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Pope Francis, contraception, and the problem of ecclesial authority

August 4, 2022 E. Christian Brugger 187

It’s been reported (see here and here) that the recent text from the Pontifical Academy for Life (PAL), Etica Teologica della Vita (Theological Ethics of Life, Vatican Publishing, 2022), advocates among other things the disregarding […]

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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 […]

Chapp's Schtick

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 […]

Books

New book argues Scott Hahn is a “Catholic fundamentalist”—and fails badly

November 24, 2021 Eduardo Echeverria 23

Sean Swain Martin argues in his book, American Pope: Scott Hahn and the Rise of Catholic Fundamentalism (Pickwick Publications, 2021), that Scott Hahn, noted Catholic author and longtime professor of biblical theology at Franciscan University […]

Essay

God’s Law of Love: A Spirituality of the Ten Commandments (Part 3)

March 10, 2021 Peter M.J. Stravinskas 6

Having considered man’s obligations to God on the first table of the Decalogue, we now move to the second for our responsibilities toward our neighbor. We begin with the duty to honor one’s parents, which […]

The Dispatch

Ecclesia and Excommunication

September 4, 2020 Carl E. Olson 9

On the Readings for Sunday, September 10, 2017 […]

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Who is your Jesus?

April 6, 2018 Thomas M. Doran 6

When it comes down to it, many of us rather have a Jesus we’re comfortable with than conforming our lives to that one unique and […]

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My first piece of advice regarding the lengthy, provocative interview with Pope Francis published today in America magazine is this: skip the mainstream media accounts (and interest-group press releases) that are already spinning the pope’s […]

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