Crisis in the Church
101 posts
A brief analysis of the central problem with the SSPX and why schism was inevitable: My latest in First Things
My latest in First Things https://firstthings.com/schism-by-design/
Larry Chapp
Archbishop Paglia and his radical program for changing moral theology: My latest in The National Catholic Register
My latest in The National Catholic Register https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/chapp-paglia-moral-theology-paradigm-shift
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Ecclesial Exhaustion and the False Narrative of "Crisis": My Latest in The National Catholic Register
My latest in The National Catholic Register https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/chapp-church-situation-sspx
Larry Chapp
The German Challenge to Pope Leo: My latest in First Things
my latest in First Things https://firstthings.com/the-german-gambit/
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Pope Leo, the Germans, and the SSPX: My latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in The Catholic World Report https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/05/13/on-the-germans-the-sspx-and-pope-leo/
Larry Chapp
The SSPX Crisis: My Latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in Catholic World Report https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/04/28/the-sspx-again/
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Gratitude for the gift of being Catholic: My experience in an Ordinariate parish
My latest in Catholic World Report https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/04/08/in-gratitude-for-the-ordinariate/
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The SSPX's rupture with tradition: My latest in The National Catholic Register
My latest in The National Catholic Register: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/chapp-sspx-rupture
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Bye Bye SSPX: My Latest in First Things
My latest in First Things: https://firstthings.com/goodbye-sspx/
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The cosplaying traditionalism of the SSPX
SSPX: Cosplaying Traditionalists It is being reported that the radical traditionalist community known as the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is planning on going ahead this summer with new
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Ratzinger vs Kasper: an old debate more important now than ever. My latest in Catholic World Report
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/01/17/ratzinger-and-kasper/
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Christ at the Center: How Tradition Anchors the Development of Doctrine. My latest in The National Catholic Register
My latest in The National Catholic Register. Christ is soon here! Happy end of Advent and Merry Christmas to all! https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/chapp-christ-at-the-center
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Notre Dame's "refreshed" staff values statement is devoid of any mention of Catholicism: My latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in Catholic World Report https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/11/20/some-reflections-and-questions-about-notre-dames-new-staff-values/
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The spurious attacks on Bishop Barron from Michael Sean Winters. A response. My latest in Catholic World Report
After a while, these attacks on Bishop Barron from Michael Sean Winters are just juvenile and tiresome. But since people actually read his scribblings I think it is still important
Larry Chapp
Women's ordination (yet again): My latest in The National Catholic Register
My latest in The National Catholic Register https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/chapp-womens-ordination
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The Dictatorship of Relativism: My latest in The Catholic World Report
My latest: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/09/10/on-the-urgent-need-to-recognize-and-reject-religious-relativism/
Larry Chapp
Ecclesial Transparency and Traditionis Custodes: My latest in the What We Need Now substack
My latest in the What We Need Now substack of Jayd Henricks https://whatweneednow.substack.com/p/ecclesial-transparency-liturgical
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The deceptions of Fr. James Martin and the Church's dangerous double standard: My latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in The Catholic World Report. I wrote this article after getting requests from several different people to take on this topic. https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/07/10/
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Another set of ludicrous attacks on Bishop Robert Barron: My latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in CWR. And just for the record, no I am not on the payroll of Word on Fire! But Bishop Barron is a friend of mine and someone
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My second "Letter from Rome" in First Things: Controlling the narrative
As with all of these "letters from Rome" you must scroll down to get to my essay https://firstthings.com/letters-from-rome-2025-the-papal-interregnum-no-
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Letters from Rome: My first essay in First Things
Linked is the first installment of a new series of reflections I will be offering at First Things while I am in Rome. As with my columns in First Things
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The papacy of Pope Francis: My latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in Catholic World Report which is a short essay on the papacy of Pope Francis. It is the first of several articles in a symposium on Pope Franics
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True and False "Accompaniment" and Reading "the signs of the times". My latest in the "What We Need Now" substack. With a response from Andrew Gniadek
My latest in the "What We Need Now" substack of Jayd Henricks: https://whatweneednow.substack.com/p/true-pastoral-accompaniment-requires And here is the response to this
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Three articles of mine in Catholic World Report over the past two years on the topic of Cardinal McElroy.
With the announcement of the appointment of Cardinal McElroy to Washington DC many have emailed me asking for my opinion on the mattter. Therefore, I decided to go ahead and
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