This bishop claims to have found the solution to bring back people who have left Catholicism. According to him, the main problem was Vatican 2, which dumbed down Catholicism (imagine, dumbing down the stupid) because it made Catholicism more effeminate, so he's bringing back the manliness to the church.
So watch out, atheists, because ex-Catholics are going back to their religion.
So there you go: with the help of Ben Shapiro, shroud of Turin, Joe Rogan and Dante's Inferno (wait, but Dante was on the Vatican's forbidden list of books until the Vatican 2 - something that he abhors) he's bringing the Catholics back to the church.
So watch out, atheists, because ex-Catholics are going back to their religion.
Quote:‘Dumbed-Down Catholicism Was a Disaster’
America’s most watched bishop, Robert Barron, is scouting out a new future for Christianity.
Barron told me that he senses an “extraordinary hunger for God” in America, but “beige Catholicism” won’t satisfy it. That’s his term for the Church that many American Catholics have known in the 60 years since Vatican II: simplistic and relevant homilies, felt banners, acoustic guitars—all meant to make the 2,000-year-old faith fit in with contemporary Western culture.
“To be frank about it, when I was in the seminary, it was more of a feminized approach,” he recalled. “We did a lot of sitting in a circle and talking about our feelings.”
His uncompromising presentation of the Christian story—and his willingness to discuss it with polarizing figures such as Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro—resonates especially among young men.
“Dumbed-down Catholicism was a disaster, pastorally,” Barron, who has a doctorate from the Catholic Institute of Paris, told me.
Barron plumbs topics that confound the secular world, such as transubstantiation and the Shroud of Turin. He wants to prove that Catholicism is not just another lifestyle choice based on the Golden Rule.
YouTube is the heart of his ministry. “The Millennial male who is listening to Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, all those podcasts and YouTube channels—now, through Bishop Barron, they are being exposed to a fresh take,” Brierley said. “The era of them just listening to Sam Harris’s take on religion is over.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...ch/680953/
So there you go: with the help of Ben Shapiro, shroud of Turin, Joe Rogan and Dante's Inferno (wait, but Dante was on the Vatican's forbidden list of books until the Vatican 2 - something that he abhors) he's bringing the Catholics back to the church.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
