Larry Chapp

A response to Paul Baumann at Commonweal

Giving doctrinal authority to national episcopal conferences is a bad idea

The triumph of the penultimate over the ultimate. The triumph of the pragmatic over the transcendent.

The Church's mission is to evangelize the Christ of Revelation. Which is to say the Christ of the Church

The path of secularization is a proven recipe for ecclesial disaster

The Synod remains an undefined project

There is a puzzling outsized representation of Jesuits at the Synod.

Synodality seems designed to keep Catholics in a perpetual state of adolescent grievance

The spirit of true Catholicism is a spirit of joy