Gaudium et Spes 22
"The truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate Word does the mystery of man take on light."
Interview with Kale Zelden and Larry Chapp on the Numbing Down of the Church
Linked below is my latest interview on the “Side Show Kale” videocast. We continue our discussion of the Numbing Down of the Church.
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The Numbing Down of the Church: Part Four: The Universal Call to Holiness and the Semi-Donatist Option (sort of)
“In the early days of the Church, it appeared at first as self-evident that Christians must also be holy in the fullest sense of the word. Accordingly, the struggle
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The Numbing Down of the Church: Part Three: The Tridentine Traditionalists and their Vendetta against Vatican II
“You are the way the truth and the life. You are the beginning of the new creation. Give me the courage to venture this new beginning, not merely in the
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Video Interview with Kale Zelden. Topic: The Numbing Down of the Church
Last week I had the wonderful experience of being interviewed by podcaster Kale Zelden. Our conversation was focused on my latest blog series on the numbing down of the Church,
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Interview with Zac Crippen of the Creedal Catholic podcast. Topic: The Constantinian arrangement and its failures
Zac Rippen runs the Creedal Catholic podcast and I have now done three interviews on his show. This is the first video interview. The topics were all related to my
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The Numbing Down of the Church: Part Two. The Pod People Catholicism of the Left and the Right
Blog Master’s Note: My original plan was to follow my first post in this series, which focused on Catholic liberals, with a post on the surging numbers of the
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A note to my subscribers
Recently a “test” message was sent to my subscribers. This was a result of upgrades and changes that are being made to the blog site. My apologies for any confusion
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The Numbing Down of the Church: Part One. The Dung Beetles
Blog Masters Note: What follows is not a guest blog but the beginning of a new series of blogs by me entitled “The Numbing Down of the Church” which will
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Stranded Under the Southern Cross: News from a Shrinking Church
This is a story about a Church that got smaller, apparently overnight. In some places, it got so small that the people in it really started to feel lonely. I’
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In Defense of Vatican II
Blog Master’s note: what follows is a guest blog from Apolonio Latar III. His biographical information can be found at the end of the post. This is a long
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The Valor of the Unshielded Heart: A Lenten Meditation
“But … the situation in which this truth emerges is now that of suffering … which lays man bare in his vulnerability, forcibly exposing and humiliating him. Only a great and majestic
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Let’s Try Again: Anger and Church Reform
Blog Master’s Note: The following is the first in what I hope will be a series of guest blogs. Today’s post is by Teresa Messineo. Her biographical information
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