Dwight Longenecker's Blog, page 41

What I Learned When I Visited a Casino…

I was brought up very strictly in a Christian home. We didn’t go to movies. We didn’t go to dances. We didn’t smoke or drink. Heck, we weren’t even allowed to play cards because they were linked with gambling. Then some years ago I visited Detroit and my host took me out to lunch. Bob [Read More...]

Praying for Princes and Politicians

My article for Aleteia this week recommends prayer for politicians. One of the charming things about being an Anglican were the petitions in the Book of Common Prayer for “HMQ” aka Her Majesty the Queen. How quaint and Queenly is this beautiful prayer? Almighty and everlasting God, we are taught by thy holy Word, that [Read More...]

Should A Priest Comment on Politics?

My blog posts criticizing Trump have elicited some pretty nasty emails from Trump supporters blaming me for being a Sanders supporting Communist, Marxist and blaming me for never condemning Clinton, Nancy Pelosi or Biden. Anybody who has read this blog with any frequency at all will know that I’ve thrown plenty of stones at that [Read More...]

The Chair of Peter: Furniture Matters…

As a convert you come across some unusual practices within the Catholic faith (said he, making the understatement of the year) One of them for me was to find that there was a feast day for a chair. What was I–poor Bob Jones graduate that I was–to make of such an odd celebration. There it [Read More...]

America Wants a Trumperor

Is history repeating itself in a remarkable and disturbing way? Do you know what happened to the Roman Republic? First, did you know that the Roman Empire was preceded by a Republic? For about five hundred years just before the birth of  Christ Rome was governed by a Republic. It was not exactly like our [Read More...]

Trump or Pope? Choose You This Day Whom You Will Serve

I have been astounded to receive emails and FB attacks from Catholics who side with Donald Trump against Pope Francis. That so many Americans have fallen in love with this loud mouthed, lying, bragging, adulterous con man is bad enough, but when I read that a good number of Evangelicals are swooning at his feet [Read More...]

Trump Dumps Pope in South Carolina

The Pope pops Trump Trump Dumps Pope. Has it occurred to anyone else that Donald Trump’s attack on Pope Francis has happened in South Carolina–a state not known (errmm) for its love of Catholics? After all, this is the state where the Bob Jones crowd protested the visit of John Paul II in 1987, and [Read More...]

Scalia and Don Quixote Catholicism

    My latest blog post at National Catholic Register compares Justice Antonin Scalia to Don Quixote and says we need more like him… Addressing the Knights of Columbus, Justice Antonin Scalia said, “God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools …If I have brought any message [Read More...]

Why Don’t We See More Miracles?

Over at ChurchPoP they’ve reprinted one of my old blog posts about miracles. Why then, are there not more miracles reported amongst those who believe? There are a couple of reasons. For one, very often our “belief” in miracles is purely academic. We say we believe in miracles because it is part of our whole [Read More...]

Confession in an Old Ambulance

View More: Live News|More News Videos A Louisiana priest is going out into the highways and byways to bring confession to the people.