Posted on 05/18/2024 6:13:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Fox News Digital shadowed Bishop Robert Barron for a day and spoke with him about the death of New Atheism, partisan politics, stand-up comedy, and why he's not a fan of public excommunications
It's common knowledge that the most widely followed Catholic prelate in the world is Pope Francis — Bishop of Rome, Successor to the Prince of the Apostles, and Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church.
But less obvious is the runner-up — Robert Barron, bishop of Winona-Rochester, online evangelist and founder of Word on Fire Ministries. Barron doesn’t hold any special position in the Catholic Church’s hierarchy. On paper, he’s the simple diocesean bishop of a midsize Minnesota diocese. But through his internet presence and public ministry, a religious revival of global proportions is underway.
The bishop has over 1 million subscribers on YouTube, 3 million followers on Facebook and close to 500,000 on Instagram. Barron has the ear of conservative intellectuals, elected officials, Hollywood entertainers and political activists shaping modern society. He has been invited to speak by executives at companies such as Google and Amazon, and maintains a dizzying schedule that takes him from Washington, D.C., to Rome to Prague to London and beyond.
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Who says The Pope is popular? Among Catholics he is not!
Bishop Barron explains the gospels in a straight to the point, no nonsense way, he understands how to evangelize in the 21st century
Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.
Bishop Barron famously reassured (non-Catholic) Ben Shapiro, saying that Jesus is merely the privileged path to salvation.
Who you gonna go with here?
Post the timestamp and the video if you are not lying
this is common knowledge
You should not lightly address someone using the word “lying”.
“privileged route”:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o-3JxW8BU5Q&pp=ygUcQmFycm9uIGplc3VzIHByaXZpbGVnZWQgcGF0aA%3D%3D
Watch the first 45-50 seconds or so.
Bishop Barron since then was made the ordinary of an American diocese. Harrison Butler’s recent criticism of American Catholic bishops therefore now applies to him directly.
Lay Catholics like Taylor Marshall made quick work, at that time, of Bishop Barron’s poor salvation advice to Ben Shapiro:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tFA-ABwNYOQ&pp=ygUcQmFycm9uIGplc3VzIHByaXZpbGVnZWQgcGF0aA%3D%3D
Post-Vatican II false ecumenism is an absolute scourge.
If you accept Vatican 2,
you think your church is alive.
If you reject Vatican 2,
you admit your church is dead.
Satan is trying to get him by the throat by stroking pride here like getting a dog to swallow a pill.
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