The Brian Tyrell and Larry Chapp Skirmish of 2023. Who Speaks for the Catholic Worker Today?

Note: I am hoping to find a reply to Brian Tyrell’s piece which follows. In the meantime Larry Chapp’s important treatment is linked below. SH. By Brian Tyrell In 1978, I was an associate editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper when a review copy of a new book, Confessions of a Catholic Worker by Michael… Read More The Brian Tyrell and Larry Chapp Skirmish of 2023. Who Speaks for the Catholic Worker Today?

October 7, 2026October 9, 2026 SDH

A Note on Hell

Dr. Larry Chapp seems to express a kind of anxiety or apprehension in this video discussion. The anxiety revolves around the obvious problem of the traditional magisterium as he comes “out of the closet” and reveals himself to be an eschatological “universalist” wherein, in the end, we can all hope that Scripture and Tradition will… Read More A Note on Hell

August 6, 2026September 20, 2026 SDH

Dorothy Day and Taxes in a Nuclear Age

Note: To tell you the truth I don’t think much of the “Catholic Worker Movement” these days. Even Dorothy Day herself was becoming somewhat discouraged by the naivete and moral incoherence of not a few of her admirers near the end of her life. Her own pain and understanding of the Gospel had made her… Read More Dorothy Day and Taxes in a Nuclear Age

January 14, 2024January 28, 2024 SDH

Confessions of a Catholic Worker by Larry Chapp

“This is not a book “about” Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, or the Catholic Worker movement in general. This is a book inspired by them and formed within the thought-world that they have created within me. But to understand why it is that these particular thinkers have had such an influence upon… Read More Confessions of a Catholic Worker by Larry Chapp

July 26, 2022January 28, 2024 SDH

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The Brian Tyrell and Larry Chapp Skirmish of 2023. Who Speaks for the Catholic Worker Today?

A Note on Hell

Dorothy Day and Taxes in a Nuclear Age

Confessions of a Catholic Worker by Larry Chapp