I thought it was really sad and the priests wore black vestments and they had a pretend coffin in front of the altar and I didn’t want to go because Maureen wanted me to come over and play but Aunt Margaret was in her I’m not taking any nonsense kind of mood and Mom would have went but didn’t because Granny was sick and besides its not a holy day of obligation and she didn’t really need to go and she said we... Read more
Several readers have been intrigued by references on the blog to ‘healing the family tree’ or ‘generational healing.’ This ministry (to my knowledge) was discovered by an English Protestant psychiatrist called Kenneth McCall. Dr McCall wrote a book called ‘Healing the Family Tree’ in the 80’s recording his discoveries that seriously mentally ill people could sometimes have the disturbance in their life traced to an unresolved death or trauma in the family history. For example, it was revealed in therapy... Read more
I was a young Anglican priest and, from my Evangelical background, still learning about the communion of the saints, All Saints’ Day and All Souls. I found myself in a high church Anglican parish and for All Souls Day the choir always sang the Faure Requiem. I was at the altar with the parish priest, concelebrating. I was aware that he was deep in prayer. As the choir sang the offertory I was praying and I suddenly ‘saw’ a kind of... Read more
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Allow me to comment frankly about the Anglican Ordinariate in England. Damien Thompson comments here about what might happen amongst the traditionalist Anglo Catholics in England. He rightly observes that the response from Forward in Faith (the leading Anglo Catholic traditionalist group) has been ambiguous to say the least. Forward in Faith North America (led by breakaway Texas Episcopal bishop Jack Iker) has said clearly that they don’t want to be Catholics. They’ve only said what most of the Forward... Read more
My pal Cyprian Blamires in England sent me this curious YouTube above about a Eucharistic miracle in South American and meanwhile, here’s an article about an alleged eucharistic miracle in Poland. Read more
I found a copy of this classic by Gregory Dix at a used book stand at the Chesterton Conference last year and am only now getting around to reading it. In one section he reviews the terrible persecution of the church from 65 to 260 AD. What was interesting to me was that it was not illegal to believe in Jesus Christ. It was illegal to attend worship. To worship another God but Caesar was treason and punishable by death. Therefore... Read more
MSM Reporter Todd Unctuous gives his opinion on this week’s momentous news from Rome. It came as no surprise last week when the Pope in Rome launched a shameless attack on his fellow Christians in the Anglican Church. Ignoring years of careful, scholarly study and dialogue with the Anglicans, the eighty seven year old pontiff, who is a former Nazi, decided unilaterally on his own to open the doors to disaffected Anglicans. This was a blatant attempt to steal worshippers... Read more
Go here (if you can stand it) to read Richard Dawkins’ latest hate filled diatribe against the Catholic Church. He calls the Catholic Church the greatest force for evil in the world, trots out all the tired old cliches of our being misogynist, cannibalistic, homophobic killers of poor Africans. The fact that this is published in the Washington Post with a straight face is remarkable. What other major paper would dare to publish such hate filled bigotry against any other... Read more
One or two readers complain that there is not enough ‘dialogue’ on this blog. That’s a fair point I suppose, but then, this is a blog. It is not an internet discussion forum. A blog is a place for my personal views and thoughts along with the opportunity for people to comment. What is the point of dialogue? There are some good reasons for it. Dialogue between opposing factions may help to clarify the truth. It can be a process... Read more
Fr. Dwight Longenecker
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