Columnist: Larry Chapp
In Defense of Moral Agency and the Necessary Pursuit of Holiness
The biblical narrative of redemption is rendered pointless and ultimately incomprehensible in a culture that has been bleached of a real sense of the importance of moral agency—the ability to ...
Ratzinger v. Kasper: Why The Debate Matters Even More Today
What is at stake is the very constitution of the Church as a divinely instituted reality. December 31, 2025, marked the third anniversary of the death of Pope Benedict XVI ...
Why Christ Won’t Let His Church Ordain Women
The international Catholic news weekly The Tablet thought the appointment of the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican Church presented a ripe opportunity for the Catholic Church to ...
The Urgent Need to Recognize and Reject Religious Relativism
Within various forms of religious relativism, there is a not-so-hidden soft totalitarianism that is swiftly moving into “harder” versions with devastating real-life consequences for anyone who dares to openly resist ...
The Red-Pilled Church
Religious submission of mind and will also applies to the hierarchy, and part of the submission must be the full acceptance of obedience to the moral and spiritual demands of ...
Synodality For Me, But Not For D.C.: On The McElroy Appointment
This pontificate talks big about synodality and collaboration and listening but then does whatever it wants in largely old-fashioned, non-synodal, autocratic ways. One of the primary problems with the implementation ...
WATCH: Cardinal Cupich Bans Kneeling Before Jesus!
Mark Lambert and Larry Chap discuss Cardinal Cupich's recent directives regarding the reception of communion, particularly his discouragement of kneeling. They explore the implications of this stance within the context ...
Larry Chapp’s Synod Diary #5
Today’s diary entry is a bit of a grab bag of topics: all of which, it seems to me, are related on a foundational level. And their connection is a ...
The Liberal and Flawed Roots of the Tiresome Synodal Grievances
One of the things I have learned in my 65 years of being a Catholic is that the meaning of the term “Church reform” in the post-Vatican II era is ...
Rome “Synodals” While The World Burns
In March 2013, Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio gave a short speech to the assembled Cardinals before the conclave wherein he described his vision for a Church that was far less “self-referential” ...
Synodality and the Continued and Deceptive use of “People of God”
Johathan Liedl, a reporter with The National Catholic Register, has written a very important article on one of the more influential theologians of the upcoming Synod on synodality in October ...
‘Traditionis Custodes’ Has Generated Division, Not Unity
Three years after the promulgation of the motu proprio Traditionis Custodes, imposing severe restrictions on the celebration of the Mass in Latin, controversy over the use of the old Latin ...
True and False Democracy in the Catholic Church
One of the assumptions that seems to animate so many of the conversations surrounding a more synodal Church is that a more “democratized” Catholic Church is by definition a better ...
Cardinal McElroy, Homosexuality, and the Repudiation of Doctrine
The entire LGBTQ movement is a counter religion, which accounts for why it is held with a deep religious fervor and why it is always accompanied by a deep loathing ...
The Great Bergoglio Train Wreck
The moral teaching of the Church, especially on matters sexual, is undercut directly in Fiducia Supplicans, and that is not an accident. The latest document from the Dicastery for the ...
Three Theologians on the Pope’s ‘Paradigm’ Shift in Theology
What’s It Really About? Larry Chapp Pope Francis has released a new “Motu Proprio” about how to do theology in the modern context, Ad theologiam promovendam, which makes the case ...
New Papal Document Reads Like a Conclusion in Search of an Argument
Pope Francis has released a “Motu Proprio” about how to do theology in the modern context. Titled Ad theologiam promovendam, it makes the case that theology must no longer be ...
Listening to the Holy Spirit or the Spirit of the Age?
There has been a lot of talk at the Synod on Synodality about listening to the Holy Spirit to see where it is that the Spirit wants to guide the ...
The False Front is Showing on this Potemkin Synod
The Synod on Synodality is just around the corner in October and already one can feel the excitement building among rank-and-file Catholics for what promises to be the first time ...
The Orwellian Synod
Even though there are new elements in the neo-progressivism of today, that it is a recurrence of the older narrative but now decked-out in the verbiage of “discernment”, “accompaniment”, “inclusion”, ...
Father Martin’s ‘Outreach’ Ministry to ‘LGBT’ Catholics Wants to Burn the Bridge to Authentic Salvation
Jesuit Father James Martin has started a new online resource for “LGBTQ” Catholics called “Outreach” that is an enterprise associated with America Media, whose magazine America is the flagship publication ...
