Archbishop Charles Chaput
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Baldisseri reproves Chaput, says abuse crisis won’t stop synod success
The secretary general of an upcoming synod of bishops said Monday he thinks the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church... Read more
Chaput: Youth synod depends on faith, not sentimentality
In an op-ed column published Saturday, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia has restated his concerns about the upcoming synod of... Read more
Archbishop Chaput shares theological critique of youth synod prep document
Archbishop Charles Chaput offered Friday on First Things a critique by a theologian of the working document for the upcoming... Read more
Archbishop Chaput: When we forget faith, we forget our humanity
When man tries to cling to reason and separate himself from faith, he forgets who he is and loses his... Read more
Anger over migrant family separation 'warranted', Archbishop Chaput says
In his latest column, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia called out the Trump administration and Congress for putting families in... Read more
Chaput asks Notre Dame student for youth synod advice
Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput turned over his weekly Catholic Philly column to a University of Notre Dame student, who hopes... Read more
Foreign bishops respond to German intercommunion proposal
Several bishops from outside Germany have critiqued a proposal to allow Protestant spouses of Catholics to receive communion in German... Read more
Archbishop Chaput thinks you should read this young Catholic's letter
In a time of cultural confusion and challenge, youth need clarity and guidance from the Church – and failure to... Read more
Archbishop Chaput: Paul VI would not be surprised by the #MeToo movement
“The #MeToo movement, emotional wreckage, sexual disease and date rape are the realities we’ve inherited from the sexual revolution. Paul... Read more
At Villanova, Archbishop Chaput talks faith and society
Nation-wide violence. School shootings. Political tensions. Drugs. Unemployment. Hunger. Read more
Archbishop Chaput: Catholics need faith and reason, not a new paradigm
St. John Paul II’s encyclical Fides et ratio will mark its 20th anniversary this year, on Sept. 14. Archbishop Charles... Read more
Archbishop Chaput: blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples is not permitted
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia has penned a letter to priests and deacons in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, addressing... Read more
We must become 'new men,' Archbishop Chaput says
At the Catholic Men’s Fellowship Conference, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Philadelphia challenged more than 1,300 men to remember how masculinity... Read more
O’Malley and Chaput make a Super Bowl wager
On Sunday, the New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles will go head-to-head in Super Bowl LII, facing off to claim... Read more
Archbishop Chaput: Civilta Cattolica got American Christianity wrong
A prominent Catholic journal’s critique of American religion and politics got quite a bit wrong, Philadelphia’s Archbishop Charles J. Chaput... Read more
A new path for Philadelphia’s historic seminary?
Amid plans for the future of the Philadelphia archdiocese’s historic Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, the seminary and Neumann University have... Read more
Remembering two anniversaries
We mark two forgotten anniversaries in 2017. Read more
