new evangelization Archive

Bishop Bobby Barron: faker or faithful?

Robert Barron, to my mind, is the quintessential poster boy for the so-called “New Evangelization.” He has all the right qualifications: He is a camera-ready media creation with practically nothing of substance to offer beyond sugar-coated platitudes packaged in Catholic language. He is …

Cardinal Marx has a point

Recently reported comments offered by Cardinal Marx of Munich—President of the German bishops’ conference—have raised no small number of traditional eyebrows. According to Catholic World News: In an interview with the French Jesuit journal Etudes, Cardinal Marx says that the phrase “new evangelization” …