Thank you Bishop Barron for your videos. They're so enlightening. I always pray for you, for Pope Francis and our Holy Catholic Church. May God bless you and keep you safe!
I'd heard of Innocent III but now that I know only one thing he did, I love this man and his actions. And praise be to God for the Franciscans! who are some of the most hard working priests I know.
I just cant believe that any one can give a thumbs down. Look at how many followers Bishop Barron has 111 Ephesians 1:11 In him we were also chosen, having predestined according to the plan of who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.
I am reminded of a visit from a priest who came to us from Europe with sermons and information about St. Faustina. Doctors recently described my hearing loss as going from severe to profound. So, I got very little of the sermons, however, I was asked to drive this visiting priest to a mission church where maybe I had a better chance to hear. I thought i hit the jackpot. In preparing my car for the trip, the priest loaded all his paper work, hand outs, etc. in the front seat. I lost the opportunity to visit with him on the trip, as he jumped into the back seat. He explained that where he came from the bishop always rode in the back, and now it was his turn.. Because of my hearing loss and his accent I could not hear his message at the mission church either. What else is new? I think things are the same all over, and Pope Francis is preaching right on key.
He is certainly not behaving like a guilty man; asking special permission to put himself in the hands of his accusers. "One mustn't judge before justice judges,..."-Pope Francis "naturally one wouldn't condemn a dog on newspaper extracts." -CS Lewis
I'm an Australian, I'm atheist, and personally I think - especially because of the way and timing when compared with the other abuse tribunals here - that this is a total witch hunt. Just my 2c.
Πέτρος They don't hate the Catholic Church, they hate child abuse. This child abuse is a result of the Catholic Church though.... It's a criminal organization
Jonathan Kearney . Ahhhh.. many thanks, you do great work. I love his channel, & recommend it to other Catholics. Maybe you could do a BTS set-up at some stage? It might encourage others!
If there be this liturgy then it be imperfect not in the glory of God, but in the belief that you have achieved ends worthy to revel in glory of his name.
Bishop Barron mention priests getting spiritual Alzheimer's; forgetting what brought them to the priesthood. As a lay person, I feel this describes my faith journey at this current point in my life.
Bishop Barron, would you consider working up this retreat plan you gave to the Priests in Ireland into a book and possibly expand the teaching for lay people as well? I would love to read something like that. Many thanks, Joanne Fox
I wish that on some day in the future Bishop Barron would do a video on: ""The Hound of Heaven" is a 182-line poem written by English poet Francis Thompson." If you have not read this poem, I suggest you do; just look up the title: The Hound of Heaven.
bishop barron god bless you and kindness and a form or orthodox that is a orthodox of 21stAmerica. you are a true servant of god. i am a true new age orthodox catholic that am loyel to the heir of peter and all he proposes is gods will . adoration nerver doubt that is where god will answerer
Bishop Barron, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Kesha's new song "Praying". First song after 4 years due to an incident involving sexual assault from her producer I believe. Heavy religious symbolism in the video. It's getting a lot of attention right now.
This was a powerful message, Bishop Barron. I would love to attend a retreat, though I attended your Woman at the Well sermon at my parish (St. Louis de Montfort). I especially appreciated your defense of Pope Francis' emphasis on mercy, predicated on the field hospital image. However, I wasn't thrilled by your implicit slight against Climate Change. I agree that it's an oversimplification of Laudato Si to focus on Climate Change, but his teaching on this grave issue isn't tired or unimportant. It's a serious issue that will affect people at the periphery-- and along the coasts. Thank you for this great video! God bless!
I was surprised that when you said that we are all sinners “without exception” that you didn’t exclude Mary from that since according to the Catholic Church Mary was born without sin and never sinned in her life.
After reading some of these horrible misguided comments of hate towards the Catholic Church I can see why the ''Comments'' section is SHUT DOWN on a lot of sites. Pure ignorance prevails with the loudest hateful voices.
I can't help but think that Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, on a donkey, must have brought a smile and a laugh to the people who witnessed it. I picture some of his disciples wanting them all to arrive on glorious war horses, and Jesus subverting this pretense of earthly conquest.
