Bishop Barron criticizes new Portuguese cardinal’s comments on conversion to Christ
July 14, 2023
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CWN Editor's Note: “I’m scheduled to give five presentations at World Youth Day in Lisbon, and I would like to assure Bishop Aguiar that every single one of them is designed to evangelize,” Bishop Robert Barron said in response to Cardinal-designate Américo Alves Aguiar’s statement that “we don’t want to convert the young people to Christ” at World Youth Day.
The Church “most certainly does maintain that evangelization is its central, pivotal, most defining work,” Bishop Barron added. “When any Catholic institution, ministry, or outreach forgets its evangelical purpose, it has lost its soul.”
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Posted by: ewaughok -
Jul. 14, 2023 10:15 PM ET USA
I’m sure that at World Youth Day, Bishop Barron and Cardinal Aguiar will be photographed shaking hands and laughing heartily. I’m also sure Cardinal Aguiar can find some weaselly way of chatting about evangelization without ever meaning converting anyone (let alone the youth) to Christ. I note that Bishop Barron does not explicitly challenge the statement of the Cardinal …
