Dr. Larry Chapp and Dr. David Deane

“Everyone knows there is a “crisis” in the Catholic Church and in the world around us. Some say it is capitalism gone wild. Others say it is the decay of tradition, family, and objective truth. Still others say it is the rise of radical, reactionary conservatism. Though all may not agree on the nature of the crisis, who doesn’t agree that there is one, and who isn’t worried? For Larry Chapp, crisis is always the norm of Christian existence.” And, as Dr. Deane shows, Nietzsche has a way of pulling the blinders off of those who would virtue-signal their way to dubious ends. Deane urges Catholics to accept the fact that simple solutions are not to be found apart from the traditional Christic Way. And St. Paul, he says, points to that way.

Dr. David Deane is an Associate Professor of Theology at the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax. He received his doctorate from Trinity College, University of Dublin. 

Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology.  He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania.  In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania.  Dr. Chapp received his doctorate from Fordham University in 1994 with a specialization in the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar.  He is the author of The Confessions of