May 15, 2019 / 02:22 am
Contemporary America is "mission territory," and young Catholics must step up to respond to the twin crises of Church corruption and increasing religious disaffiliation, Auxiliary Bishop Robert E. Barron of Los Angeles said in a recent speech.
Speaking to young graduates, Barron cited a "time to fight" by becoming saints and sanctifying the world.
"Don't wait for other reformers to arise; this is your moment to meet this crucial moral challenge. And no pusillanimous people need apply," he said at the May 11 commencement for Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, Calif., where the college's graduating class numbered 83.
Barron, citing Pope Francis, said that corruption is not far behind when the Church fails to go outward and instead turns in on itself.