Why Blogs Will Die August 27, 2016  by  Fr. Dwight Longenecker It doesn’t seem possible that I have been blogging for ten years, but it’s true. I started Standing on My Head in September 2006. For the last six months I have been blogging less and less and I have been wondering why. One of the reason is that I have simply run out of steam, but there is more to it than that. I think blogging itself has pretty much run its course. Over the last ten years with blogging, e-books and print on demand everybody and anybody can have access to instant global publication. Remember the old saying, “Everyone has a book in them….and for most people that’s where it should stay.” With the technology we now have it doesn’t have to stay there anymore. Neither do the articles, opinion pieces, news videos, speeches, pictures of your supper or your latest rant when you were feeling hangry…. need to remain unpublished. As a result everybody and anybody is able to write wh...

Here is an excerpt.  From   Vatican Insider : “In Europe, America, Latin America, Africa and some Asian countries we are seeing some real ideological colonisations,” he repeated. “And one of these, I’m going to say it outright, is  gender ”: “Today, children, children! are told at school that they can choose their sex. Why are they taught this? Because the books are supplied by the people and institutions that give you the money. These are the ideological colonisations backed also by countries that wield a great deal of influence. And this is terrible. Speaking with  Benedict XVI ,” he said, “who is well and lucid, he told me: ‘ Holiness, this is the age of sin against the Creator! ’ He is intelligent! God created man and woman;  God made the world like this, like this, like this… and we are doing the exact opposite. ” Watch video:

A s I relate in my book, Paul VI  Paul VI offered libido as one way Satan, the “malign, clever seducer” undermines man’s sexual morality with his “sophistry.” The Devil’s strategy here, as the Pope cautioned, is “eminently logical.” He approaches man with what amounts to a false reason in his mind, which, if dwelled on, can influence the will by rousing him to do something evil which seems to be good. Deceit is basic to his strategy. A contemporary demonstration: During the Synod on the Family in 2015  Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge  argued against using the terms “intrinsically disordered” or “evil” to describe homosexual acts.  Moreover he argued that the traditional Catholic understanding of loving the sinner while hating the sin “no longer communicates” “in the real world” where sexuality is “part of [your] entire being.” Result? The moral legitimzation of mortal sin as revealed by the Creator!

At the close of Vatican II, Blessed Pope Paul VI remarked that Christianity, the religion of God-Incarnate, had encountered the religion of man-made God. He was of the opinion that much of the Council was given over to demonstrating the compatibility of Enlightenment belief with Catholicism.  Several years hence, on June 29, 1972, Paul delivered another assessment of the state of the Roman Catholic Church since the close of Vatican II. As Cardinal Silvio Oddi recalled it (in an article first published on March 17, 1990, in Il Sabato magazine in Rome) the Holy Father told a congregation: We have the impression that through some cracks in the wall the smoke of Satan has entered the temple of God: it is doubt, uncertainty, questioning, dissatisfaction, confrontation. And how did this come about? We will confide to you the thought that may be, we ourselves admit in free discussion, that may be unfounded, and that is that there has been a power, an adversary power. Let us c...

The following discourse took place on social media, concerning Hilary Clinton's view that   the  Unborn Person Doesn’t Have Constitutional Rights’:  Susanne Sadly many women vote democrat on this one issue ... most of them have ZERO clue as to what third trimester abortion is or that the unborn "person" would likely survive birth. Makes me sick! Rose Thank you for sharing Donald. Donald What you also notice and what I think God will judge more harshly than disbelief in God, are this folks who claum to be Christian but don't speak out against abortion. This of course, makes them hypocrites but far worse than that in God's view. It takes courage to speak out. Most people are not courageous. Kim I know many people who claim to be Catholic but are pro abortion. I just don't know how the justify this in their head and heart... Did you ever notice that when people take issue w...

P ope Paul VI became of a mind that by 1972 an “adversary power” which he called by his name  –   the Devil  –  had entered the Church. Bishop Fulton Sheen warned us in his popular retelling of the life of Christ, The Eternal Galilean : "Do not mock the Gospels and say there is no Satan. Evil is too real in the world to say that. Do not say the idea of Satan is dead and gone. Satan never gains so many cohorts as when, in his shrewdness, he spreads the rumor that he is long since dead." Such an attitude only leaves the devil freer than he would otherwise be to work to gain souls for hell. “I am who am not.” A 1997 survey of beliefs about Satan revealed that 69 percent of Catholics believe that “Satan is only a symbol of evil;” only 26% believing that “Satan is a living being.” Pope Paul instructs us that the former position is “a departure from the picture provided by biblical Church teaching.…” This appears as one little “crack in the wall” through wh...

I am one of the generational Catholics schooled in the Faith by the teaching of the Baltimore Catechism prior to Vatican II, which the post-Vatican II religious education establishment branded as defective pedagogy. My quarrel with them is not over their contention concerning the style of teaching, but rather their view that the truths of the Catholic faith on the existence and nature of God, the creation and Fall, the Incarnation and Redemption, and the Church set down in the Baltimore Catechism were defective as well. My experience after 36 years of  teaching  in  Cathodic  schools, all of them since  Vatican  II, is that CAtholic students are still doctrinally illiterate when  compared  with pre-Vatican II students. Here is proof.