Larry Chapp
My Latest Podcast Interview with Kale Zelden: The Bourgeois Church of “Watchers” and the Crisis of Morale in the Priesthood
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Louis Bouyer’s Ecclesiology of Service and the “Credibility” of the Church: An Advent Meditation.
In the light of twenty centuries of Christian life and ecclesiology … one point seems obvious, and is, in fact, found beneath most reform suggestions of Vatican II: what most encumbers
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Larry Chapp Interview on the “Open Door” podcast: The Current Situation in the Church and Culture
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Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus: A Reader’s Excellent Email Prompts a Question: Has the Church Erred in the Past or in the Present?
Blog Master’s Note: What follows is a wonderful email I got from a reader who is a convert to Catholicism from Protestantism. Other than that little detail I will
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Dr. Ralph Martin’s Obsession with Bishop Robert Barron. A Response to his Latest Video
“Begin with the beautiful, which leads you to the good, which leads you to truth.” Bishop Barron A friend of mine on Facebook recently tagged on my page a short
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Some Meditations on my Trip to the Abbey of the Genesee: Quo Vadis?
I am back from my short retreat/visit to the Abbey of the Genesee where we were able to visit at length with Fr. John Gribowich, now Fr. Philip Neri.
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Heading out to the Abbey of the Genesee. And a few other odds and ends
Tonight my wife and I will be making the three hour drive to the Trappist Abbey of the Genesee near Piffard, New York. We will be spending the weekend there
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Guest Blog: Thoughts on Spiritual Abuse, Rewilding, and the Discalced Laity
What follows is a guest blog post by Dr. Philippa Martyr, who has posted on here before. This is a follow-up in a way to my last blog post
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The Bourgeois Church of Spectators and the Crisis of Morale in the Priesthood
“What does the word bourgeois actually mean? … The word designates a spiritual state, a direction of the soul, a peculiar consciousness of being.” “The bourgeois, even when he is a
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Podcast Interview with Larry Chapp and Zac Crippen on Zac’s show, “Creedal.” Topic: “The Diary of a Country Priest” by George Bernanos.
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The Destruction of the John Paul II Institute in Rome and Why it Matters
Before I proceed I want to be clear about a few things. I do not think, as some radical traditionalists claim, that Pope Francis is a heretic. Nor do I
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Vatican II and Salvation “Outside” of the Church. Part One: Three Flawed Approaches.
What follows is the first of a multi-part series of posts on the question of Vatican II and salvation outside of the visible Church. It is a long post
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The Wrath of the Lamb: A Critique and Retrieval of Gaudium et Spes
Hi to all. I want to begin by offering my thanks to all who wrote to my during my Covid illness and who offered their prayers. You have no idea
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Podcast interview with Dustin Quick and Larry Chapp: Radical Traditionalism and Pope Francis
I am finally recovered from Covid. Thank you for all of your prayers. It has been a rough couple of weeks. Linked below is my latest podcast. It is REALLY
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Notice to my readers: Covid Update
First off, many thanks to all of you who wrote to me with words of support. That meant a lot to me and gave me a shot of encouragement that
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A Notice To My Subscribers: Covid
Just a note to my readers to inform you that I have Covid and will be out of commission for a while. I am about five days into the illness
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So-Called “Synodality” and the Myth of “Hyper Papalism.”
“’Structure,’ which because of its impersonality seems immune to scandal, can become the prime seat of infection.” Hans Urs von Balthasar, (“The Anti-Roman Attitude,” Communio, Winter, 1981, p. 315)
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A Personal Post: Gratitude and Love for Father John Gribowich as He Enters the Abbey of the Genesee.
Many of you are probably not aware that our Catholic Worker farm is co-owned by Father John Gribowich. Father John is a former student of ours from back in
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David Bentley Hart’s Universalism: Part two. Some Reflections on “That All Shall Be Saved”
“Once upon a time there was a woman, and she was wicked as wicked could be, and she died. And not one good deed was left behind her. The devils
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Podcast interview with Larry Chapp and Michael Lofton on the “Reason and Theology” podcast. Topic: Vatican II and its retrieval.”
As I continue working on my next blog post on David Hart’s universalism, I link below my latest interview with Michael Lofton. It was a great conversation I think.
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David Hart’s Universalism: Part One: The Drama of Dogma
“It is the dogma that is the drama — not beautiful phrases, nor comforting sentiments, nor vague aspirations to loving-kindness and uplift, nor the promise of something nice after death
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Bishop Barron Presents: Conversations at the Crossroads interview with Dr. Larry Chapp
Linked below is the interview I taped on August 3rd at the Word on Fire studios in Santa Barbara. And for those of you still waiting for my blog post
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Podcast Interview with Larry Chapp and Cy Kellett on Catholic Answers: Focus
Linked below is the video cast of the show wherein we discuss, yet again, Traditionis Custodes. I think it is not bad except that for some strange reason I kept
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A Discalced Laity
“We can only do it for moments at first. But from those moments the new sort of life will be spreading through our system: because now we are letting Him
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