Pope Francis Encyclical, DILEXIT NOS (Oct 24, 2024)
ENCYCLICAL LETTERDILEXIT NOSOF THE HOLY FATHERFRANCISON THE HUMAN AND DIVINE LOVEOF THE HEART OF JESUS CHRISTLink: DILEXIT NOS“HE LOVED US”, Saint Paul says of Christ (cf. Rom 8:37), in order to make us realize that nothing can ever “separate us” from that love (Rom 8:39). Paul could say this with certainty because Jesus himself had told his disciples, […]
Podcast: Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons
- The Place of Right Praise November 5, 2025Friends, this Sunday we’re celebrating, with the whole Church, the dedication of the great cathedral of Rome: the Lateran Basilica. You could argue very persuasively that this see church of the pope is the most important of the four major basilicas in Rome; it is the great temple of Catholicism worldwide. This is why the […]Bishop Robert Barron
- Why We Pray for All Souls October 30, 2025Friends, All Souls Day, November 2, falls on a Sunday this year, so we can really spend some time reflecting on this wonderful feast, which means so much to Catholic people. Why do we pray for the souls in purgatory? I wonder if I could begin by reflecting on why we speak of the “soul”—this higher principle breathed […]Bishop Robert Barron
- Are You Revolving Around God—Or God Around You? October 21, 2025Friends, for this Thirtieth Sunday of Ordinary Time, we are treated to the wonderful and deeply challenging parable of the Pharisee and the publican from Luke 18. We are meant to see in this deceptively simple story a basic and clarifying principle in the spiritual order—namely, that the ego is meant to revolve around God, not God around the […]Bishop Robert Barron