Are there any RECENT Catholic heroes with the long hair/beard combo?  Like from the last 200 years?

Maybe the Great Monarch will.

Charlemagne:

There aren't many recent Catholic heroes, period.  

But regardless, all that would prove is what I said before-- short hair is an innovation of masons and liberal revolutionaries of the last three hundred years.

St. Paul the Apostle says that women should have long hair as it is given to them over against a covering like a veil. He goes on to say that a man should not have hair as long as a woman's. It's clear that we're talking about a hair length that is considerably longer than what we see in pictures of noblemen and kings of old. Otherwise many Popes and Bishops would have spoken out against the hair length of men in their day.

I would much rather see a faithful Catholic man who looks like D'Artagnan, not only in hair length but in propriety of dress and noble comportment, than a liberal Newchurch indifferentist who looks like the typical suburbanite with a crewcut and attends 'church' in Bermuda shorts and sneakers.

But regardless, all that would prove is what I said before-- short hair is an innovation of masons and liberal revolutionaries of the last three hundred years.

Ver. 15.—But if a woman have long hair it is a glory to her. To let the hair grow long is contrary to what becomes man, is the mark of a weak and effeminate mind, unless it is done because of ill-health or intense cold. Hence S. Augustine reproves some monks who wore their hair down to their shoulders, to gain the appearance and reputation of holiness (de 0p. Monach.). Again, it seems fitting for a man to pray with uncovered head, for a woman with covered, as the Apostle has proved here. The woman ought, therefore, to let her hair grow long, but not the man, for her hair was given her for her covering.

Take note, however, that it is not absolutely enjoined, either by natural, Divine, or ecclesiastical law, that a woman should let her hair grow long and man should not. Hence, as was said in the notes to ver. 6, religious women cut off their hair. On the other hand, the men of some tribes, like the Gauls, used to let their hair grow long for an ornament. Hence we get the name of Gallia Comata. Homer, too, frequently speaks of the “long-haired Achæans.” The Romans, also, in ancient times, grew their hair long, and did not apply the scissors till the time of Scipio Africanus. Pliny says (lib. vii. c. 59) that the first barbers came into Italy from Sicily, A.U.C. 454. Lycurgus also enacted that the Lacedæmonians should retain their hair.  S. Paul, therefore, is not laying down any rule, but merely points to the teaching of nature, that it is fitting for a woman, when she goes out in public, to go with bonnet and veil, but not for a man. Still, he here adopts the decency taught by nature, and wishes the Corinthians to observe it as if it were a precept, hence he adds—

… A flat-top crew or military cut is ideal …

Quote from: Mithrandylan

Good Catholics are in short supply.  It has nothing to do with the length of hair.

Yes, which is precisely why threads like these are without any redeeming value.