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What Is Synodality?

February 18, 2020 Bishop Robert Barron 10

It was a great privilege for me to participate in the Synod on Young People in the fall of 2018. Along with about three hundred other bishops and ecclesial experts from around the world, I […]

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The One Pope

January 2, 2020 Bishop Robert Barron 15

The new and much-ballyhooed Netflix film The Two Popes should, by rights, be called The One Pope, for it presents a fairly nuanced, textured, and sympathetic portrait of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) and a […]

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God Comes to Reign

December 17, 2019 Bishop Robert Barron 7

I am sure that every religious person, every believer in God, at some point wonders, “why doesn’t God just straighten everything out?” Why doesn’t the all-powerful and all-loving Creator of the universe simply deal with […]