Dwight Longenecker's Blog, page 97

Pita Priest’s “Pastoral” Slap Down at A Funeral

Feisty Catholic blogger Katrina Fernandez, known as The Crescat went to her beloved Grandmother’s funeral Mass only to be humiliated and embarrassed by the priest when she went to receive communion. She writes about the experience here and she ain’t happy. Katrina is a courageous single Mom who struggles to make ends meet. She was not only [Read More...]

Christians Dishing Out Toxic Soup

Are food pantries and soup kitchens always a good thing or are we inadvertently handing out deadly food and toxic soup? I’m exaggerating to make my point about what’s called toxic charity. My article for Aleteia this week focusses on the non productive way we do our charity work. Those who run the soup kitchens, homeless [Read More...]

Pope Francis the Big Coward

I know. I know. The headline was misleading, but I couldn’t resist. Catholic News Agency reports on the pope’s  recent interview with an Argentinian shanty town paper the pope admitted that there is a threat to his life from ISIS, but he puts himself in the Lord’s hands saying that he does not fear death, [Read More...]

Join Me and Johnette to Celebrate Divine Mercy Weekend

Johnette Benkovic will be coming to Our Lady of the Rosary Parish In Greenville, South Carolina for a Divine Mercy Weekend. On Saturday, April 11 join Johnette, myself and EWTN radio personality Steve Wood for a day conference on The Divine Mercy and the Family. Johnette will give two talks, and Steve and I will [Read More...]

Ten Reasons Why Christ Conquered Caesar…

I’ve just finished a book I had been wanting to read for some time,The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries Stark is a sociologist and with years of research and a sociologist’s tools he asks how a tiny Jewish [Read More...]

Must I Bake That Gay Wedding Cake?

My latest article at CRUX is half of a debate on whether a baker, florist or judge must participate in a same sex wedding. Donna Carol Voss at the Religion News Service writes, It’s one thing to uphold deeply held religious views when they are private. Private views are not subject to consistency, fairness or [Read More...]

Why Do the English Ignore Their Greatest Writers?

My article this week for the Imaginative Conservative wonders why the English neglect C.S.Lewis, J.R.R.Tolkien and Chesterton. It is as if they are embarrassed by them. Is this simply English snobbery at work–in which they could not possibly pay any attention to a writer who was so common as to write books that people actually want [Read More...]

Ten Things You Should Tell Your Altar Servers

Altar servers are REALLY important, but too often they don’t know why. That’s why sometimes they show up late or don’t show up at all. Sometimes they don’t seem to take pride in their job because maybe no one has told them why they’re so important. So if you help with altar servers, or you [Read More...]

NY Times Cuts POTUS Bush

American newspapers stink. I’ve never come across a more biased, close minded, slanted and propagandistic reporting than in the mainstream American press. In Britain the major papers have an angle, but you know what they are. The Times is middle of the road. The Telegraph is conservatives. The Guardian is left leaning. That’s okay because [Read More...]

The Table Turning Jesus

The story of the cleansing of the temple has always invigorated and inspired me. I think it’s because of my dislike of the gentle Jesus meek and mild with pretty robes, combed hair and a little lambkin on his shoulder. Table turning Jesus is more like the avenging angel in one of those early Clint [Read More...]