The Modernist Desecration of Human Dignity
Summary: The National Catholic Register publishes a commentary by Larry Chapp that reduces Catholic anthropology to a naturalistic, sentimental humanism. Using a personal caregiving narrative, Chapp presents a theology of “dignity” rooted solely in human fragility and mutual dependence, utterly devoid of supernatural grace, sacramental life, or the hierarchical mission of the Church. The article exemplifies the post-conciliar “abomination of desolation” (Matt. 24:15) where even the gravest corporal works of mercy are stripped of their salvific context and reframed as mere humanist solidarity. The complete silence on God’s law, the state of grace, and the redemptive value of suffering in union with Christ exposes the theological bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s “spirituality.”




