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Bishop Robert Barron is interviewed by Larry Chapp

A wide ranging discussion on evangelization

Larry Chapp

5/6/2022

Catholic Worker

A Manifesto of the New Traditionalism

A Manifesto on the true traditionalism needed in our time. Written from a Catholic Worker perspective, it is co-authored by Sean Domenicic, Larry Chapp and Marc Barnes. It is a Catholic Worker perspective but with an eye toward the broader Church. If you would like to add your name to the Manifesto please contact me.

Sean Domenicic, Larry Chapp, Marc Barnes

12/22/2021

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Bishop Barron Presents: Conversations at the Crossroads interview with Dr. Larry Chapp

Larry Chapp

8/24/2021

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Crisis in the Church

A Final Word on "Synodality": A Response to Dr. Adam DeVille's Proposal

Larry Chapp interviews Mike Sauter: Ivan Illich and Related Topics

A wonderful conversation on Illich, Sophiology, and related topics

Larry Chapp

5/24/2022

Crisis in the Church

The Crisis that is the Gospel

We must choose. Not to choose is to choose.

Larry Chapp

5/19/2022

Ressourcement Theology

Robert Mixa of Word on Fire: A Follow-up Conversation on Education

Robert Mixa is full of wisdom. A great conversation.

Larry Chapp

5/17/2022

Crisis in the Church

A Priest reflects on the state of the Church and his own vocation: An interview with Fr. John Gribowich

Vocation, mission, and the state of the Church. A blunt assessment

Larry Chapp

5/15/2022

Apologetics

A Discussion on Apologetics with Karl Keating of Catholic Answers

A great conversation with the one and only Karl Keating.

Larry Chapp

5/11/2022

Crisis in the Church

Synodality and Bouyer's Ecclesiology of Power. Catholic World Report

Can a more synodal Church avoid descending into a more bureaucratic Church?

Larry Chapp

5/10/2022

Miscellaneous

Dr. Larry Chapp interviews Robert Mixa of Word on Fire

Education, David Bentley Hart, Word on Fire, and more...

Larry Chapp

5/5/2022

Crisis in the Church

"Synodality": A "Listening" Church??

Not all the glitters is gold

Larry Chapp

4/29/2022

Best of Larry Chapp

A Married Priesthood? A Meditation on Mandatory Celibacy: The Witness of Damien Alfonso Bergman

A meditation on the discipline of mandatory celibacy for priests in the Catholic Church.

Larry Chapp

1/13/2022

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Vatican II as a Ressourcement Council. Part One: Father Robert Imbelli's Conciliar Retrieval

Vatican II has come under heavy fire from many quarters these days as a "failed council" that should just be ignored. In this first post in a new series on Vatican II I defend the council as truly profound. It was a ressourcement council and Father Robert Imbelli's brilliant analysis makes this clear.

Larry Chapp

1/6/2022

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The Hermeneutics of the Abyss: Some Thoughts on Traditionis Custodes

A discussion of traditionis custodes through a hermeneutic of the abyss.

Larry Chapp

7/19/2021

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Balthasar, Universalism, and the “Massa Damnata” Part Two: a Defense of Adrienne von Speyr

A discussion of Adrienne Von Speyr, Balthasar, Universalism, and "Massa Damnata"

Larry Chapp

5/30/2021

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Universalism, Balthasar, the Massa Damnata, and the Question of Evangelization

A discussion of universalism, balthasar, evangelization, and massa damnata

Larry Chapp

5/12/2021

Best of Larry Chapp

The Valor of the Unshielded Heart: A Lenten Meditation

How the unshielded heart leads to a recovery of what it truly means "to be saved"

Larry Chapp

2/17/2021

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The Constantinian Heathenism of the Church: Joseph Ratzinger and the Crisis of our Time

How Constantinian Heathenism within the Church is a crisis in our time

Larry Chapp

2/3/2021

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The Choice: Bourgeois Well-Being or Conversion to Christ: Beige Catholicism and the Challenges of the Young Priest

A discussion of beige Catholicism in the context of bourgeois well-being or conversion to Christ

Larry Chapp

12/11/2020

Best of Larry Chapp

The McCarrick Report and the De Facto Atheism of the Church

A discussion of the McCarrick report and its relationship to the de facto athetism of the Church

Larry Chapp

11/11/2020

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