The essence of all sin therefore is not its transgressive violation of law, but its reality as a narcotic that never allows us to achieve a full awareness of the seriousness of things.

—Larry Chapp

from his book, Confession of a Catholic Worker

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LIVE RADICALLY

For Larry Chapp, crisis is always the norm of Christian existence. In a cold, dying world choked by greed, the Gospel calls for radical love and radical living according to the Sermon on the Mount. Using the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Peter Maurin, and Dorothy Day, Chapp argues that the real remedy to the disease of sin is not niceness, not political liberation, not fancy liturgical dress, not technical rigor, but a free decision to live totally and joyfully in Jesus Christ, without compromise.

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