Yes, look at your life! The Church is not a place to become rich or not follow the laws that other must. Look at the decline of Rome? The standers of life have greatly fallen. Yes, get out around the people. What kind of law enforcement would we have it the police only operated behind a wall?
Thank you father for your words of Him ( Christ) in you. Please tell the pope that I think He should repent if all these things we are hearing are truth
I wonder if cardinal wuerl heard the pope's message about being a servant?...is wuerl still living in his penthouse on Embassy Row with his personal chef and chauffer?...kinda hard to be a servant when you live a pretty luxurious lifestyle...
As a fellow Catholic, I admire you greatly bishop, that being said I'm very concerned of the pedophilia that seems to be occurring commonly in the priesthood. This seriously needs to be addressed and stopped. It's having me worried about my own faith in my own religious group. I think practicing celibacy is contributing to some serious perversions and shouldn't be practiced anymore. Hiding this in the dark is not the Christian/Catholic way. It's not what Jesus would want and it's not what God would want. I might not be his judge but that doesn't mean I can't have an opinion. *please address this, it is too important a matter!*
From what I understand, the main reason acts of pedophilia was so heinously rampant in the priesthood, especially back then, was because pedophiles knew that priests would have many opportunities to be around children and also that some of the corrupt Church officials were willing to sweep it under the rug and help the perpetrators get away with it. So far, that sounds like the problem that needs to be tackled head-on and fully fixed. The root cause has nothing to do with celibacy, from what I heard. Over the years in fact, I have skimmed through statistics that suggest most child sex-offenders are married people. If the person is already messed up in the head, then he will have that inclination with or without a spouse. Personally, the main reason I highly doubt claims that celibacy is the cause of these behaviors is that I myself am living the equivalent of a celibate life, since I am unmarried. If it was true that celibacy is what mainly turns people into child sex-offenders, then one would think I had stopped desiring intimacy with an adult woman long ago and my sexual orientation will soon spontaneously turn towards prepubescent boys.
Mark Cobuzzi that is just an anecdote, my basis is off studies that show when you sexually repress some people it can turn into sexual perversions. I think it would be pretty easy to draw a conclusion that celibacy can have an adverse affect. I'm only saying this because I care. It is clearly a recurring theme is the Catholic Church.
+Bluewren Reilly When I said "heinously rampant," I was A.) Referring to past periods before a lot of these scandals were being exposed and dealt with; and B.) Intending to say that the fact these crimes are even being committed by individual priests at all, the people who are entrusted to be our role models and guides to God, is still appalling to me (even supposing the quantity of cases may now be relatively low)
+Red XIII I do care greatly as well and I admire how seriously you are taking this issue. I too believe that the Church is doing an overall unsatisfactory job at erecting sexual intimacy/pleasure into a positive light and then "putting their money where their mouths are," which is making it easier for many problems in our culture to get worse. But in the case of these particular abuses, the blame for them cannot be mainly pinned just on something like priestly celibacy. I am just going to give two more sets of my thoughts, if you do not mind and still want to read on. It is a lot and I am no psychologist, so don't think you have it read any of it, and feel free to take it with a grain of salt: This is more based on my own experience with people of different sexual orientations and specific stories I read, rather than quantifiable statistics, but I know that sexual orientations are rarely malleable. For me personally at least, the very idea that a normal man who desires adult women might suddenly turn into a pedophile that desires pre-pubescent boys, just by him choosing not to have sex (and assuming nothing else is wrong with him), makes about as much sense as telling a gay/lesbian person that if he/she abstains from homosexual sex, then his orientation will turn straight, due to his lack of any other sexual partners available besides the opposite gender. With all the personal testimonies I read or listened to, whomever a person sexually desires (whether it be men vs. women or pubescent vs. prepubescent) are often determined by physiological factors set in stone, which cannot just be magically changed on a whim. Also, last time I checked, most people that become Catholic priests choose this occupation willingly and can even technically leave the Church if they are not cut out for it