Why You Should Read C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce" Bishop Barron In my capacity as regional bishop of the Santa Barbara pastoral region, which co... Read More
Daniel Berrigan and Non-Violence Bishop Barron Last week Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. passed away at the age of 94. Though many yo... Read More
Why You Need Spiritual Food Bishop Barron Every third summer, the Catholic lectionary provides a series of readings for Su... Read More
The Death of God and the Loss of Human Dignity Bishop Barron I am sure by now that many of you have seen the appalling hidden-camera videos o... Read More
Love, Tolerance, and the Making of Distinctions Bishop Barron Last week, I wrote a piece on Bruce Jenner's transformation into Caitlyn Jenner.... Read More
The Parable of the Talents Bishop Barron The attendance at our daily Mundelein Seminary on Labor Day weekend was sparse. ... Read More
Revisiting the Argument from Motion Bishop Barron One of the unintended but happy consequences of the emergence of the new atheism... Read More
The Danger of Soft Atheism Bishop Barron A very instructive exchange between Gary Gutting, a philosophy professor at Notr... Read More
Why Jesus is God: A Response to Bart Ehrman Bishop Barron Well, it’s Easter time, and that means that the mainstream media and publishing ... Read More
What is Our Fundamental Problem? Bishop Barron The first reading for Mass on the first Sunday of Lent this year, taken from Gen... Read More
Priest, Prophet and King Bishop Barron A classic characterization of Jesus is that he ispriest, prophet, and king.Aspri... Read More
"Why Goodness Depends on God" Bishop Barron One of the commonest observations made by opponents of religion is that we don’t... Read More
Hannah Arendt Bishop Barron The appearance of an art house film on the philosopher Hannah Arendt has sparked... Read More
Your Life is Not About You Bishop Barron Time Magazine’s recent cover story “The Childfree Life” has generated a good dea... Read More
Why Faith is Indeed a Light Bishop Barron In “new” atheist and secularist circles today, faith is regularly ridiculed. It ... Read More
World War Z and the Council of Trent Bishop Barron There were a number of reasons why I liked “World War Z,” the film based on Max ... Read More
Superman, General Zod, and God Bishop Barron I didn’t really care for the latest cinematic iteration of the Superman myth. Li... Read More
The Preachings of F. Scott Fitzgerald Bishop Barron The appearance of yet another film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great G... Read More
Sympathy for the Devil: What happens when Love turns into tolerance Bishop Barron Some years ago, The New Yorker ran a cartoon that perfectly lampooned the loopy ... Read More
The Adventure of Classical Morality Bishop Barron One of the most significant fault lines in Western culture opened up in the sixt... Read More
This New Francis Bishop Barron I had an excellent vantage point for the presentation of Pope Francis to the wor... Read More
To Evangelize through Beauty Bishop Barron In his masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh implicitly lays out a prog... Read More
The Hobbit and the Gospel Bishop Barron Like Star Wars, The Divine Comedy, and Moby Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit i... Read More
Resisting an Aggressive Secularism Bishop Barron It was with barely concealed delight that “Chicago Sun-Times” columnist Neil Ste... Read More
Why the Sciences will never Disprove the Existence of God Bishop Barron Given the ruminations of Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, on... Read More
Revisiting the Spiritual Warfare Bishop Barron In the sixth chapter of St. Mark’s Gospel, we find the account of Jesus sending ... Read More
The Great Both/And of Catholic Social Teaching Bishop Barron For many on the left, Paul Ryan is a menace, the very embodiment of cold, indiff... Read More