Grace Force Podcast Episode 93: Fr. Dwight Longenecker – Confronting the Heart of Darkness

by Fr Richard Heilman | June 2, 2021 6:02 PM

Confronting the Heart of Darkness

Fr. Dwight Longenecker[1] explains his fascinating journey to the Catholic priesthood: “I was brought up in an Evangelical home in Pennsylvania. After graduating from the fundamentalist Bob Jones University with a degree in Speech and English, I went to study theology at Oxford University. Eventually I was ordained as an Anglican priest and served as a curate, a school chaplain in Cambridge and a country parson on the Isle of Wight. Realizing that the Anglican Church and I were on divergent paths, in 1995 I and my family were received into the Catholic Church. For ten years we continued to live in England where I worked as a freelance writer and charity worker. Then in 2006 the door opened to return to the USA and be ordained as a Catholic priest. I now serve as Pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, South Carolina.”

In this episode of the Grace Force Podcast, we look at the Church and the world as “Confronting the Heart of the Darkness,” which is the subtitle to Fr. Longenecker’s most recent book, Immortal Combat[2].

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