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Bishop Barron makes the faith attractive again

March 01, 2023

In the English speaking world, Christians are becoming fewer and fewer, and older and older. Certainly in the UK, census figures released last month showed that less than half the population identified themselves as Christian; for young people, the figure was barely one in three. The same phenomenon is evident in the US. As Stephen

Bishop Barron: ‘Modernity is a Christian heresy’

February 16, 2023

If available information about Mass attendance since the COVID-19 outbreak is true, then there was certainly significant cause for Word on Fire and Catholic Voices’ conference on identifying the ways of sharing the Church’s story in the modern world. The key speaker at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre opposite Westminster Abbey was American Bishop Robert

Bishop Barron: The teachings of the Church Fathers are our ‘spiritual weapons’ – it is madness to throw them away

February 08, 2023

(Photograph: Catholic Herald columnist Katherine Bennett helped organise Bishop Barron’s UK tour) I have been watching Bishop Barron online for over a decade. I became a member of his enormously popular “Word on Fire” apostolate, and I spent much of last year helping Brenden Thompson of Catholic Voices organise his upcoming visit to the UK. I,

Morning Catholic must-reads: 30/10/15

October 30, 2015

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