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Cardinal Francis George’s timely and timeless vision for the Church

May 7, 2025 Conor Dugan 8

Holy Thursday, April 17, marked the tenth anniversary of Cardinal Francis George’s death after a lengthy battle with cancer. In the past decade, Catholics—especially American Catholics—have suffered from his absence. With his keen intellect, deep […]

Essay

Making common cause: A contribution to the Chapp-Minerd dialogue

June 5, 2023 Dr. Richard DeClue 27

Over the past couple of years, I have been privileged to have numerous conversations and written exchanges with Dr. Larry Chapp and Dr. Matthew Minerd. I have benefited greatly from these interactions, and I consider […]

Chapp's Schtick

Catholic alliances today and tomorrow: A response to Dr. Matthew Minerd

May 30, 2023 Larry Chapp 34

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 […]

Features

Catholic theology yesterday and today: A Thomist’s response to Dr. Larry Chapp

May 25, 2023 Dr. Matthew Minerd 32

It was with great interest that I read Dr. Larry Chapp’s recent column “The Progressive Revolution’s Continued Control of the Ecclesial Narrative” (May 18, 2023). Dr. Chapp and I agree quite substantively on the current […]

The Dispatch

“We are all made with hearts, desiring truth, goodness and beauty”

May 14, 2023 S. Kirk Pierzchala 2

On a chill, mid-January morning, Oregon’s Willamette Valley is awash in a steady downpour of rain. Inside the historic Glatt House, in the farming town of Woodburn, the dismal weather is forgotten as I step […]

Essay

A Tribute to David L. Schindler: Teacher and Friend

November 21, 2022 Conor Dugan 4

The theologian David L. Schindler once wrote that: [W]e must first recognize that our being originates as a gift: it has always first been given to us by God, and indeed by others in God. […]

Chapp's Schtick

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 […]

The Dispatch

“Communio” at 50: A conversation and an invitation

September 13, 2022 CWR Staff 6

Fifty years ago, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, and Joseph Ratzinger, among others, founded the theological journal “Communio,” which set out, as Balthasar put it, to “fight at all costs against the deadly […]

Chapp's Schtick

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 […]

The Dispatch

The War of the Conciliar Succession, continued

July 13, 2022 George Weigel 22

While I’ve never been able to remember the details of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) and the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748), I’ve riffed on those monikers to denominate a major struggle […]

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