at all. It would be a different matter, if we are talking about scenarios similar to that of Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," where the character had no choice in the matter and other factors were at play. Such factors included Claude Frollo being groomed from birth for the priesthood without his input, being heartbroken and traumatized from losing most of his family to the plague, not being shown how sexual/platonic relationships can both be expressions of love, growing up in complete isolation from women (so he does not even learn how to love them platonically), being a pharisaical legalist, and erroneously believing that the Romani/Gypsies are satanists and criminals, before finally becoming infatuated with Esmeralda. Even so, he still bears some culpability for acting on selfish jealousy, when Esmeralda does not desire him back, and for deliberately embracing the heretical notion that he had no free will, which he then uses as an excuse to say that God made him too weak to say no to Esmeralda's "spell" and that it is entirely the work of Satan's "witch". Most Catholic priests I know are more like you and I, who do not have backstories anything like that, which actually could mess somebody up and make it easier for him to not know any better. Normally, a man enters the priesthood willingly, so if devoting their whole lives to a vocation of the holy orders does not work well with them, they can choose to simply not become a priest and marry like anyone else. If a normal priest were to have problems that reveal themselves down the road (and which celibacy also does not help), then they still can choose not to resist acting on these inclinations and, at the very least, seek help. If they choose to do neither when it is within their power and knowledge, then it is their own fault, not the fault of the celibacy rule.
Bishops not teaching the truth have caused great destruction. Bishop Barron, is there a "reasonable hope" that all souls end up in Heaven? If so, where do you get that.
Poverty is good, good preaching is must but francis misses most important point courage! Courage of Bishops, courage of Pope to face current challenges of modernity and its victims ( and I am not talking about fake substitutes like migrants or environment ) but most numerous and serious = children brought by unloving parents into this world only to be aborted or emotionally wounded by selfish single mother or her transient boyfriend or later being molested by teacher and Priests(thankfully in the in the past)
I don't understand. Jesus (Christian conception) is never a friend of a non-Jew. He helps non-Jews (e.g., Mark 7:27 and on) but he is only the friend of the Jews (e.g., Peter, Paul). How can non-Jews be friends with Jesus if Jesus never showed any interest in being friends with non-Jews. Jesus might save you (since you are the house pets of the children) but that does not make him your friend dear non-Jews. You are second to the Jews in the eyes of Jesus so please never forget your place in the kingdom of god.
I am not sure the Church is advanced by being an apologist for the Pope. I would rather deal with the power of Jesus, the Son of the living God. As far as Frances...I have many doubts.
Oh he pops up on just about every Catholic video I've ever watched and repeats the same verses and arguments. He challenges me to articulate deeper theology in a palpable way. If no one ever gets through to him, at least his presence has helped me become a better apologist!
ryeis1 You waste your time on that dude? He ignores replies when he doesn't have an answer anymore. How convenient! But if he makes you a better apologist, then God guide you.
Katrina Rhoda Diaz, I know, I know. He is persistent if nothing else. I only hope that if he never gets a clue, someone else might read my replies and not be mislead.
ryeis1 I've had several discussions with Mr. Spangler. He isn't that deep a thinker. You need to be well versed in the faith because that's what a Catholic should be. Spangler will challenge you until you pin his ears back with the truth of the faith. Then he melts away. He's a protestant. He can't defend his beliefs.
I don't like Pope Francis. His behaviour , speeches, statements are annoying. After Vatican II, everything is going downward , churches are not like churches but like an entertaining hall or people's own living room - chatting, socializing, the Sacramental rituals are simplified or make-up rituals, the Tabunacle is placed aside but the chair of the priest is placed in the centre like he is God instead, priests saying Mass without zeal like doing a routine job. Priests, please don't always blame the lay Catholic , who are sheep without shepherd , please be virtuous and act as what GOD called you for!!!
Did he say Preaching ? I have never seen a Catholic Priest preach. I was raised Catholic, sorry to say. Human tradition, hypocrisy, Idolatry, drunkenness, child abuse... Did he say Preaching ? In what way could you ever be righteous enough to say GOD .
