


Originally a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago and rector of Chicago’s seminary, Barron rose to fame in 2011 when Word on Fire, a Catholic media organization he created in 2000, released a 10-part documentary, Catholicism, that ran on PBS stations and attracted considerable positive attention from Catholics and non-Catholics. But Bishop Robert Barron could pose a historic first contradiction between those two mandates for bishops. But also, a bishop should “ strive to make use of the various media at hand nowadays for proclaiming Christian doctrine.” In a 2,000-year-old church, it’s very rare to come across something genuinely new.

(RNS) - In the Roman Catholic Church, a bishop is meant to be “ bound” to his diocese as a husband to his wife.
