Column by Dr. Larry Chapp
In my youth I attended a very conservative seminary for my undergraduate formation. I was fine with that since I was a very conservative young man theologically, filled with the usual zeal that comes with […]
If there is one common denominator that links all of the various forms of Catholic progressivism together it is their allergy to the scandal of Christ’s particularity and the Christian claim that this particularity represents […]
I want to begin by thanking Dr. Matthew Minerd for his generous and thoughtful response to my recent article on who it is that controls the narrative of modern Catholicism. Dr. Minerd and I have […]
Vatican II was unique in the history of councils insofar as the crisis it was called to address was not a specific and well-defined theological heresy. Rather, it was called to address the crisis presented […]
Mary Eberstadt, in her wonderful new book from Ignatius Press titled Adam and Eve After the Pill: Revisited (an updated version of her 2013 book on the same topic), makes a great case for why the […]
In a documentary titled “The Pope: Answers,” filmed in June 2022 and just released by Disney+, Pope Francis gives answers to hot button questions from ten young adults about sex, abortion, and gender. Many of […]
When I was a young seminarian I studied moral theology under the tutelage of the late, great Germain Grisez (1929-2018). I did not agree with all aspects of his “new natural law” theory, but his […]
A recent Crisis online article—“OK, Boomer: It’s time to move on from Vatican II”—articulates a point of view that has become far too prevalent today among young Catholics who are suffering through a kind of […]
Cardinal Robert W. McElroy of San Diego, in his recent manifesto on synodality (“Cardinal McElroy on ‘radical inclusion’ for L.G.B.T. people, women and others in the Catholic Church”) in America magazine, has done us a […]
I am writing after attending the funeral for our beloved Pope Benedict XVI on this cool and cloudy January day. I found the Mass both dignified and reverent, although quite short as papal funerals go. […]
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