Bishop Barron. God bless you, and thank you for all that you do. I will keep all priest in my prayers. please pray for me. Pace e Bene
Nel nome del nostro padre San Francesco, pace e bene con te.
I will my brother. thank you
Thank you Bishop! I always enjoy your insights. God bless you and all the clergy.
Thank you Bishop Barron for your videos. They're so enlightening. I always pray for you, for Pope Francis and our Holy Catholic Church. May God bless you and keep you safe!
My prayers for you and all priests. Especially the local ones I know personally.
Thank you. God bless you Bishop Barron!
I am so thankful for all our good and holy Priests. We pray for them and love them.
Thanks a lot Bishop Barron love to see your videos, always pray for our priests, on in particular is you our beloved Bishop Barron gracias
I saw pope francis. It will never leave me
Thank you for all you. Will keep praying for all priests and nuns. God is hood
I'd heard of Innocent III but now that I know only one thing he did, I love this man and his actions. And praise be to God for the Franciscans! who are some of the most hard working priests I know.
Beautiful message given 5 years ago but even better now if that is possible!
Thanks for your supporting reply Bishop from an a recent video, God bless.
thank you.
I just cant believe that any one can give a thumbs down. Look at how many followers Bishop Barron has 111 Ephesians 1:11 In him we were also chosen, having predestined according to the plan of who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.
I am reminded of a visit from a priest who came to us from Europe with sermons and information about St. Faustina. Doctors recently described my hearing loss as going from severe to profound. So, I got very little of the sermons, however, I was asked to drive this visiting priest to a mission church where maybe I had a better chance to hear. I thought i hit the jackpot. In preparing my car for the trip, the priest loaded all his paper work, hand outs, etc. in the front seat. I lost the opportunity to visit with him on the trip, as he jumped into the back seat. He explained that where he came from the bishop always rode in the back, and now it was his turn.. Because of my hearing loss and his accent I could not hear his message at the mission church either. What else is new? I think things are the same all over, and Pope Francis is preaching right on key.
I always look forward to listening to our homies thank you and God bless you. Preach more to me.
Fill my heart with your spiritual mind.
Bishop please make a video about the accusations about Cardinal Pell please....
Church is under attack because of Pell! Please help us understand what is happening!
Πέτρος #FAKENEWS???
He is certainly not behaving like a guilty man; asking special permission to put himself in the hands of his accusers.
"One mustn't judge before justice judges,..."-Pope Francis
"naturally one wouldn't condemn a dog on newspaper extracts." -CS Lewis
I'm an Australian, I'm atheist, and personally I think - especially because of the way and timing when compared with the other abuse tribunals here - that this is a total witch hunt.
Just my 2c.
Πέτρος
They don't hate the Catholic Church, they hate child abuse.
This child abuse is a result of the Catholic Church though....
It's a criminal organization
From his first appearance as Pope he inspires me as the Pope of the People, our Pope of the little guy.
marvelous, I love his conception of Pope Frances and how He leads by real example
Thank you😊
I want to thank you for taking my advice to add saturation and contrast to the video footage.
Bishop Barron have you read A Canticle for Leibowitz ?
SO good! Other than Robert Hugh Benson's works, one of the very few pieces of good Catholic sci-fi
Beautiful 😢
I like the description of priests as icons of Christ.
The Best, Fulton Sheen, Mother Angelica, and Bishop Barron, Holy Spirit Come to us.
Thank you...
Bishop, where is your Silver TH-cam Play Button? You have had 100K subscribers for sometime now.
Sadly, he has not yet received it!
Jonathan Kearney That's amazing if true! How do you know this?
Because I work for him :) I hope we receive it soon!
Would this be the first Catholic evangelist to receive it? Perhaps Bishop Barron could present it to the Pope?
Jonathan Kearney . Ahhhh.. many thanks, you do great work. I love his channel, & recommend it to other Catholics. Maybe you could do a BTS set-up at some stage? It might encourage others!
GOD BLESS YOU AND OUR POPE...ALWAYS! :)
This video was awesome! Thanks for putting Father Matthew Broady from the Arch of Philadephia!
