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Chapp’s Schtick

Column by Dr. Larry Chapp

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The cult of Mammon and the culmination of Advent

December 17, 2022 Larry Chapp 16

We are now near the conclusion of Advent and the Christmas season fast approaches. In the spirit of Advent, I was watching a YouTube video recently about the meaning of the Nativity. Doing so, I […]

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Angry hypocrisy and convenient ultramontanism at Nat’l Catholic Reporter

November 17, 2022 Larry Chapp 52

The folks over at the National Catholic Reporter must think we have poor memories or no memory at all. For decades, the Reporter positioned itself as the loyal opposition to what it viewed as an […]

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How Christocentric and Spirit-filled are the synodal machinations?

November 10, 2022 Larry Chapp 57

While in Rome some years back, I was wandering about aimlessly somewhere in Trastevere and I stumbled into a church (I don’t remember which one) and saw the flickering of light at a votive candle […]

pope john xxiii leads the opening session of the second vatican council in st. peter's basilica at the vatican oct. 11
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Vatican II: Five views sixty years on

October 15, 2022 Larry Chapp 46

Everybody I know seems to be writing something on Vatican II these days and I began feeling a bit left out of the fun. So, I thought I would jump into the mosh pit of […]

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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 32

“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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