Keep Holy Days Holy
So, this all started with making a quick meme about something I felt passionate about and then quickly realized I could not summarize what I meant by it in a sentence or two. I remember listening to a sermon by Bishop Barron probably a few years ago now and was struck by the phrase, “No more dumbed-down Catholicism.” While I don’t think living by this statement is by any means the solution to all of our problems, it should be the tip of the iceberg. There is a trickle down effect here. In an August 2023 interview with EWTN, Bishop Barron stated, “My generation got a dumbed-down Catholicism and it’s been a pastoral disaster.” It’s true, once you start eroding any element of faith and/or Church teaching, the rot can set in. Following this interview the National Catholic Reporter (a source I generally stay away from) was critical of the standpoint taken by Bp. Barron, ...