If there be this liturgy then it be imperfect not in the glory of God, but in the belief that you have achieved ends worthy to revel in glory of his name.
Bishop can you make a video about the power of confession and our cultures loss of it. thanks!0
I think it was Jung, a contemporary psychologist with Freud who said "if my patients went to confession, I would lose 99% of them."
Bishop Barron mention priests getting spiritual Alzheimer's; forgetting what brought them to the priesthood. As a lay person, I feel this describes my faith journey at this current point in my life.
I remember watching that movie about St. Francis in Catholic school.
can you do a video about jordan peterson?
Bishop Barron, would you consider working up this retreat plan you gave to the Priests in Ireland into a book and possibly expand the teaching for lay people as well? I would love to read something like that. Many thanks, Joanne Fox
can some one tell me the name of movie Bishop Robert Barron is talking about
thank you
I wish that on some day in the future Bishop Barron would do a video on: ""The Hound of Heaven" is a 182-line poem written by English poet Francis Thompson." If you have not read this poem, I suggest you do; just look up the title: The Hound of Heaven.
bishop barron god bless you and kindness and a form or orthodox that is a orthodox of 21stAmerica. you are a true servant of god. i am a true new age orthodox catholic that am loyel to the heir of peter and all he proposes is gods will . adoration nerver doubt that is where god will answerer
Bishop Barron, I'd love to hear your thoughts on Kesha's new song "Praying". First song after 4 years due to an incident involving sexual assault from her producer I believe. Heavy religious symbolism in the video. It's getting a lot of attention right now.
This was a powerful message, Bishop Barron. I would love to attend a retreat, though I attended your Woman at the Well sermon at my parish (St. Louis de Montfort). I especially appreciated your defense of Pope Francis' emphasis on mercy, predicated on the field hospital image. However, I wasn't thrilled by your implicit slight against Climate Change. I agree that it's an oversimplification of Laudato Si to focus on Climate Change, but his teaching on this grave issue isn't tired or unimportant. It's a serious issue that will affect people at the periphery-- and along the coasts. Thank you for this great video! God bless!
I was surprised that when you said that we are all sinners “without exception” that you didn’t exclude Mary from that since according to the Catholic Church Mary was born without sin and never sinned in her life.
Im not perfect. But im putting it into practice everytime.
I always love your videos, Bishop. Keep them coming!
The religious leaders of Christendom remind me of the religious leaders of Jesus day.
After reading some of these horrible misguided comments of hate towards the Catholic Church I can see why the ''Comments'' section is SHUT DOWN on a lot of sites. Pure ignorance prevails with the loudest hateful voices.
Ross Munn you would love bishop williamson
Ross Munn jesus loved comments and the the nasty the better pharisees comments where beaten with the truth
I noticed Bishop Barron is pretty good and witty with some of his replies to the nasties!
Where is his Diocese?
Long live to Jesús Christ! He gets union all!😇😇😇👼🐬🍼💎💗💗💗
I can't help but think that Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, on a donkey, must have brought a smile and a laugh to the people who witnessed it. I picture some of his disciples wanting them all to arrive on glorious war horses, and Jesus subverting this pretense of earthly conquest.
Yes, look at your life! The Church is not a place to become rich or not follow the laws that other must. Look at the decline of Rome? The standers of life have greatly fallen.
Yes, get out around the people. What kind of law enforcement would we have it the police only operated behind a wall?
Bishop Barron, I'm extremely depressed now. Cardinal Pell's situation makes me sick. Please make a video on it...
Thank you father for your words of Him ( Christ) in you. Please tell the pope that I think He should repent if all these things we are hearing are truth
With us or against us.
Say
I wonder if cardinal wuerl heard the pope's message about being a servant?...is wuerl still living in his penthouse on Embassy Row with his personal chef and chauffer?...kinda hard to be a servant when you live a pretty luxurious lifestyle...
