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Word on Fire

Martin Luther King and the Religious Motivation for Social Change

July 14, 2020
By Bishop Robert Barron
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Racial Justice, Word on Fire

It is indisputably clear that there are severe moral deficits in our society that must be addressed, but the best way to do so is from within a moral and finally religious framework.

Why “What are the Bishops Doing About it?” is the Wrong Question

June 27, 2020
By Bishop Robert Barron
Syndicated Columnist
Filed Under: Commentary, Racial Justice, Word on Fire

Great Catholic lawyers, great Catholic politicians, great Catholic university professors, great Catholic physicians and nurses, great Catholic investors and financiers, great Catholic law enforcement officers, great Catholic writers and critics, great Catholic entertainers, each in his or her special area of competence, is meant to bring Christ to the society and the culture.

The quarantine’s three lessons about the Church

May 1, 2020
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Coronavirus, Word on Fire

So Catholics, don’t get discouraged. Rather, use this time of deprivation and abstention to awaken a deeper love for the Church in its Eucharistic, symbiotic, and incarnational distinctiveness.

The One Pope

January 3, 2020
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire

I would have been happy to watch four hours of a film that was as honest and insightful about Joseph Ratzinger as it was about Jorge Mario Bergoglio.

One cheer for George Will’s ‘The Conservative Sensibility’

August 7, 2019
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire

Will gets some important things right, but he gets some even more basic things quite wrong.

The USCCB Meeting, Jordan Peterson, and the “Nones”

June 18, 2019
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire

What is particularly sad to me is that the commentariat, especially in regard to religion, has become so polarized and ideologically driven that the most elementary distinctions aren’t made and the most broad-brush analyses are commonplace.

Wake Up: The real danger posed by the California confession bill

May 15, 2019
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire

Catholics should, of course, rise up in strenuous protest against this very aggressive incursion—but so should anyone who cares about the freedom of religion in our society.

Seeing abortion

April 18, 2019
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Blog, Word on Fire

In 1850, lots of good and thoughtful people defended the institution of slavery. Now, only insane people would. In 2019, lots of decent and thoughtful people defend the pro-choice position. One can only hope that these recent laws, and this viscerally disturbing film, will hasten the day when only insane people would.

Frank Gehry and the quest for transcendence

March 7, 2019
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire

The Church ought to sing the transcendence of God to Frank Gehry as it once sang it to Giotto, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Dante, Gaudí, and the architect of Chartres Cathedral. 

New York, abortion and a short route to chaos

January 29, 2019
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire

Abandoning the convictions of one’s conscience in the exercise of one’s public duties is precisely equivalent to “I’m personally opposed but unwilling to take concrete action to instantiate my opposition.”

Talking to some young Jesuits about social justice and evangelization

January 10, 2019
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Social Justice, Word on Fire

I told my young Jesuit conversation partners that they ought to follow the prompt of our Jesuit pope and go not just to the economic margins but to the “existential margins”—that is to say, to those who have lost the faith, lost any contact with God, who have not heard the Good News.

Tolkien, Chesterton, and the Adventure of Mission

December 18, 2018
By Bishop Robert Barron
Filed Under: Commentary, Word on Fire

We Christians don’t stay in hobbit holes; we go on adventure.

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