Here’s a new video by Fr. Barron that ranks as perhaps my all-time favorite. He asks a very important question: what’s the best evangelistic tool that we have? Is it arguments? Ethics? Doctrines? Appeals to authority? No. It’s joy. Joy is a lure that draws people to wonder about its source. When it’s most charged …
A YouTubing priest who loves religion answers a young man who hates it: Fr. Barron does a bang-up job explaining why this video has gone viral. The video, he notes, is the result of the American emphasis on ‘freedom’. Properly understood, freedom is a great thing. Freedom from oppression, indignity, bondage, and sin are all noble …
Also check out Marc Barnes tribute to Hitchens’ admittedly brilliant style. Hitchens may have been a poor philosopher and theologian, but the man could write. Whenever I read his poetic flourish, quotable wit, and keen British humor I thought, “This man is exactly what C.S. Lewis would have been had he remained an atheist.”
Yesterday was one of the greatest Marian feast days in the Church calendar, the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. What’s amazing about this icon, besides its mysterious origin, is the fact that this one image effectively converted almost all of Central America from barbaric paganism to Christianity. Listen to Fr. Robert Barron (who else?) …
