Papacy

Bishop Barron on Spending Time with His Spiritual Father

by Bishop Robert Barron . February 13, 2020 .

In this new video commentary, I reflect on my “ad limina” visit with Pope Francis on January 27. It would be impossible to summarize what turned out to be a three-hour conversation with the Holy Father, but there were three dominant themes that emerged.

Spending Time with My Spiritual Father

by Bishop Robert Barron . January 28, 2020 .

I write these words from the Eternal City of Rome, whither I’ve come with my brother bishops from Region 11 (California, Nevada, and Hawaii) for our ad limina visit. This is a regular and canonically required trip to pray at the limina apostolorum (the threshold of the Apostles), the tombs…

Pasando tiempo con mi padre espiritual

by Bishop Robert Barron . January 28, 2020 .

Escribo estas palabras desde la Ciudad Eterna, Roma, a la que he venido con mis hermanos obispos de la Región 11 (California, Nevada y Hawai) para nuestra visita ad limina. Se trata de un viaje regular y obligatorio canónicamente, para rezar en el limina apostolorum (el umbral de los Apóstoles),…

The One Pope

by Bishop Robert Barron . January 2, 2020 .

The new and much-ballyhooed Netflix film The Two Popes should, by rights, be called The One Pope, for it presents a fairly nuanced, textured, and sympathetic portrait of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Pope Francis) and a complete caricature of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI). This imbalance fatally undermines the movie, whose…

El único papa

by Bishop Robert Barron . January 2, 2020 .

Los dos papas, la nueva y muy aclamada película de Netflix, debería llamarse, por derecho, El único papa, ya que presenta un retrato bastante matizado, texturizado y simpático de Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Papa Francisco) y una caricatura completa de Joseph Ratzinger (Papa Benedicto XVI). Este desequilibrio socava fatalmente la película,…