As a fellow Catholic, I admire you greatly bishop, that being said I'm very concerned of the pedophilia that seems to be occurring commonly in the priesthood. This seriously needs to be addressed and stopped. It's having me worried about my own faith in my own religious group. I think practicing celibacy is contributing to some serious perversions and shouldn't be practiced anymore. Hiding this in the dark is not the Christian/Catholic way. It's not what Jesus would want and it's not what God would want. I might not be his judge but that doesn't mean I can't have an opinion. *please address this, it is too important a matter!*
From what I understand, the main reason acts of pedophilia was so heinously rampant in the priesthood, especially back then, was because pedophiles knew that priests would have many opportunities to be around children and also that some of the corrupt Church officials were willing to sweep it under the rug and help the perpetrators get away with it. So far, that sounds like the problem that needs to be tackled head-on and fully fixed.
The root cause has nothing to do with celibacy, from what I heard. Over the years in fact, I have skimmed through statistics that suggest most child sex-offenders are married people. If the person is already messed up in the head, then he will have that inclination with or without a spouse.
Personally, the main reason I highly doubt claims that celibacy is the cause of these behaviors is that I myself am living the equivalent of a celibate life, since I am unmarried. If it was true that celibacy is what mainly turns people into child sex-offenders, then one would think I had stopped desiring intimacy with an adult woman long ago and my sexual orientation will soon spontaneously turn towards prepubescent boys.
Mark Cobuzzi that is just an anecdote, my basis is off studies that show when you sexually repress some people it can turn into sexual perversions. I think it would be pretty easy to draw a conclusion that celibacy can have an adverse affect. I'm only saying this because I care. It is clearly a recurring theme is the Catholic Church.
+Bluewren Reilly
When I said "heinously rampant," I was A.) Referring to past periods before a lot of these scandals were being exposed and dealt with; and B.) Intending to say that the fact these crimes are even being committed by individual priests at all, the people who are entrusted to be our role models and guides to God, is still appalling to me (even supposing the quantity of cases may now be relatively low)
+Red XIII
I do care greatly as well and I admire how seriously you are taking this issue. I too believe that the Church is doing an overall unsatisfactory job at erecting sexual intimacy/pleasure into a positive light and then "putting their money where their mouths are," which is making it easier for many problems in our culture to get worse.
But in the case of these particular abuses, the blame for them cannot be mainly pinned just on something like priestly celibacy. I am just going to give two more sets of my thoughts, if you do not mind and still want to read on. It is a lot and I am no psychologist, so don't think you have it read any of it, and feel free to take it with a grain of salt:
This is more based on my own experience with people of different sexual orientations and specific stories I read, rather than quantifiable statistics, but I know that sexual orientations are rarely malleable. For me personally at least, the very idea that a normal man who desires adult women might suddenly turn into a pedophile that desires pre-pubescent boys, just by him choosing not to have sex (and assuming nothing else is wrong with him), makes about as much sense as telling a gay/lesbian person that if he/she abstains from homosexual sex, then his orientation will turn straight, due to his lack of any other sexual partners available besides the opposite gender. With all the personal testimonies I read or listened to, whomever a person sexually desires (whether it be men vs. women or pubescent vs. prepubescent) are often determined by physiological factors set in stone, which cannot just be magically changed on a whim.
Also, last time I checked, most people that become Catholic priests choose this occupation willingly and can even technically leave the Church if they are not cut out for it at all. It would be a different matter, if we are talking about scenarios similar to that of Claude Frollo from Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame," where the character had no choice in the matter and other factors were at play.
Such factors included Claude Frollo being groomed from birth for the priesthood without his input, being heartbroken and traumatized from losing most of his family to the plague, not being shown how sexual/platonic relationships can both be expressions of love, growing up in complete isolation from women (so he does not even learn how to love them platonically), being a pharisaical legalist, and erroneously believing that the Romani/Gypsies are satanists and criminals, before finally becoming infatuated with Esmeralda. Even so, he still bears some culpability for acting on selfish jealousy, when Esmeralda does not desire him back, and for deliberately embracing the heretical notion that he had no free will, which he then uses as an excuse to say that God made him too weak to say no to Esmeralda's "spell" and that it is entirely the work of Satan's "witch".
