Defense of Vatican II
45 posts
Jesus autem tacebat: Dignitatis Humanae, the social kingship of Christ: Part Three. Catholic World Report
My latest in Catholic World Report https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/07/31/jesus-autem-tacebat/
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Dignitatis Humanae and the social kingship of Christ. Part two of three. My latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in The Catholic World Report: https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/07/17/dh-part-two/
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What Dignitatis Humanae actually teaches and what it does not teach: My latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in Catholic World Report. An analysis of Dignitatis Humanae https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2026/07/08/dignitatis-humanae-and-social-kingship-part-one/
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Vatican II at 60: My latest in The Catholic World Report
Vatican II at 60 is still of deep importance https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/12/08/vatican-ii-at-60/
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Our Red Pilled Church and Lumen Gentium 25: My Latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in Catholic World Report https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/08/01/the-red-pilled-church/
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A Ratzingerian Analysis of Gaudium et Spes: My Latest in The National Catholic Register
My latest in The National Catholic Register: https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/gaudium-et-spes-ratzinger-mystery-of-man
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Vatican II, interreligious dialogue, and Pope Leo: My latest in The Pillar
My latest in The Pillar: https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/leo-xiv-vatican-ii-and-interreligious
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On the anniversary of Nicaea: Interpreting Vatican II as a ressourcement council. My latest in The Pillar
The first of hopefully many more opinion pieces in The Pillar. Unfortunately, it is behind a pay wall since Pillar subscriptions are not free..... https://www.pillarcatholic.com/p/ecumenical-
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My review of Bishop Athanasius Schneider's new book "Flee from Heresy" in Catholic World Report
I wanted to like the latest book by Bishop Athanasius Schneider but it is a deeply flawed text https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2025/02/22/flee-from-heresy-is-flawed-
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The post-conciliar hermeneutics of rupture lives on in many synodal enthusiasts: My latest in Catholic World Report
My latest in Catholic World Report is a reflection on how the post-conciliar hermeneutics of rupture never really went away. And that it is alive and well with many
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The ideological falsification of Vatican II's concept of the People of God. My latest in Catholic World Report
I have written on this before, but the false understanding of the People of God motif continues to manifest itself. https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/08/08/synodality-and-the-
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Vatican II Part Three: More on Dei Verbum with Rodney Howsare and Larry Chapp
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Larry Chapp and Rodney Howsare on Vatican II: Part Two: Dei Verbum
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My latest in Catholic World Report: A review of Bishop Schneider's "Credo: Compendium of the Catholic Faith"
A critical review of Bishop Schneider's "Catechism": https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2023/12/17/credo-is-a-weaponized-response-to-vatican-ii-and-the-ccc/
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A new podcast series with Larry Chapp and Rodney Howsare on the documents of Vatican II: Part one: The opening speech of Pope John
Podbean podcast audio only:
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Vatican II, "The People of God", and current misuses of that term. My latest in the Register
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/what-does-vatican-ii-mean-by-the-people-of-god
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Who controls the narrative of modern Catholicism? My latest in Catholic World Report
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2023/05/18/the-progressive-revolutions-continued-control-of-the-ecclesial-narrative/
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My dialogue with Adam Lucas on Vatican II
Recently I wrote an essay in Catholic World Report that was critical of an essay written by Adam Lucas on Vatican II that appeared in the online version of Crisis
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My Latest in Catholic World Report: A response to Adam Lucas on Vatican II and an endorsement of George Weigel's book
My latest in CWR wherein I respond to an unbelievably shallow essay in Crisis online about the so-called "irrelevance" of Vatican II to today's young
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Vatican II Sixty Years Later: My Latest in Catholic World Report
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/2022/10/15/vatican-ii-five-views-sixty-years-on/
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The Universal Call to Holiness and the Laity: My Latest in the Register
https://www.ncregister.com/commentaries/what-does-the-universal-call-to-holiness-look-like-today
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Why the "Average Catholic" Should Still Care About Vatican II: My Essay in Our Sunday Visitor
Linked below is an article of mine on Vatican II that was just published in Our Sunday Visitor. https://www.osvnews.com/2022/10/07/60-years-after-the-opening-
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A Lecture in Baltimore at the National Shrine of the Basilica of the Assumption
Dorothy Day, Vatican II and the Universal Call to Holiness I want to thank the organizers of this event, most especially Father Brendan Fitzgerald, for inviting me to speak to
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Latest in Catholic World Report: The False Narrative of the "Interrupted Council".
Linked below is my latest essay in Catholic World Report. It is part I of a new series of essays on Vatican II and its retrieval by Saint Pope John
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