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Wojtyła & Vatican II
John Paul II's teaching and focus on proper implementation of the Council seems to have been lost
By John M. Grondelski | May 18th 2026 12:13 PMToday is Karol Wojtyła’s/St. John Paul II’s 126th birthday. He was born on Tuesday, May 18, 1920. It is hard to believe that, after a 26-year pontificate supplemented by eight of the Ratzinger pontificate, the teaching and focus of the Wojtyła papacy as a lens to view the proper implementation…
READ FULL BLOG POSTInverted Pneumatology?
Many Western European clerics seem to think the Spirit moves mostly outside the Church
By John M. Grondelski | October 21st 2025 12:21 PMPneumatology is that branch of theology dealing with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is understood as indwelling in the Church and keeping her from error. The Church’s inerrancy is neither political nor historical; she can and has made mistakes in those areas. The Church’s inerrancy is related to her…
READ FULL BLOG POSTGod, Caesar, and Dividing the Renderings Today
What if the people running institutions that presuppose a Supreme Being don’t presuppose Him?
By John M. Grondelski | October 24th 2023 1:53 PMThe November issue of Commentary, a monthly magazine of conservative Jewish thought, features a great essay, “Psalms They Have, But They Know Not.” Rabbi Meir Soloveichik ponders American Biblical ignorance, especially among its “educated,” and its implications. The immediate impetus for his article was an incident last summer on the…
READ FULL BLOG POSTHow the Church Used to Welcome People
The early Church confidently proclaimed its teaching and offered it to inquirers to take or leave
By John M. Grondelski | April 19th 2023 12:18 PMThe Octave Day of Easter—the Sunday following Easter—has gone by several names, including Divine Mercy Sunday and the Second Sunday of Easter. One of its oldest names is Dominica in albis, “Sunday in white,” because this was the day that those newly baptized at the Easter Vigil historically took off…
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