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Articles by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap.

About Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap.
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. is the archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia and author of several books, including Things Worth Dying For: Thoughts on a Life Worth Living, Living the Catholic Faith: Rediscovering the Basics, and Render unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life.
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The Making of the Christian Man

February 7, 2026 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 8

We live in a hard time for young men in our country. It’s a time that too often seems to feed the worst male instincts, from weakling drone to selfish bully. Becoming a mature Christian […]

Essay

Thoughts on America, Age 250

January 15, 2026 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 19

Americans are bad at history. As the late Christopher Lasch and many other scholars have noted, we’re ambivalent about the past. We claim to be a “new order of the ages,” words stamped in Latin […]

Essay

On the Human Need for Beauty

July 24, 2025 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 12

I’ve always had an interest in history because history is to a culture as memory is to each of us as individuals. A man with amnesia is a man without an identity. The same applies […]

Essay

“Do this in remembrance of Me”: Memory, Culture, Sacrament

October 22, 2022 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 12

Editor’s note: The following keynote address was given by Archbishop Chaput at the Eucharistic Symposium at the Cathedral of Saint Thomas More in Arlington, VA, on October 22, 2022. ——————- Our theme today is the […]

Essay

On the Power of the Powerless

October 8, 2022 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 21

Editor’s note: This Bl. Alcuin of York Lecture was given at the Alcuin Institute, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on October 7, 2022.   My focus tonight is baptism, but I want to approach it in roundabout […]

Essay

“Things worth dying for”: What those words demand from us now

April 5, 2022 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 26

Editor’s note: The following address was given at St. Francis De Sales Seminary, Milwaukee, on April 4, 2022.  Our theme tonight is “things worth dying for,” and I want to talk about what those words […]

Books

Ideas have consequences

April 11, 2021 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 6

Richard Weaver, the political philosopher, once wrote that “ideas have consequences.” And therein lies a tale. In June 2001, exactly 20 years ago, a friend of mine and his wife attended a meeting in Washington, […]

Essay

Things To Come: Faith, State, and Society in a New World

February 22, 2018 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 31

“There are no new paradigms; no new hermeneutical principles; no revolutions in thought; and no possible concordats with the world and its alibis, that can […]

Features

Memory, Sex, and the Making of “The New Man”

February 4, 2018 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 19

The full text of the speech given Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. at the “Into the Breach” men’s conference held in Phoenix, Arizona, on Saturday, February […]

Books

“Facts” and “values” and darkness at noon

February 13, 2017 Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap. 1

(Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Charles Chaput’s forthcoming book Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World (Henry Holt and Co.). The book will be available February 21.) […]

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