Most Catholic priests I know are more like you and I, who do not have backstories anything like that, which actually could mess somebody up and make it easier for him to not know any better. Normally, a man enters the priesthood willingly, so if devoting their whole lives to a vocation of the holy orders does not work well with them, they can choose to simply not become a priest and marry like anyone else. If a normal priest were to have problems that reveal themselves down the road (and which celibacy also does not help), then they still can choose not to resist acting on these inclinations and, at the very least, seek help. If they choose to do neither when it is within their power and knowledge, then it is their own fault, not the fault of the celibacy rule.
Bishops not teaching the truth have caused great destruction.
Bishop Barron, is there a "reasonable hope" that all souls end up in Heaven? If so, where do you get that.
Kevy Moranski Um...the dying and rising of Jesus.
Is it falling in love with the Church (an institution/object) or is it falling in love with Jesus?
Racheal Brimberry Can't separate them. The Church isn't an institution; it's Christ's mystical body.
Poverty is good, good preaching is must but francis misses most important point courage! Courage of Bishops, courage of Pope to face current challenges of modernity and its victims ( and I am not talking about fake substitutes like migrants or environment ) but most numerous and serious = children brought by unloving parents into this world only to be aborted or emotionally wounded by selfish single mother or her transient boyfriend or later being molested by teacher and Priests(thankfully in the in the past)
Cardinal Burke for pope.
I don't understand.
Jesus (Christian conception) is never a friend of a non-Jew. He helps non-Jews (e.g., Mark 7:27 and on) but he is only the friend of the Jews (e.g., Peter, Paul).
How can non-Jews be friends with Jesus if Jesus never showed any interest in being friends with non-Jews. Jesus might save you (since you are the house pets of the children) but that does not make him your friend dear non-Jews.
You are second to the Jews in the eyes of Jesus so please never forget your place in the kingdom of god.
Bishop Barron: love your videos and your "Catholicism" series.Please stop talking about anti-Pope Bergoglio.
That's quite a claim. Have you talked to a confessor about how you feel?
I am not sure the Church is advanced by being an apologist for the Pope. I would rather deal with the power of Jesus, the Son of the living God. As far as Frances...I have many doubts.
I'm waiting for brother Tim_Spangler. He has challenged me to be prepared with an answer more than anyone on the internet!
ryeis1 This is Bishop Barron's channel. You may have to wait a long time.
Oh he pops up on just about every Catholic video I've ever watched and repeats the same verses and arguments. He challenges me to articulate deeper theology in a palpable way. If no one ever gets through to him, at least his presence has helped me become a better apologist!
ryeis1 You waste your time on that dude? He ignores replies when he doesn't have an answer anymore. How convenient! But if he makes you a better apologist, then God guide you.
Katrina Rhoda Diaz, I know, I know. He is persistent if nothing else. I only hope that if he never gets a clue, someone else might read my replies and not be mislead.
ryeis1 I've had several discussions with Mr. Spangler. He isn't that deep a thinker. You need to be well versed in the faith because that's what a Catholic should be. Spangler will challenge you until you pin his ears back with the truth of the faith. Then he melts away. He's a protestant. He can't defend his beliefs.
I hate how you called the fiat a "provocative" move
I don't like Pope Francis. His behaviour , speeches, statements are annoying. After Vatican II, everything is going downward , churches are not like churches but like an entertaining hall or people's own living room - chatting, socializing, the Sacramental rituals are simplified or make-up rituals, the Tabunacle is placed aside but the chair of the priest is placed in the centre like he is God instead, priests saying Mass without zeal like doing a routine job. Priests, please don't always blame the lay Catholic , who are sheep without shepherd , please be virtuous and act as what GOD called you for!!!
Clown car for a 🤡
Did he say Preaching ? I have never seen a Catholic Priest preach. I was raised Catholic, sorry to say. Human tradition, hypocrisy, Idolatry, drunkenness, child abuse...
Did he say Preaching ? In what way could you ever be righteous enough to say GOD .