WATCH: Video of Pope Francis New Encyclical, FRATELLI TUTTI
“Looking at others as brothers and sisters to save ourselves and the world..” The message of Pope Francis’s new social encyclical: no one is saved alone. It proposes a fraternal society so that society is not overrun by war, hatred, violence, indifference and new walls....
Podcast: Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermons
- The Biblical Vision of the Family October 1, 2024Friends, the first reading from Genesis and the Gospel from Mark this week are of great importance. They have to do with what we call Christian anthropology—the biblical understanding of who we are—and most specifically, in relation to marriage and family. This question of how we define ourselves is of course on the minds of many people today, and the […]Bishop Robert Barron
- Whoever Is Not Against Us Is For Us September 25, 2024Friends, the first reading and Gospel this Sunday have to do with the Church at war with itself. The devil is the scatterer, the divider, and one of his favorite tricks is to take the Church—which is meant to be an instrument of the Gospel in the world—and to turn us against one another.Bishop Robert Barron
- The Ladder Doesn’t Matter September 17, 2024Friends, why was the story of Jesus with the little children, versions of which appear in the three synoptic Gospels, so vividly remembered by the first Christians? I think they intuited that it got very close to the heart of Jesus’ teaching. The way Mark sets up his account of this story in our Gospel […]Bishop Robert Barron