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From movies to state funerals, Winona-Rochester Bishop Barron uses his megaphone to spread his message Barron takes his battle against "beige Catholicism" to social media.
Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, this week said the next pope should be a disciple of Christ first and foremost, one who places “the declaration of Jesus” at the center of ...
Bishop Robert Barron is urging Catholics to skip the new film “Conclave” — a fictional movie that depicts a papal conclave — saying that it “checks every woke box.” “If you are ...
Bishop Robert Barron criticized multiple arguments against Christianity included in a recent piece by The New Yorker, slamming the media habit of criticizing faith around Easter.
Winona-Rochester Bishop Robert Barron called a newly passed Minnesota abortion bill that enshrines abortion rights into law “the worst kind of barbarism.” “I want to share with you my anger ...
NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters admits he hurled a throwaway line at Bishop Robert Barron and he is a substantial person. "He deserves more than what reads like a Twitter rant," Winters writes.
Bishop Robert Barron, who was elected as a delegate to the Catholic Church's upcoming global synod, says he trusts Pope Francis's leadership in the conference.
Asking Commonweal to retract a passage in an article Word on Fire didn't like raises a larger issue: that a diocesan bishop, armed with a personal media empire, thinks it is appropriate to stifle ...
America’s most watched bishop, Robert Barron, is scouting out a new future for Christianity.
David G. O’Connell, a Roman Catholic bishop, was shot in his home in Hacienda Heights, Calif., on Saturday. The authorities said the man in custody was the husband of the bishop’s housekeeper.
Bishop Robert Barron was not the only bishop to highlight the Synod on Synodality’s discussion of the relationship between “love and truth” this week.
Bishop Barron may be correct that the church has become intellectually weaker, but the way to truth is to continue inviting the voices of those who have been marginalized in the past.