Tragedy sparks an awareness of contingency, and an awareness of contingency gives rise to a deeper sense of God.
Bishop Robert Barron
Bishop Robert Barron
Robert Emmet Barron is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has served as bishop of the Diocese of Winona–Rochester since 2022. He is the founder of the Catholic ministerial organization Word on Fire, and was the host of Catholicism, a documentary TV series about Catholicism that aired on PBS Poco después de su ordenación, se desempeñó como pastor asociado en la parroquia St. Paul of the Cross en Park Ridge, Illinois. Más tarde, fue nombrado para la facultad de teología del Seminario de Mundelein, y se desempeñó como profesor invitado en la Universidad de Notre Dame y en la Universidad Pontificia de Santo Tomás de Aquino en Roma, así como académico residente en el Pontificio Colegio de América del Norte en el Vaticano. Es fundador de Wood on Fire Catholic Ministries. El Obpo. Barron es un conocido escritor y aparece con frecuencia en programas de televisión en los Estados Unidos.
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Blaise Pascal said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
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The new and much-ballyhooed Netflix film The Two Popes should, by rights, be called The One Pope
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I am sure that every religious person, every believer in God, at some point wonders, “Why doesn’t God just straighten everything out?”
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Last week, Cardinal Roger Etchegaray passed away. Perhaps his was not a household name, but this very decent man made a substantive …
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There is, to be sure, a stress within the Biblical tradition that God is radically other
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Albert Einstein wrote a letter in which he dismissed belief in God as superstitious
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There is a common, and I’ll admit somewhat understandable, interpretation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy that sees the great …