Articles by Bishop Robert Barron

I had the extraordinary privilege last week of following the Pope’s pilgrimage at very close quarters. I had this access both as a bishop and as a commentator for NBC News. It was thrilling indeed […]

It was revealed this week that, for the first time in its history, Harvard University, which had been founded for religious purposes and named for a minister of the Gospel, has admitted a freshman class […]

The upcoming canonization of Blessed Junípero Serra in Washington, D.C. – the first ever to take place on American soil – has generated, as I’m sure you know, a good deal of controversy. For his […]

Just last week, Stephen Colbert gave an interview in which the depth of his Catholic faith was on pretty clear display. Discussing the trauma that he experienced as a young man-the deaths of his father […]

Conservation International has sponsored a series of videos that have become YouTube sensations, garnering millions of views. They feature famous actors – Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Robert Redford, and others –voicing different aspects of the natural world, […]

Every third summer, the Catholic lectionary provides a series of readings for Sunday Mass from the sixth chapter of the Gospel of John. This is the magnificently crafted chapter in which the evangelist’s Eucharistic theology […]

I am sure by now that many of you have seen the appalling hidden-camera videos of two Planned Parenthood physicians bantering cheerfully with interlocutors posing as prospective buyers of the body parts of aborted infants. […]

In the wake of the publication of Pope Francis’s encyclical letter Laudato Si’ and of the Pope’s recent speeches in Latin America, many supporters of the capitalist economy in the West might be forgiven for thinking that […]