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4 weeks ago | 
us2.campaign-archive.com | Amy Welborn |Larry Chapp |Charles Russo |Conor Dugan
My unplanned week in Rome for a papal election By Amy Welborn on May 08, 2025 07:32 pmA week ago today, I wasn’t even thinking about going to Rome. Yes, Pope Francis had died, and yes, a conclave was coming.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
us2.campaign-archive.com | Larry Chapp |Joseph Pearce |Kathy Schiffer |George Weigel
Synodality for me, but not for D.C.: On the McElroy appointment By Larry Chapp on Jan 16, 2025 07:17 pmOne of the primary problems with the implementation of a more “synodal” Church is that there seems to be a double standard in play.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Larry Chapp |Carl Olson
Cardinal Robert McElroy addresses the congregation at Rome’s Church of San Frumenzio ai Prati Fiscali during his formal installation as its titular cardinal on April 23, 2023. (Credit: Pablo Esparza/CNA)One of the primary problems with the implementation of a more “synodal” Church is that there seems to be a double standard in play. Rome speaks a good game about wanting to develop more “collaborative” structures of governance.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Larry Chapp
America Magazine recently ran an article by Mary McAuliffe entitled “Women and LGBTQ Catholics are paying the price for church unity” (Jan. 2, 2024). The essay is completely unremarkable except insofar as it underscores and illustrates a point I made in an article last year on this site entitled “The liberal and flawed roots of tiresome synodal grievances”.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Larry Chapp |Catherine Harmon
America Magazine recently ran an article by Mary McAuliffe entitled “Women and LGBTQ Catholics are paying the price for church unity” (Jan. 2, 2024). The essay is completely unremarkable except insofar as it underscores and illustrates a point I made in an article last year on this site entitled “The liberal and flawed roots of tiresome synodal grievances”.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
catholicworldreport.com | Larry Chapp
Amy Welborn recently penned a spot-on analysis of the recent missive from Cardinal Blase Cupich informing the members of his diocese that kneeling to receive communion is no longer permitted. Cardinal Cupich does not explicitly mention “kneeling”, but almost all agree that this is the clear target of his letter. As one has come to expect from Amy Welborn, the writing is both elegant and piercing, with a jeweler’s eye for nonsense.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
ncregister.com | Larry Chapp
COMMENTARY: The ‘singular grace and privilege’ of the New Eve was God’s preparation for her fiat. Immaculate Conception. Guido Reni, 1627.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
brownpelicanla.com | Larry Chapp
Central American Bishops Call for Dec. 8 as Day of Prayer for Nicaragua, by Grace Porto36 MPs Who Voted for British Assisted Suicide Bill May Change Their Minds and Defeat It, by Susan Berry By Larry Chapp, National Catholic Register, November 27, 2024Larry Chapp received his doctorate in theology from Fordham University in 1994, with a specialization in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar. …Nov.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
ncregister.com | Larry Chapp
COMMENTARY: The Second Vatican Council document articulates the proper relationship between papal authority and the authority of bishops, individually and collectively. Pope St. Paul VI speaks during the Second Vatican Council as seen from this television screen. (photo: Jack de Nijs for Anefo / Public Domain) Commentaries November 27, 2024 Nov.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
gaudiumetspes22.com | Larry Chapp
The new Vatican document on the Bishop of Rome. My latest in The National Catholic RegsiterA synodal Catholic church must be a truly Catholic church and not an attempt at emulating the Orthodox and the Anglicans
