Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 16, 2023 / 15:50 pm
Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, this week argued that events such as the recently concluded World Youth Day are not only relevant to the Catholic Church but also essential to counteract what he said has been the practice of “dumbing down the faith too much for too long.”
Known for his highly popular Word on Fire ministry as well as his regular “Sunday Sermons” across social media, Barron in a recent interview with EWTN Vatican’s Colm Flynn on EWTN News Nightly reflected on the contrast between Catholicism’s decline in certain areas of the world and its growth in African and Asian countries.
The Catholic faith “is, in some ways, declining in the West; in other parts of the world, it’s not,” he said.
“One thing about World Youth Day,” the bishop said, “is that you see Catholics from all over the world, and it breaks us out of our sometimes Western myopic view of things.”