The Narthex
Random Ruminations #33
More Thoughts on “Christian Ownership Maximalism”... When Will They Ever Learn?... more
By John M. Grondelski | December 12th 2025 1:39 PMAnother Example of Inverted Pneumatology I’ve criticized a distorted theology of the Holy Spirit I’ve called “inverted pneumatology,” which pretends that today the Holy Spirit primarily speaks not to the world from the Church but rather teaches the Church from a secularized world. Writing in the National Catholic Reporter (I…
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Freedom Versus Self-Will... Sr. Theresa Kane, RIP... Fr. Reese on Deacons... September Nature...
By John M. Grondelski | September 2nd 2024 11:39 AMFreedom Versus Self-Will Continuing my way through Roman Brandstaetter's superb literary corpus, I ran into a collection of short meditations he penned, inspired by his positive encounter with Franciscanism. He spoke of a writer, sitting at his desk, who noticed a bee walking along his window pane. Caringly, he opened…
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