Bishop Robert Barron

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Having patience for the sausage-making Synod

Bishop Robert Barron

Oct 14, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

The midterm report on the deliberations of the Synod on the Family has appeared and there is a fair amount... Read more

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Revisiting the Argument from Motion

Bishop Robert Barron

Oct 6, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

One of the unintended but happy consequences of the emergence of the new atheism is a renewed interest in the... Read more

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The Parable of the Talents

Bishop Robert Barron

Sep 23, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

The attendance at our daily Mundelein Seminary on Labor Day weekend was sparse. Many of the students had gone home... Read more

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'The Giver' and the fading memory of Christianity

Bishop Robert Barron

Sep 3, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel The Giver has garnered a very wide audience over the past two decades, since it has... Read more

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Why I love my invisible friend

Bishop Robert Barron

Aug 25, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

One of the favorite taunts of the New Atheists is that religious people believe in an “invisible friend.” They are... Read more

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'The Fault in Our Stars' and the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Bishop Robert Barron

Jul 1, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

John Green’s novel The Fault in Our Stars has proven to be wildly popular among young adults in the English... Read more

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Bill Maher and not understanding either faith or the Bible

Bishop Robert Barron

Jun 16, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

I don’t know what possesses me to watch “Real Time With Bill Maher,” for Maher is, without a doubt, the... Read more

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The danger of soft atheism

Bishop Robert Barron

May 20, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

A very instructive exchange between Gary Gutting, a philosophy professor at Notre Dame, and Philip Kitcher, a philosophy professor at... Read more

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What Easter means

Bishop Robert Barron

Apr 22, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

In first century Judaism, there were many views concerning what happened to people after they died.  Following a very venerable... Read more

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Why Jesus is God: A Response to Bart Ehrman

Bishop Robert Barron

Apr 15, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

Well, it’s Easter time, and that means that the mainstream media and publishing houses can be counted upon to issue... Read more

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Noah: A Post-Modern Midrash

Bishop Robert Barron

Apr 1, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

Darren Aronofsky’s cinematic re-telling of the story of Noah has certainly stirred people up.  While quite a few reviewers, both... Read more

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'Cosmos' and one more telling of the tired myth

Bishop Robert Barron

Mar 18, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

Seth MacFarlane, well known atheist and cartoonist, is the executive producer of the remake of “Cosmos,” which recently made its... Read more

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A Message in Blood: ISIS and the Meaning of the Cross

Bishop Robert Barron

Feb 27, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

Last week, the attention of the world was riveted to a deserted beach in northern Libya, where a group of... Read more

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'Priest, Prophet and King'

Bishop Robert Barron

Feb 18, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

A classic characterization of Jesus is that he is priest, prophet, and king.  As priest, he sanctifies, that is to... Read more

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Extreme demand, extreme mercy: the Catholic approach to morality

Bishop Robert Barron

Feb 10, 2014

By Bishop Robert Barron

The Catholic Church is often criticized as rigorist, unrealistic, and unbending, especially in regard to its teaching on sexuality.  How... Read more

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The adventure of classical morality

Bishop Robert Barron

May 7, 2013

By Bishop Robert Barron

One of the most significant fault lines in Western culture opened up in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when what... Read more

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'Gay marriage' and the breakdown of moral argument

Bishop Robert Barron

Apr 15, 2013

By Bishop Robert Barron

In his classic text After Virtue, the philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre lamented, not so much the immorality that runs rampant in... Read more

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The new Francis

Bishop Robert Barron

Mar 18, 2013

By Bishop Robert Barron

I had an excellent vantage point for the presentation of Pope Francis to the world, for I was doing commentary... Read more

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Garry Wills agonistes

Bishop Robert Barron

Mar 13, 2013

By Bishop Robert Barron

The hermeneutical key to Garry Wills’s preposterous book "Why Priests? A Failed Tradition" can be found in the second chapter,... Read more

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To evangelize through beauty

Bishop Robert Barron

Feb 19, 2013

By Bishop Robert Barron

In his masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh implicitly lays out a program of evangelization that has particular relevance to our... Read more