
Last week I was with my Word on Fire team in Ireland, filming for the
Catholicism series. At the hotel, I had picked up a copy of the “Irish Independent,” a mainstream newspaper, and I was paging through it while we traveled through the countryside. I came across a small article on the ever-developing Mel Gibson situation, bearing the title “Wait—It just gets better and better.” The author laid out the gory details concerning Gibson’s recent drunken forays into alleged sexism, anti-semitism, wife-beating, etc., and he concluded that under American law the disgraced actor could (and should) be prosecuted. Then, the brief article ended with this breath-taking and utterly bizarre remark: “Who knew Catholicism could be so interesting?”...
(This commentary from Father Barron is also featured on the Chicago Tribune's Seeker Blog. Take a look at it here.)