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The Universal Call to Holiness: Part Three. The non-heroic Church and the False Accusation that Holiness is a Sectarian Perfectionism
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The Universal Call to Holiness: Part Three. The non-heroic Church and the False Accusation that Holiness is a Sectarian Perfectionism

“To live together as brother and sister? Of course, I have high respect for those who are doing this. But it is a heroic act, and heroism is not for

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Interview with Dr. Larry Chapp and Kris McGregor on Balthasar’s Love Alone: part two
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Interview with Dr. Larry Chapp and Kris McGregor on Balthasar’s Love Alone: part two

Here is the next installment of my interview with Kris McGregor.  It looks like there is also going to be a part three.   And there will be a new blog

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A podcast interview between Larry Chapp and Kris McGregor on the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Part One: “Only Love is Credible.”
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A podcast interview between Larry Chapp and Kris McGregor on the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. Part One: “Only Love is Credible.”

Love Alone is Credible with Dr. Larry Chapp pt. 1 - "Balthasar: Beauty, Goodness, Truth" Podcast Linked above is a podcast I did with Kris McGregor which is part

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Evangelization from Within Guardini’s “Threshold”
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Evangelization from Within Guardini’s “Threshold”

“There are those who experience profoundly the mystery of life at the threshold. They live decisively neither here nor there. They live in a no-man’s-land.  They experience

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

“The profession ‘There is only one God’ is, precisely because it has itself no political aims, a program of decisive political importance: through the absoluteness that it lends the individual

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A Christmas Meditation: The Vulnerability of God
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A Christmas Meditation: The Vulnerability of God

“In the child Jesus, the defenselessness of God is apparent. God comes without weapons, because he does not wish to conquer from outside but desires to win and transform us

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The Universal Call to Holiness: Five Kids and a Goldendoodle
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The Universal Call to Holiness: Five Kids and a Goldendoodle

I begin this post, as I sometimes like to do, with an admission.  As I thunder and bluster about the bourgeois worldliness of the modern Church, and the need for

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