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Articles by Larry Chapp

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".
Chapp's Schtick

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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Synodality, bureaucratic malaise, and the problem of power

May 9, 2022 Larry Chapp 55

In my previous essay I criticized the new emphasis on synodality as an essentially modern enterprise of bureaucratic legerdemain. I noted that while I support the concept of a more synodal Church, I am suspicious […]

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The quintessentially modern approach to “synodality” is empty and artificial

April 28, 2022 Larry Chapp 48

I am not opposed to a more “synodal” Church. In fact, I would welcome any move away from the cult of the modern hyper-papacy that views the pontiff as an Oracle of Delphi on the […]

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Is Vatican II “spent”? A reply to Michael Pakaluk: Part II

April 19, 2022 Larry Chapp 50

Michael Pakaluk, in his February 2022 essay “Is Vatican II ‘Spent’?”, says that what we now need, precisely in order to advance the aims of Vatican II, is a Vatican III: We need a new […]

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Is Vatican II “spent”? A reply to Michael Pakaluk: Part I

March 30, 2022 Larry Chapp 62

Michael Pakaluk, in a recent essay at “The Catholic Thing”, makes the claim that Vatican II, though containing many important teachings, has done all that it can do and will do, and is therefore, “spent.” […]

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An “ad orientem” Church in an age of horizontalism

March 21, 2022 Larry Chapp 114

Editor’s note: This essay marks the debut of a regular CWR column by Dr. Larry Chapp. Titled “Chapp’s Schtick”, it will feature Dr. Chapp’s commentary on a range of current issues, with a particular focus […]

Features

Articulating the “New Traditionalism”: A conversation with Larry Chapp

December 29, 2021 Carl E. Olson, Mark Brumley, Larry Chapp 30

“A Manifesto of the New Traditionalism”, published on the Gaudium et Spes 22 blog on December 22nd, was co-authored by Sean Domenicic, Larry Chapp and Marc Barnes. Written from a “Catholic Worker perspective but with […]

Books

A profound critique of Liberalism and an essential analysis of Integralism

May 25, 2021 Larry Chapp 7

A growing debate has emerged of late in certain Catholic circles over the Church’s proper response to political modernity (Liberalism). There are four basic positions currently in play that D.C. Schindler, who is Professor of […]

Books

A powerful analysis of American awakening, fracturing, and addicting

February 17, 2021 Larry Chapp 28

The idea that our culture is post-Christian is an antiquated bromide that is dangerous because it masks a truth that is even more troubling. And that truth is that our culture is now post-post-Christian insofar […]

Features

The Constantinian heathenism of the Church: Ratzinger and the crisis of our time

February 4, 2021 Larry Chapp 72

“The appearance of the church in the modern era shows that in a completely new way it has become a church of heathens, and increasingly so: no longer, as it once was, a church made […]

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