I know this will get a lot of hate because there are both trads and lefties that love to hate on Barron/WOF, but I hope this goes well. It seems that Barron has been one of the most effective evangelists out there bringing converts into the Church in the English world (probably only behind Fr. Mike Schmitz). The digital world is huge and…
I know this will get a lot of hate because there are both trads and lefties that love to hate on Barron/WOF, but I hope this goes well. It seems that Barron has been one of the most effective evangelists out there bringing converts into the Church in the English world (probably only behind Fr. Mike Schmitz). The digital world is huge and only getting bigger, the Church absolutely could use more priests who can dedicate their time to online evangelization.
In addition, a group pursuing digital evangelization in community, with a governance structure, etc can help protect against some of the lack of accountability, self reliance, cults of personality & general nuttiness the internet encourages
I would suggest that Bishop Barron has been more influential than Fr. Schmitz, mainly because it was "Catholicism" that helped pique my interest while I was at university in 2012 😁
There's a pretty funny episode of Too Far With Laura Horn about the horseshoe theory of trad and leftist catholics. "Most cringe member of the clergy?" (The trad and the leftist respond in unison) "Bishop Robert Barron! Actually the whole USCCB!"
Please -- the USCCB stands on its own in terms of cringe. And Horn's attempt to portray Bishop Barron as the flip side of the USCCB coin is itself cringeworthy.
I know this will get a lot of hate because there are both trads and lefties that love to hate on Barron/WOF, but I hope this goes well. It seems that Barron has been one of the most effective evangelists out there bringing converts into the Church in the English world (probably only behind Fr. Mike Schmitz). The digital world is huge and only getting bigger, the Church absolutely could use more priests who can dedicate their time to online evangelization.
In addition, a group pursuing digital evangelization in community, with a governance structure, etc can help protect against some of the lack of accountability, self reliance, cults of personality & general nuttiness the internet encourages
Very true. There have been plenty of celebrity priests that have had very sad downfalls. Would prefer not to see any more of those.
I would suggest that Bishop Barron has been more influential than Fr. Schmitz, mainly because it was "Catholicism" that helped pique my interest while I was at university in 2012 😁
There's a pretty funny episode of Too Far With Laura Horn about the horseshoe theory of trad and leftist catholics. "Most cringe member of the clergy?" (The trad and the leftist respond in unison) "Bishop Robert Barron! Actually the whole USCCB!"
Please -- the USCCB stands on its own in terms of cringe. And Horn's attempt to portray Bishop Barron as the flip side of the USCCB coin is itself cringeworthy.