Posted on 07/21/2015 3:54:04 AM PDT by JPX2011
ROME – This morning, Pope Francis formally announced Father Robert Barron's appointment as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Bishop-Elect Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, host of the award-winning CATHOLICISM film series, and since 2012 has served as the Rector/President of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary outside of Chicago, IL.
His website, WordOnFire.org, reaches millions of people each year. His regular YouTube videos have been viewed over 13 million times. Next to Pope Francis, he is the most-followed Catholic leader on social media.
(Excerpt) Read more at wordonfire.org ...
I can wait. :)
What a good educator he is.
Archbishop Gomez did become a U. S. citizen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I am sure he is encouraging others to do it the right way too. End of conversation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%c3%a9_Horacio_G%c3%b3mez#Early_life_and_education.
[8] He became a U.S. citizen in 1995.[3]
From an email.
Pope Francis Appoints Fr. Robert Barron Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles
ROME - This morning, Pope Francis formally announced Father Robert Barron’s appointment as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
Bishop-Elect Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, host of the award-winning CATHOLICISM film series, and since 2012 has served as the Rector/President of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary outside of Chicago, IL.
His website, WordOnFire.org, reaches millions of people each year. His regular YouTube videos have been viewed over 13 million times. Next to Pope Francis, he is the most-followed Catholic leader on social media.
Bishop-Elect Barron’s statement is below:
It was with enormous surprise that I received word of my appointment as auxiliary bishop of Los Angeles, but it is with a humble and joyful heart that I accept it. The Church of Los Angeles - the most populous in the United States-is energetic, diverse, and creative. Over the years, I’ve visited many times, including multiple trips to the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress in Anaheim; most recently, I was in the Archdiocese for a lecture at Thomas Aquinas College. So though I can’t claim to know it well, I have been able to taste and see some of its richness.
The late Francis Cardinal George - the spiritual grandfather of Word on Fire - was a mentor and friend to me. The mission closest to his heart was the evangelization of the culture, bringing Christ to the arenas of media, politics, law, education, the arts, etc. I can’t think of a more exciting field for this sort of work than Los Angeles, which is certainly one of the great cultural centers of our time.
Many might be wondering what this means for the important work of Word on Fire. The short answer is that it will certainly continue! Through the ministrations of Fr. Steve Grunow and his extremely gifted staff, we will keep bringing you my regular articles, sermons, videos, and media resources.
We have so many new projects in the works, including our new film and study program on God and atheism, titled The Mystery of God, and our beautiful new documentary series CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players. Those projects will continue as planned with more to come in the future.
I am grateful to all of you who follow and support Word on Fire, using our content to form yourselves and share the Catholic Faith. I thank God each and every day for you.
It is a blessing for me to work with you to introduce people to Jesus Christ and invite them to share all the gifts he wants his people to enjoy.
Please pray for me as I begin this new adventure under the Lord’s providence.
Bishop-Elect Robert Barron
July 21, 2015
Why are you posting anti-Catholic nonsense?
Didn’t you see Jim Robinson’s thread about that?
This is my mistake. I’ve asked for it to be deleted. Not enough coffee yet.
Yes he is. I've learned much from him. I own a copy of his Catholicism series. Not to mention his on-going battle with the atheists. It has been helpful to me personally because I'm surrounded by them.
I've also learned much from Michael Voris and Church Militant to which I'm a subscriber. Both he and Father Barron have been instrumental in expanding and strengthening my faith. It wouldn't be inaccurate to say that in a sense I'm a child born of those two fathers. Which is why this is the first time I've posted a news item on FR because I have an affinity for Father Barron. I would be remiss though if I didn't acknowledge my fellow Catholics here on FR for their assistance in educating me about the faith as well.
I know there is conflict between the Barron and Voris schools of thought which I addressed up thread. But in the main the way I look at it is that I turn to Father Barron to, "know" and to Voris to, "know what's going on."
"Hell, or Gehenna, the fire, all that, those are spatial and visual metaphors for the state of deep loneliness that comes from having rejected the Divine Love. That's how I put it. Hell is not so much a place...it's a condition, a state of being..."
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Fr. Robert Barron on Misreading Genesis
One of Fr. Barron's "rich", "multivalent" insights into Genesis is the significance of "non-violence" to the creation story. He describes Genesis as "a great humanistic text".
It's neither anti-Catholic nor is it nonsense. Fr. Barron's opinions are well-known.
I like Father Barron’s talks very much. Hope he isn’t lost in paperwork now as Bishop Sheen was. Good teachers are in short supply.
Oh my gosh, are you kidding me?!? What a disaster.
When I saw the headline I thought this would be a satire or spoof article.
The Church is no longer suffering a slow decline, it is rushing headlong over a cliff in leaps and bounds.
I already posted that it was my mistake. Can you forgive me?
Have you watched any of Father Barron’s videos?
More like Vatican ecumenism ...
JPX2011, here are some links and a quote I’ve collected on a few saints who saw hell. While I really don’t know that much about Fr. Barron, the copy posted on this thread regarding his thoughts on hell differ greatly from the following saints’ documentations:
St. John Bosco’s dream of hell: http://catholicism.org/bosco-dream.html
St. Faustina’s vision of hell: “I, Sister Faustina Kowalska, by the order of God, have visited the Abysses of Hell so that I might tell souls about it and testify to its existence...the devils were full of hatred for me, but they had to obey me at the command of God, What I have written is but a pale shadow of the things I saw. But I noticed one thing: That most of the souls there are those who disbelieved that there is a hell.” (Diary 741)” http://www.divinemercysunday.com/vision.htm
St. Teresa of Avila on hell: http://catholicharboroffaithandmorals.com/St.%20Teresa%20of%20Avila%20combat%20with%20Satan.html
And for a priest who would probably not agree with Fr. Barron’s encouragement regarding hope from hell for all, this from Fr. Carota: http://www.traditionalcatholicpriest.com/2014/12/20/many-people-will-saved-hell/
While I will never agree with all of Fr Barron’s theology, here is a good example of applying discernment. He puts one over the fence with the bases loaded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_OfAX5LLOI
If one goes tot he video and watches the exposition, please watch all the way to the end, where Fr Barron addresses, sternly, tolerance in our modern age trumping love. There are some things which should not be tolerated if love is in action. Tolerating, for instance, the rise to normalcy of sexual degeneracy is abominable, a real lack of love for these lost creatures parading themselves proudly.
Oh goodie. Another Modernist heretic at the helm. This isn’t the Catholic Church; this is the Modernist Church.
15. Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true. -- Allocution "Maxima quidem," June 9, 1862; Damnatio "Multiplices inter," June 10, 1851.
16. Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation. -- Encyclical "Qui pluribus," Nov. 9, 1846.
17. Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ. -- Encyclical "Quanto conficiamur," Aug. 10, 1863, etc.
Sounds like Father Barron would disagree with Pius IX on all of these errors. But then again, these condemnations were pre-Vatican II; it's come to my attention here and other places that "things have changed". They sure have: that's the problem.
I’m not saying he is a bad guy (as some here seem to believe). Indeed he fills an important educational void for the contemporary illiterate Catholic. He is at the level of your higher quality TV evangelist, Mundelein notwithstanding. But the mere fact his name is akin to a “household word” and many folks own his rather pricey paperbacks, speaks against his eligibility for this important and possibly decades-long appointment. Good bishops are not products of Madison Avenue, IMHO.
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