Chapp’s Schtick

Yesterday, Pope Francis 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 from a “desk” and must […]

I am now home from Rome and want to try to summarize what I had learned while there and my overall impressions about the Synod. Let me start with an anecdote. Fifteen years ago, I […]

When I was in the seminary, I studied under the late great moral theologian Germain Grisez. Despite his deeply orthodox and conservative theological orientation, he was adamantly opposed to the pre-conciliar “Index of forbidden books” […]

Wohin ist Gott? (Where is God?) — Friedrich Nietzsche Part One: Nemo dat quod non habet (You cannot give away what you do not possess) The currently raging white-hot debates in the Church are merely the […]

By now it is common knowledge among Catholics who follow social media that the firebrand and rogue traditionalist priest Fr. James Altman has formally declared, in a video posted to YouTube, that Pope Francis is […]

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 Church has ever really […]

In my youth I attended a very conservative seminary for my undergraduate formation. I was fine with that since I was a very conservative young man theologically, filled with the usual zeal that comes with […]