Father Longenecker is a great priest. You hate him because he used to be a protestant.
No, some people just hate everyone but especially their self which is evident in their constant whining about the horrible experience they once had. You know the type, they didn’t get the flavor of ice cream they wanted when they were six years old and are now scarred for life.
Hey, I used to be a Protestant too. Looks like he and I have something in common.
My "hatred" (as you chose to describe it) is entirely because, in order to "prove" he's a "real Catholic," he has accepted higher criticism and evolutionism. That the world's "oldest," "truest," and "most un-changing" church insists on rejecting Genesis while accepting every other miracle that comes down the pike is not logical or rational. It can come only from a profound sociological prejudice against the community most closely associated with that belief--rural white Americans (primarily from the Southeast).
You seem to have made the same journey. I'm afraid that your need to accept evolution and higher criticism in order to prove you're a "real Catholic" is just more evidence of that sickening prejudice. You can wave Jefferson Davis around all you want, but your rejection of Genesis 1-11 as actual history illustrates that all Catholics are expected to do so as well. But then, I found that out the hard way myself. The only difference in my case was, I didn't sell out.