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On the anniversary of Nicaea: Interpreting Vatican II as a ressourcement council. My latest in The Pillar

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Unfortunately, it is behind a pay wall since Pillar subscriptions are not free. https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/ecumenical-councils-and-their-aftermath. Larry Chapp. Support Gaudium et Spes 22 by clicking on the button below!…

Announcing our 2026 Fundraiser for Supporting our New Ministry in Scranton

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Because it means that my ministry (and I do consider what I do on the blog a vocational/missional ministry) is having an effect, no matter how miniscule, and I do think this is caused by the fact that nobody has to pay a penny for any article or podcast.…

An update on the fundraiser with lots of great photos

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Your donations have also made it possible for this blog to continue since it will help pay for all of the fees associated with it. Thanks again to one and all. I wanted to add some photos of just a few of the things your donations have allowed us to do.…

The Universal Call to Holiness: Five Kids and a Goldendoodle

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All of those things are good and holy to be sure, but the death to self they entail are often less than what is asked of any parent who struggles to pay the light bill and who must care for sick or troublesome children.…

A Call Within A Call for Renewal: Father John Gribowich Reflects on His Own Vocation and the Current State of the Church

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We should expect that many who have attended Mass because it was the conventional thing to do will stop attending and that those who have no real conviction about the truths of the Faith will be reluctant to pay a high price for those truths and will increasingly keep their distance.…

Balthasar’s “Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved”: A Defense

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This is Balthasar’s objection to those who only pay attention to one set of statements and privilege them over the others.…

Some thoughts on the Synod as I head to Rome

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I do not think Rahner would approve of the crass uses to which his theology of grace has been put, but in a nutshell what many of his followers asserted was a belief that due to the universal presence of God’s grace in all souls that we must pay greater attention to how the Holy Spirit speaks…

The Church and politics on this election day.

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(Phil. 2:7-8) How little do we pay attention to this! How little do we pay attention to it as it applies to the Church as well and to our politics.…

The Numbing Down of the Church: Part One. The Dung Beetles

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Most American bishops, true to their managerial class instincts to not rock the boat, prefer to act as if life in the Church is just business as usual, even as they pay lip-service to the pesky “tragedy of the sexual abuse crisis” – – a tragedy that they themselves created and for which they…

Orwellian Synodality

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Pay attention to words and what they really mean since, as I said, there is an Orwellian exercise in double speak going on here. And pay attention to whatever artwork and videos the Vatican promotes as indicative of what the Synod is really all about.…

Letters from Andrew and my response: the hermeneutics of kenosis.

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He famously said that in developing doctrines the Church must pay very close attention and adhere to that which is of antiquity, had a universal acceptance, and could be found in almost every church. In his most famous work (the.…

Maritain’s Donkey: American Violence and Eucharistic Incoherence

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But for Archbishop Rummel this was a price he was willing to pay since institutionalized racism is a grave moral evil to be resisted in the name of the Gospel. And so he let the chips fall wherever they damn well fell.…

So-Called “Synodality” and the Myth of “Hyper Papalism.”

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I never got decent pay raises anyway since theologians are treated by Catholic universities as mere icons for a catholicity they only promote at fundraisers, and so I cared not one wit to show them any reciprocal loyalty.…

My Response to Dr. Ralph Martin’s Response

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Because if it is predictive then we need to pay attention to the fact that Christ must be saying that most people are destined for eternal perdition. And if he rejects that implication then he is admitting that Balthasar’s views on such verses as admonitory have merit.…

The Subversive Christocentrism of David L. Schindler: A Personal Reflection and Two Testimonials from Former Students

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Marcello Pera was there to give the presentation and I was trying to pay attention, but it was difficult to do so since DLS was practically radiating energy from three seats down: bent over the table, writing furiously—crossing out words and writing new paragraphs on his typed-paper—knee…

The Universal Call to Holiness: The Eucharistic Liturgy and the Unity of Sanctity and Sacrifice

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And before we all cynically roll our eyes and say “fat chance” we should pay greater attention to the fact that there are people and groups out there who are currently working tirelessly to make these reforms a reality. My wife, Dr.…

The Numbing Down of the Church: Part Three: The Tridentine Traditionalists and their Vendetta against Vatican II

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Even after Nicaea the Church had to contend with massive ongoing dissent from the Arian remnants in the Church, including from the Roman Imperium, and some loyal saints, like Athanasius, had to pay a high price to defend the truth.…

The Hermeneutic of Continuity: Part II. Pope Francis, Vatican II, and the Neo-Traditonalists

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After all, they said then, outside of the creeds and a few statements from Councils and Popes, most of the Church’s teaching is of the non-infallible kind and there are therefore, “levels of authority” in the teaching of the ordinary magisterium that we must pay attention to.…

The Destruction of the John Paul II Institute in Rome and Why it Matters

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Therefore, I have for the most part stopped paying attention to what he says and instead pay attention to what he does. His words are all over the map and inconsistent to the point of incoherence.…

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

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If he were a garden variety liberal theologian the traditionalists would pay him no mind and just throw him on the dung heap of modernist heretics without much further thought.…

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