I don't understand. You lament the loss of snow days and summers off from school, which are times when children could be studying, and then in the next segment, you talk about that we are not made for comfort, but great things. You complain that the Church has dialed back the required fasts, and then advocate for more leisure time for kids! The internet has provided us the means to do great things and teach kids how to use it for great things as well. I am all for the digitalization of libraries. It was never the books themselves that were needed, but the information in them. In reality, we need fewer books, and more study of the sources of wisdom, which are all available online.

Mom rules domestically, dad rules in foreign policy

From a proud non-owner of a smart phone. Good discussion.

Broken families mean Anxiety... Universally change means Anxiety

1:15:52 Which French thinker ?

Just a humble suggestion..Dr.Chapp..how about inviting Dr.Peter Kwasniewski and discuss the Latin Mass....his talks on youtube are superb and are worth listening to.

I find the scriptures plainly say all will make it in the end however it may be extremely, severely, unfathomably painful. If God Is love and his mercy endures forever and the smoke of the torment pleases God I have to think that pleases him because he knows what it leads to. How could it be God loves us, was willing to die for us, then the second you’re dead he’s just rejoicing enjoying the smell of your roasting undying flesh? The translation issues are also a big deal. I also find it interesting when reading the verses about better to pluck your eye out and chop off your hand is taught to be metaphorical but then at the end of the verse we’re taught by the same pastors and teachers to take the unquenchable fire and undying worms as very very literal. I’m just a guy. Idk anything.

Ross Douthat's TO CHANGE THE CHURCH (2018) is a revelation of the Francis' methods of change and the consequences. In the case of the Jesuit province over which he ruled the results included division, bankruptcy, and ill will.

The abortion issue is two fold, it’s abortion but it’s also promiscuity. Those two issues go hand and hand. It’s through promiscuous sex that abortion becomes a “sacrament “. Which sex has also become, modernist sacrament.

i am cynical and completely dismissive of this ideological synodal one sided nonsense.

maybe a listening 101 and some books on listening would be better than this synodal nonsense.

The answer may be to pick up the cross, and ignore those that call us names and attempt to cancel. Simply stating , nope no more of this. Look at the world it’s created. And yes, that goes for the priests and bishops too.

Thank you for the discussion!

Pius X, not Pius IX

Was Benedict XVI A Real Pope? kzbin.info/www/bejne/i33ThJdsoMmagJI

We need the Theoanthropocosmic spirituality of New Creation.

What? Balthasar was a closet Universalist? I swear you say otherwise, and criticize Ralph Martin for uncharitably claiming so...

It struck me many times while reading Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton, that he had intuited many of the same things that Ian Mcgilchrist has arrvied at through scientific inquiry. I was pleasantly surprised to see Ian directly quote Chesterton in his latest book!

D.C. Schindler & Ian Mcgilchrist were hosted in conversation on a small KZbin channel called The Meaning Code, if anyone is interested. For myself, that was a meeting of two very formative figures, which went exceedingly well.

I love how frequently Dr Deane refers to John Milbank. When will his favorite reference be invited on to Gaudium et Spes 22?? 👀

1. Good Catholic art, particularly film and music, will solve a lot of problems, I think. It will create that right-brained "big picture". But it also has to start where people are at and then draw them in from there. 2. I typically attend the Latin Mass, but have no problems attending a well-said Novus Ordo, and have attended the Ukranian-Byzantine Rite a couple of times. My problem is not with the LM itself, but rather with people who hijack it to serve their insecure egotistic need for superiority and play act like they are from the Middle Ages. I know many wonderful people who attend the Latin Mass, and also some neo-psychotic people who attend it. At the end of the day, they're all flawed human beings. Novus Ordo people, on the other hand, often seem to have a big problem with worldliness (the majority, not the small percentage who attend all the conferences and listen to Catholic radio regularly). 3. I, too, wanted to think the best of Pope Francis. I thought he wanted to reach out to the lost, something that many people didn't seem to want to do. Now, I'm sure he wants to *become* one of the lost...

