Recently, Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota, whose Word on Fire ministry has made him one of the Catholic Church’s most prominent online voices, has been arguing in various venues that the “dumbing down” of Catholicism has stymied rather than enhanced the Church’s efforts at evangelization in the modern West. The dumbed down Catholicism on offer today in many Catholic parishes and even more Catholic schools and universities, as defined by Barron, emphasizes social justice as divorced from the rest of... Read more