-life to get pretty passionate against the candidate and party who are actively pro-abortion. We are also apt to get passionate in favor of the candidate or party who pledges to be anti abortion. That’s all well and good, and we definitely [Read More...]

What I Will Do If Hillary is Elected

If Hillary Clinton is elected President I will continue to fight against abortion by supporting our local charity that helps women in crisis pregnancies, by teaching the kids in my parish school about the evils of abortion, by marching for life, by preaching on the dignity of each human person from the pulpit, by working [Read More...]

Anglicans and Romans Celebrate Closer Ties?

My friend Edward Pentin reports here on some events in Rome this week celebrating fifty years of Anglican-Roman Catholic ecumenical talks. Far be it from me to rain on anyone’s parade, but the fifty years of ecumenical talks have been a resounding disappointment. I’m sure it must be a very good thing for theologians to sit [Read More...]

Pence and Kaine: Two Bad Catholics?

Embed from Getty Images Last night’s VP debate was interesting from a religious point of view because it pitted a departed Catholic against a dissident Catholic. In doing some demographic studies of the church recently I came across the statistics I already knew–that former Catholics are one of the largest religious groupings in the USA. [Read More...]

Take the Pill and Get Depressed

An interesting study reported in London’s left-leaning The Guardian here has upheld a clear link between the hormonal birth control pill and depression. A newly published study from the University of Copenhagen has confirmed a link between hormonal contraceptives and depression. The largest of its kind, with one million Danish women between the ages of 15 and 34 tracked for a [Read More...]

Is the Crucifix is a Symbol of Hate?

In today’s news a group concerned with hate crime on campus reports that one of the complaints they had was from someone who objected to a crucifix because it was “a symbol of oppression and hate of the LBGT+ community” This article reports how the University of Wisconsin/La Crosse have a “bias/hate” reporting system through [Read More...]

Trump and the American Macho Pushback

I’ve been pondering the Trump phenomenon and it is truly incredible to watch. His performance in last night’s debate was pretty awful, but that will not matter in the least, and he knows it. He is rising to power, and I predict that he will continue to do so no matter what he does. This [Read More...]