The Colloquy, Session 2: Dr. Larry Chapp On The Law of Proportionate Polarization (S11, EP07)

February 12, 2026

Used with permission from Midnight Carmelite

Are we trying to manage the Holy Spirit through bureaucracy? Larry Chapp and Andrew Gniadek discuss the "Law of Proportionate Polarization," the crisis of institutional "beige Catholicism," and why the path to renewal lies in the "Sanctified Register" of the saint rather than the position papers of the committee.

Are we trying to manage the Holy Spirit through bureaucracy? Larry Chapp and Andrew Gniadek discuss the "Law of Proportionate Polarization," the crisis of institutional "beige Catholicism," and why the path to renewal lies in the "Sanctified Register" of the saint rather than the position papers of the committee.

Larry Chapp

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