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About Larry Chapp
Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. He now owns and manages, with his wife, the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania. Dr. Chapp received his doctorate from Fordham University in 1994 with a specialization in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. He can be visited online at "Gaudium et Spes 22".
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The challenge of collegiality and the controversy over synodality

September 26, 2022 Larry Chapp 35

Debates and controversies over matters of doctrinal development never happen in a vacuum or in the abstract. Which is why it is always critical to assess both the intellectual milieu in which such debates take […]

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The “People of God” and the continued battle over Vatican II

September 5, 2022 Larry Chapp 31

“The real problem with popes,” a friend once said to me, “is that they die.” What he meant was that no matter how consequential a particular papacy might be, it is still at the mercy […]

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Rejecting the “low-bar Thomism” of revisionist moral theologians

August 12, 2022 Larry Chapp 53

Having reviewed the republication of Henri de Lubac’s book The Church: Paradox and Mystery, I had to accept that space constraints prevented me from discussing at more length a part of the text that moved […]

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Paradox and mystery reclaimed: A review of Henri de Lubac’s The Church

July 31, 2022 Larry Chapp 18

A few months ago, I interviewed the patristics scholar, Dr. Lewis Ayres. Dr. Ayres is understandably very favorably disposed towards the school of modern theology that has come to be known as “ressourcement” theology. However, […]

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The undermining of John Paul II in the name of Veritatis Splendor continues

July 14, 2022 Larry Chapp 228

Pedro Gabriel has penned a response to my most recent CWR article, which focused on the moral theology of Pope Francis. Gabriel’s essay is full of the kind of sophistry one has come to expect […]

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Further thoughts on restorationists—and a remark on papal sycophants

June 27, 2022 Larry Chapp 84

My recent CWR column on Pope Francis’s comments about the worrisome rise of what he called “the restorers” in the American Church appears to have kicked up some dust and not a little misunderstanding. Many […]

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The false binary between progressive accommodators and “rad trad” restorationists

June 21, 2022 Larry Chapp 90

Much ink has been spilled on the recent comments by the Holy Father concerning his assertion that the Second Vatican Council has been “gagged” by “restorationists”. Pope Francis specifically mentioned the United States as home […]

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Pope Francis, Bishop McElroy, and Amoris Laetitia

June 2, 2022 Larry Chapp 234

By now it is part of an old news cycle that Bishop McElroy is to be made a Cardinal. And the reactions to the news, as might be expected, reflect antecedent theological commitments. In short, […]

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Synodality and structure are not the essential problems

May 23, 2022 Larry Chapp 13

I would like to thank Dr. Adam DeVille for both his kind remarks concerning my posts on synodality and his willingness to push the conversation further. He has asked for my response to his proposal […]

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Temporal accommodation in light of eternal damnation

May 18, 2022 Larry Chapp 55

Hell is often depicted in Christian art as a place of unspeakable physical torments where the unrepentant sinner receives his or her just punishments for various moral perfidies and offenses against the law of God. […]

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