Why is there zero sense of urgency in teaching parishioners by parish staff? Parishes need revival

Terrific. Prof. Hahn cited, among many other things, Cardinal Ratzinger's 1988 lecture in New York critiquing modern biblical hermeneutics. I was present at that lecture, and it was a key moment of my journey of faith. After taking New Testament from Elaine Pagels, I really needed and appreciated his breadth and cogency.

Great stuff! The whole unfortunate trend of taking apart Scripture critically as though it were merely a human document, using merely human-derived intellectual tools, can't die soon enough. It has caused much harm to the faith. Here's to encouraging a deep and profound theology that is truly Incarnational, using both human and divine principles of reason and faith, harmoniously together! (You know, kind of like Jesus really was and is both human and divine; kind of like the human person truly can receive divine life within our souls and that this can heal and transform not only our moral life but also enhance, heal, and transform our intellectual life just as profoundly.)

We have begun to forget JP II and his greatness. I recently rediscovered the audiobook of Weigel's biography "Witness to Hope" and in its updated and abridged form, Weigel begins to point out the really important, somewhat mystical aspects of JP II which I missed reading the first time around. As Larry Chapp and Scott Hahn point out, both JP II and Benedict have left us a mountain of very important things, and their work will be mined for gems for the next hundred years. I suspect we are at the point where we begin to re discover both these men. They are going to have a huge impact on future seminarians, bishops and priests in the next 20 years or so, and only then will their message work its way out to ordinary people.

Darn Tough socks are made in Vermont 😺

It's so funny how different we can be on the pope, I bowing to Papal authority more, but that on ecology we can be so aligned. I guess because I built my books on Ivan Illich and Wendel Berry and Vandana Shiva and not on a technocratic and impotent approach to resisting these anthropogenic changes.

Great video Doctors Hahn and Chapp! Can't agree enough, let 1000 flowers bloom and see where the spirit takes us. Even in the past decade the internet hasn't done complete harm to unity, I've seen a lot if cross cultural enrichment with our Eastern brothers and sisters with the laity recovering our own expression of theosis (deification). I suppose I'm in the minority of converts from my generation (late millennial/early gen z) as the internet was not the catalyst for my conversion but Catholic friends and their strong parish community helping me out of my hedonistic agnosticism and into Christ's Church. I think that's why I could never swallow the full blown radtrad pill. A wonderful standard diocesan parish gave a punk like myself a spiritual lifeboat amidst a sinful sea.

Gentlemen, forgive my crassness: but, surely it is obvious that - when speaking of the "new covenant" (Lk 22:20) - Jesus of Nazareth could not have been speaking of texts, but of his actions; because no, specifically Christian, texts had been written at the time the author of Luke is describing. The Primitive (Hebrew) Church was using the Tanakh for its 'scriptures'. I am only a retired Nurse; but I did read Theology at University, way back in the 1970s; and one of my heroes was the late Dean of York, Dr Alan Richardson. In 'A DICTIONARY OF CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY' which Dr Richardson edited, is an excellent article on the 'Doctrine of Holy Scripture' in the Anglican tradition. Two short quotations stand out: ".....we should carefully notice that it is only in a secondary or derivative sense that the Bible is the word of God. God's word in the primary and biblical sense is Christ himself:; the Bible make be spoken of as God's word only because it is the means by which the kingdom of God in Christ has been transmitted to us." However, given the way far too many churchgoers today 'weaponise' the scriptures against 'the other', Dr Richardson's second little section is cautionary. "The old pre-Enlightenment view of the Bible as having been divinely inspired and guaranteed is no longer tenable and is a hindrance to the prop[er understanding of the character of revelation as actually having been given in real history." I ceased attending the Eucharist around fifty years ago (I am 72); but it is my love of Christology (and especially ther studies of Jewish scholars such as Vermes, Fredriksen, and Boyarin) which has helped me, more than any Eucharist, to come to know and love Jesus of Nazareth, "the great Outsider" (Richard Holloway).

The collab I’ve been hoping for for a long time!

