Bishop Robert Barron
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171 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 3 Apr
Bishop Robert Barron’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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What do you think that was? Why the 20th century? Well, you could do— So much darker than anything that happened in the Dark Ages.
I interrupted you. I'm so sorry. You said Pope Leo XIII had, can you explain what you mean he had this sense?
I couldn't agree more. I've come to this conclusion recently, but I think you're exactly right. So what's the St. Michael's prayer that was... St.
And Pope Leo said, the 13th said, I think this century is going to be done.
Because, I mean, 1903 was a period of great hope in the West. Yes.
So Vatican II is a direct response to the Second World War.
Do you think that the sex abuse was a result of Vatican II?
What were the changes wrought by Vatican II? There was famously the change in language of the mass from Latin to colloquial. But I learned recently that there were what seemed like theological changes to church doctrine.
the church seems to be readjusting in a new direction now. Is that fair? With Pope Leo, you mean? Well, that just happened. No, but I mean, well, I'll just be totally blunt. So the Catholic Church got in American political terms, which are a pretty limited way to describe it, but got super liberal. The Jesuits, the Mary Knowles, pretty liberal is my non-Catholic perspective.
And then all of a sudden, everywhere you look, people you know are converting to Catholicism with a pretty kind of traditionally Christian orientation. Is that real, do you think?
Why? That's such an interesting, it's kind of the last impulse you would think in someone who's devoted his life to, you know, being a member of the clergy.
No, right, right. Totally eliminated mainstream Protestantism with these ideas.
As if you can have a religion within the limits of reason. Right. So funny.
Yeah.
And again, it completely destroyed American Protestantism.
Literally the roof. I mean, the physical ruins, like the roof has fallen and no one's going.
Yeah.
Yes.
You often hear, and it's accepted uncritically, or was when I was a kid anyway, that religion, Christianity leads to violence. Right. You know, and that was really the driver. I mean, Hitchens, who I knew well, that was his main argument. People get, you know, inflexible when they believe in the supernatural and they have to kill anyone who disagrees. But does the historical record support that?
is not to more violence it's to respond with forgiving love that's christianity now the distortions of it are everywhere but that's christianity it's not a religion of violence it's so non-obvious it's so preposterous and crazy that the fact that that became the world's most popular religion tells you it's true yes like who could make that up Yes. It's so unappealing.
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