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  • Bruno the Bald January 16, 2015
    In attempting to collect a pantheon of bald headed saints we have come across the difficulty of the tonsure. Was the saint really bald headed or was his head shaved? A reader sent me this splendid photo of St Bruno–the founder of the Carthusian order, but we are uncertain if he is really bald or [Read More...]
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • Is This a Miraculous Image of the Divine Mercy? January 16, 2015
    This article reports a miraculous image of the Divine Mercy in the Northern Lights. Is this really what it is or we seeing things? This phenomenon is called pareidolia. Go here to check it out. It is the ability to “see things” or hear things that aren’t really there. Typical examples are seeing things in [Read More...]
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • No Mary? No Jesus January 16, 2015
    This week’s article for Aleteia highlights the Holy Father’s homily for the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God In his homily for the Solemnity of the Mother of God on New Year’s Day Pope Francis made the very clear point that we cannot have Jesus without Mary.  The Pope taught, “The two were together, just [Read More...]
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • Myth and Magic in the Mundane January 16, 2015
    My article this week for the Imaginative Conservative discusses the way the ancient myths were embodied in the history of the Hebrew people What very few have stopped to realize is that in the midst pagans telling fantastical stories of star gods visiting earth and titanic struggles between the deities of their pantheons, the same [Read More...]
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker
  • Dialogue with the Devil January 16, 2015
    Some time ago a blogger wrote an “open letter” to me inviting me to engage in discussion on a topic where we disagreed. To avoid specifics and get down to the core issues, let’s say the topic was the pastoral care  of remarried divorced people in church. So I went to the blog and read the [Read More...]
    Fr. Dwight Longenecker