![]() ![]() Chesterton’s enduring masterpiece Orthodoxy (1908), which he says (and many, many others can say) “truly re-arranged the furniture of my mind.” Chesterton’s view was that Catholicism maintains its beliefs “side by side like two strong colors, red and white. (The companion volume to Catholicism is a remarkable if understandably overlooked book published in conjunction with the release of the DVD.) With his new collection of short essays, Vibrant Paradoxes, Barron again presents an accessible, popular, but uncompromisingly orthodox vision of Catholicism.īarron begins by reflecting on the influence of G.K. And like Sheen, Barron is a lucid writer whose books will outlive everything else he has done. Whereas Sheen used radio and television, Barron is online with podcasts and in DVD form with his masterly documentaries Catholicism, Catholicism: The New Evangelization, and the forthcoming Catholicism: The Pivotal Players, Part I. Like Sheen, Barron adroitly employs all the available technologies to evangelize. ![]() Like the Venerable Sheen, Barron is an erudite Thomist scholar with a gift for popularizing without in any way watering down the Catholic faith. Sheenīishop Robert Barron is the Bishop Fulton Sheen of our time. ![]() “There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.”- Bishop Fulton J. ![]()
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