A Married Priest Responds to ‘Amoris Laetitia’: 9 Questions for Father Dwight Longenecker

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Sean Salai, S.J. | Apr 20 2016 - 9:57am | 12 comments

Father Dwight Longenecker (photo provided)

Father Dwight Longenecker is a Catholic priest, husband and father of four who serves as pastor of Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Greenville, S.C. Raised as an evangelical Christian in Pennsylvania, Father Longenecker converted to Anglicanism while attending Bob Jones University. He later studied theology at Oxford University and became ordained as an Anglican priest. After converting to Catholicism in 1995, he spent the next 10 years writing about Catholicism, eventually being ordained a Catholic priest in December 2006 under the pastoral provision for married former Anglican clergy.

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