Bishop Robert Barron, Author at ZENIT - English

"Bridge of Spies" and the Path to Virtue

The best way to understand virtue is not through abstract study but rather by watching the virtuous man in action

Nov 18, 2015 17:09

FORUM: René Girard, Church Father

“There are some thinkers that offer intriguing ideas and proposals, and there is a tiny handful of thinkers that manage to shake your world. Girard was in this second camp”

Nov 10, 2015 18:18

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality

Daniel and the Great Unveiling

“When Jesus came preaching precisely the kingdom of God, we should not be surprised that people took him to be announcing the fulfillment of the Daniel prophecy. But was this in the mind of Jesus himself?”

Nov 03, 2015 18:11

Bishop Robert Barron

Art and Culture

FORUM: "Ross Douthat and the Catholic Academy"

“The letter to the Times is indicative indeed of a much wider problem in our intellectual culture, namely, the tendency to avoid real argument and to censor what makes us, for whatever reason, uncomfortable”

Oct 29, 2015 16:25

Bishop Robert Barron

Spirituality

FORUM: "Preaching the Strange Word"

“None of these figures – from the late 2nd century to the 20th century – whose sermons we specially revere and hold up for imitation, preached the way I was taught to preach”

Oct 27, 2015 17:25

Bishop Robert Barron

Art and Culture

Forum: "The Martian" and Why Each Life Matters

“The classical Christian tradition, with its roots in the Bible, would argue that there is a qualitative and not merely quantitative difference between human beings and other animals”

Oct 20, 2015 14:37

Bishop Robert Barron

Art and Culture

Forum: Pope Francis and True Mercy

In speaking of mercy and inclusivity, the Pope is decidedly not declaring that “I’m okay and you’re okay.” He is calling people to conversion.

Oct 13, 2015 16:53

Bishop Robert Barron

Art and Culture

Forum: Brian Williams, Chris Matthews, and Letting the Fly Out of the Fly Bottle

“I told Matthews that I thought it was very important to revisit the largely unrealized aspiration of the Vatican II fathers to empower the laity to sanctify the world”

Oct 08, 2015 13:28

Bishop Robert Barron

Art and Culture

Forum: The Pope, The Congress, and a Trappist Monk

“When a sense of God evanesces-as it has increasingly in our secularized Western world-all we have left for understanding human affairs are psychological and political categories”

Oct 01, 2015 15:04

Bishop Robert Barron

Art and Culture

FORUM: Your Life Does Not Belong to You

“We are built for worship, and therefore in the absence of God, we will make some other value our ultimate concern. Wealth, power, pleasure, and honor have all played the role of false gods over the course of the human drama, but today especially, freedom itself has emerged as the ultimate good, as the object of worship”

Sep 16, 2015 15:44

Bishop Robert Barron

Apostolic Trips