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Why You Should Read C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce"

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


In my capacity as regional bishop of the Santa Barbara pastoral region, which co...
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Daniel Berrigan and Non-Violence

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By Father Barron


Last week Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. passed away at the age of 94. Though many yo...
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Why You Need Spiritual Food

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By Father Barron


Every third summer, the Catholic lectionary provides a series of readings for Su...
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The Death of God and the Loss of Human Dignity

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By Father Barron


I am sure by now that many of you have seen the appalling hidden-camera videos o...
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Love, Tolerance, and the Making of Distinctions

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By Father Barron | June 2015


Last week, I wrote a piece on Bruce Jenner's transformation into Caitlyn Jenner....
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The Parable of the Talents

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By Father Barron


The attendance at our daily Mundelein Seminary on Labor Day weekend was sparse. ...
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Revisiting the Argument from Motion

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By Father Barron


One of the unintended but happy consequences of the emergence of the new atheism...
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The Danger of Soft Atheism

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By Father Barron


A very instructive exchange between Gary Gutting, a philosophy professor at Notr...
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Father Barron

Why Jesus is God: A Response to Bart Ehrman

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By Father Barron


Well, it’s Easter time, and that means that the mainstream media and publishing ...
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Father Barron

What is Our Fundamental Problem?

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


The first reading for Mass on the first Sunday of Lent this year, taken from Gen...
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Father Barron

Priest, Prophet and King

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


A classic characterization of Jesus is that he ispriest, prophet, and king.Aspri...
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Father Barron

"Why Goodness Depends on God"

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


One of the commonest observations made by opponents of religion is that we don’t...
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Hannah Arendt

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


The appearance of an art house film on the philosopher Hannah Arendt has sparked...
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Your Life is Not About You

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


Time Magazine’s recent cover story “The Childfree Life” has generated a good dea...
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Why Faith is Indeed a Light

Bishop Barron


In “new” atheist and secularist circles today, faith is regularly ridiculed. It ...
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World War Z and the Council of Trent

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


There were a number of reasons why I liked “World War Z,” the film based on Max ...
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Superman, General Zod, and God

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


I didn’t really care for the latest cinematic iteration of the Superman myth. Li...
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The Preachings of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron`


The appearance of yet another film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s "The Great G...
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Sympathy for the Devil: What happens when Love turns into tolerance

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


Some years ago, The New Yorker ran a cartoon that perfectly lampooned the loopy ...
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The Adventure of Classical Morality

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


One of the most significant fault lines in Western culture opened up in the sixt...
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This New Francis

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


I had an excellent vantage point for the presentation of Pope Francis to the wor...
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To Evangelize through Beauty

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


In his masterpiece Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh implicitly lays out a prog...
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The Hobbit and the Gospel

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


Like Star Wars, The Divine Comedy, and Moby Dick,  J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit i...
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Father Barron

Resisting an Aggressive Secularism

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


It was with barely concealed delight that “Chicago Sun-Times” columnist Neil Ste...
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Father Barron

Why the Sciences will never Disprove the Existence of God

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


Given the ruminations of Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, on...
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Father Barron

Revisiting the Spiritual Warfare

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


In the sixth chapter of St. Mark’s Gospel, we find the account of Jesus sending ...
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Father Barron

The Great Both/And of Catholic Social Teaching

Bishop Barron
By Father Barron


For many on the left, Paul Ryan is a menace, the very embodiment of cold, indiff...
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