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by bcadmin | Nov 17, 2022 | Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, Hans Küng, Michael Sean Winters, National Catholic Reporter, News, Progressive Catholics, Richard McBrien, St. John Paul II | 0 |
The folks over at the National Catholic Reporter must think we have poor memories or no memory at all. For decades, the Reporter positioned itself as the loyal opposition to what it viewed as an […]
Read MoreWhile in Rome some years back, I was wandering about aimlessly somewhere in Trastevere and I stumbled into a church (I don’t remember which one) and saw the flickering of light at a votive candle […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 16, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, First Things, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Henri de Lubac, Joseph Ratzinger, Matthew Levering, News, progressivism, R.R. Reno, ressourcement, second vatican countil, Thomism, traditionalism | 0 |
Everybody I know seems to be writing something on Vatican II these days and I began feeling a bit left out of the fun. So, I thought I would jump into the mosh pit of […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 26, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, collegiality, Columns, Communio, ecclesiology, Features, Germany, News, Papacy, Second Vatican Council, synodality | 0 |
Debates and controversies over matters of doctrinal development never happen in a vacuum or in the abstract. Which is why it is always critical to assess both the intellectual milieu in which such debates take […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 6, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Communio, Features, Lumen Gentium, News, People of God, Pope Francis, ressourcement, Second Vatican Council, St. Pope John Paul II | 0 |
“The real problem with popes,” a friend once said to me, “is that they die.” What he meant was that no matter how consequential a particular papacy might be, it is still at the mercy […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, Gospels, Henri de Lubac, holiness, Jesus Christ, Morality, News, Saints, The Church: Paradox and Mystery | 0 |
Having reviewed the republication of Henri de Lubac’s book The Church: Paradox and Mystery, I had to accept that space constraints prevented me from discussing at more length a part of the text that moved […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 1, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Dei Verbum, Divine Revelation, ecclesiology, Features, Henri de Lubac, Jesus Christ, nature and grace, News, ressourcement, The Church | 0 |
A few months ago, I interviewed the patristics scholar, Dr. Lewis Ayres. Dr. Ayres is understandably very favorably disposed towards the school of modern theology that has come to be known as “ressourcement” theology. However, […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 14, 2022 | Amoris Laetitia, Bernard Häring, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, Humanae Vitae, moral theology, News, Pope Francis, Saint John Paul II, Saint Paul VI, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
Pedro Gabriel has penned a response to my most recent CWR article, which focused on the moral theology of Pope Francis. Gabriel’s essay is full of the kind of sophistry one has come to expect […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 28, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Features, News, Papacy, Pope Francis, restorationists, Theology, Traditionalists, Vatican II | 0 |
My recent CWR column on Pope Francis’s comments about the worrisome rise of what he called “the restorers” in the American Church appears to have kicked up some dust and not a little misunderstanding. Many […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2022 | Benedict XVI, Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, Jesuits, John Paul II, La Civiltà Cattolica, News, Pope Francis, progressive Catholcism, rad trads, ressourcement, Vatican II | 0 |
Much ink has been spilled on the recent comments by the Holy Father concerning his assertion that the Second Vatican Council has been “gagged” by “restorationists”. Pope Francis specifically mentioned the United States as home […]
Read MoreBy now it part of an old news cycle that Bishop McElroy is to be made a Cardinal. And the reactions to the news, as might be expected, reflect antecedent theological commitments. In short, theological […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 19, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Crisis, damnation, Features, Gospels, Heaven, Hell, Jesus Christ, judgment, News | 0 |
Hell is often depicted in Christian art as a place of unspeakable physical torments where the unrepentant sinner receives his or her just punishments for various moral perfidies and offenses against the law of God. […]
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