From the comment box: Fr. Longenecker,This is a comment about your entire blog. If someone told me that I could only choose one blog to read, I can honestly say it would be yours. It is the most thoughtful, the most intelligent, the most reasonable of all the Catholic blogs. Aww, shucks! Well that sho is real sweet of you!  After a week of not much blogging (sometimes my batteries go a little bit dead) That encouraged me to keep... Read more

I sometimes wish the guys at Anglican Wanderings didn’t make me so nostalgic for Anglican Churches and England. Go here for more. Read more

CMR has this news clip about some writer woman who talks about her abortion. She says she knows it was killing her baby, but it was ‘absolutely the right thing to do.’ Here’s where we going: as medical technology and photography and everything else continues to present the hard truth that a fetus is an unborn child not a collection of cells the more everyone will have to admit that abortion is the murder of an unborn child. Instead of... Read more

At St Joseph’s School each student belongs to a household. This is sort of a combination homeroom/fraternity. Boys and girls households are separate. Each household comprises boys or girls from 9 – 12 grade (in the High School) and 6-8 grade in the Middle School. So the kids stay in that household for their whole school career. Good relationships can be forged. Older kids look after younger kids. Younger students look up to the older ones. The household is a... Read more

Today we had a traditional May crowning of Mary at school. Thirty students representing the thirty households at school brought flowers forward in procession. I read e.e.cummings’ poem, ‘i thank you god for most this amazing day’ and spoke from the heart about Mary and May. We celebrate Mary in May because May reminds us of Mary. The freshness, the deep down things are so alive in Mary and in May. The trees blooming and in bud, the birds chasing... Read more

I give you a new commandment: love one another: not as people who pretend to love in order to corrupt one another, nor indeed as people love one another genuinely but in a human way. Rather, they love one another as those who belong to God. All of them are children of the Most High and consequently brethren of his only Son. They share with each other the love with which he leads them to the end that will bring... Read more

A friend of mine called recently to vent about the awfulness of his parish. He attended a funeral where, instead of the homily, gave a pretty lame eulogy about the deceased. The poor woman was not actually a very pleasant or sociable individual, and of course Fr Folkmass went on and on about how popular she was. Then he invites the family to say a few words about the dear departed and nobody can think of anyone to say. My... Read more

A reader asks why Protestant pile of dung theology is a re-hash of Arianism. It would have been more precise to say that it is a re-hash of Adoptionism. Whoops. Blog posts are written quickly.  First I should explain what I mean by ‘Protestant pile of dung theologies.’ This is a reference to Luther’s idea that because of original sin we are totally depraved and are worthless in God’s eyes. However, because of the death of Christ God looks on... Read more

Old Baldie is slightly worried that some readers are still not aware that Todd Unctuous and Ed Blanch are a couple of his alter egos. Let me spell it out: Todd is not a real person. Fr. Dwight writes the Todd Unctuous columns himself. He makes Todd sound as stupid as possible. Ed Blanch is also not a real person. This is done to make fun of dumb main stream media journalist and “I read an internet article so it... Read more