When one talks about "infrastructure" (for electric vehicles), we must always include in the discussion the question: How will we produce/generate the huge amounts of additional electricity that will be needed to power these EVs? While necessary, merely multiplying charging stations is not enough. I see no other viable solution to this problem than nuclear power.

Larry Chapp and Scott Hahn...talking about Pope Benedict XVI, what a treat!

What a delightful interview!... I kept hearing myself say again and again, "I have to order this book!"... I managed to make it through by hitting the "Place Your Order" button only once... My wife is going to kill me. BTW: Scott and Kimberly Hahn were our "guides" during our pilgrimage to Rome, Assisi, Orvieto, etc., etc., back in March... It was wonderful!

I like listening to this program . A father who keeps his promises. God's covenant love in scripture changed my whole look at the catholic church as a catholic going through the motions and knowing the difference with the eucharistic

❤This interview/discussion was absolute gold! I can't thank you enough for sharing this with us! I was starving for this depth on all these topics and how they they are interwoven from you and Scott Hahn!

Another fantastic interview!

Ditto

Indeed if the Vatican dumbs down the catholic faith anymore there is no hope the orthodox even will bother having anything to do with the Patriarch of the west at all. Lord have mercy!

Cherries dont produce, might you need a polinator tree?

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Thank you, Dr. Chapp I absolutely love Scott Hahn

Good Christian art, particularly film and music, will solve the Babylonian captivity of the imagination. Quite frankly, apologetics and politics can do nothing without the imagination.

A brilliant lecture: "Nietzsche was WRONG about Christianity: René Girard" (length 1:35:03). Here is a description: Among Nietzsche's critics, René Girard is perhaps unique. Girard's understanding of human civilization and the origins of human culture is that it is based on ritual, collective violence against a scapegoated individual - and he argues that Nietzsche is one of the only thinkers hitherto who understood this. Nietzsche's famous formula - Dionysus versus the Crucified - is the title of Girard's critical essay on Nietzsche. He does not quibble with Nietzsche's framing of the situation, but rather with Nietzsche's conclusions. While Nietzsche takes up for the side of Dionysus, Girard stands on the side of the Crucified, arguing that Nietzsche was fundamentally wrong to lament the ascendance of Christianity and to yearn for a return to the Dionysian. In the course of Nietzsche's defense of Dionysus, he put forward moral theories that were "untenable", and become increasingly "inhuman". Among the many commenters of Nietzsche, both disciples and critics, it is rare to find a figure like Girard, who recognizes Nietzsche's brilliance, but totally condemns his legacy. Join me today to learn about the life of Rene Girard, his theories of mimetic desire and scapegoating, and the impassioned case he puts forward for The Crucified. kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6TSdJykp6dgZsksi=A-XLSbMWq7z0iuCe (length 1:35:03)

Irish, good common sense. Tanks to all tree of ya!!!

Really enjoyed the dialog especially the important question! How to get to a post Liberal position and smash stereotypes! There is hope however and change is coming with courageous men and women! Thank you! Loved it! 1

Fascinating!! Big thanks to all three of you. We all know down deep the answer to this question, but, as Larry put it, if we go there we will be slapped with the most unholy labels and forever canceled. Here is the problem in my view. Once someone actually comes out and says it, the idea will resonate powerfully and the movement will start. Do we say as we see it, from a Catholic perspective, or do we let someone else begin the conversation. As they say, "No risk it no biscuit"?

Pope Francis might be one of the worst leaders alive today. What has he achieved?

This is why I’m not catholic. The first half of your conversation makes the church seem appealing on a metaphysical large scale level. Like it has something to offer that is transcendental. But then when I see evil men like rupnik zanchetta and mcareick and maciel rise to the top I’m reminded why I am glad I left. The Soviet Union had a structure where evil men like Beria and Stalin could rise up. How is the Curia or Vatican different?

I was liking this until your grotesque misjudgment of Trump, especially when you made no comment about the utterly corrupt Biden family. Even the Dems are starting to see the corruption. It is not that Trump deserves no criticism, but you are clearly blindly biased. Stopped listening. I cannot trust what you say.